Portuguese General Election

[MaxQue]

The left makes the necessary cuts when they are necessary for a country's survival. The neoliberal right makes cuts just for the sake of making cuts, in spite of common sense, because they are a bunch of stupid hacks blinded by their silly ideology. That is the difference, Miles.

  Actually the neo-liberal right believes big government slows economic growth and having a leaner more efficient government allows for more growth.  They believe in privatization since they believe most things are better run by the private sector.  In cases like electricity or postal service it may be debatable and thus why the right in some countries outside Europe are reluctant to touch those two, but for airlines and telecommunications, there is little evidence that state ownership is preferable.  Likewise under both left and right regimes, all European countries have some form of private involvement in health care and most have private schools and universities, otherwise the traditional left is for government monopolies, not government involvement, but with competition from the private sector.  And never mind, they must folllow EU rules so in electricity or postal service, monopolies are illegal under EU rules as are pretty much all public sector monopolies.

Who wasted 1 billion for the G-8, while France did it for 14 millions? A fake lake in Toronto?
Who wasted all the 50+ million surplus left by the Liberals? Surplus was all wasted before the begnning of the crisis.
Who is wanting to but planes at an unknown cost, even when the US begin to doubt?
Which American party created an even bigger deficit with two wars and immoderate giant tax cuts?

Answer: It is not the left, it is the right in all those cases.

Sure, in some places, there are downright dishonest. Like France. The right says than they manage well, because the local governments are in a very bad situation, because the left leads them.

Well, the main cause of the problems of the local authories is than the France government dumps more and more duties and functions on the local authority, without giving them the money to fulfull them.

Being in a deficit because of offering services is better than being in deficit because of a too big tax cut, in my eyes.