Kitchen tables and cabinet tables

Its probably slipped most people's minds by now but Jack went on and on and on and on about the kitchen table during last fall's election campaign. Then in December he had brief delusions of sitting at the cabinet table. Some will say our politicians have wasted the last six weeks through bickering but I'm not so sure. Down here in Florida we listen to US television fairly regularly and get bombarded with all the wonderful things The One is going to do to resurrect the US economy. The premise is always that there is something WRONG that can be FIXED.

Here's a thought: what if what was wrong was two years ago when property inflation was still ramping up driven by a mountain of consumer debt or what if what was wrong was a year ago when commodity inflation went through the roof for no particular reason other than because it did? What if right now the market and the world economy is performing exactly as it should? What if all the government meddling and interference is just so much more tax dollars pissed away to employ low lifes to harass us in airports and build pork barrel projects in fat cat constituencies?

Maybe as Canadians we are blessed that our politicians have been busy scrapping over who gets to sit on which side of the House. Maybe we'd be further ahead if the whole works of them took a couple of years off. Its probably too late though. Who'd have thought even six months ago that we would see a Stephen Harper government introduce a $85 billion deficit budget? Ignatieff certainly doesn't have any alternatives to offer. He may be the smartest Lib in Canada - he's certainly smart enough to know he doesn't want to be in government right now. Maybe we'd be better off if none of them were able to govern for a year or two.