{"id":491,"date":"2005-10-05T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=491"},"modified":"2005-10-05T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-06T03:11:00","slug":"king-ralph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"King Ralph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know things are bad in Ottawa when Ralph Goodale looks to Ralph Klein for inspiration. Yes, the federal government saw Ralph <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/money-for-nothing_22.html\">Klein&#8217;s &#8220;prosperity bonus<\/a>&#8220;, saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/calgarygrit.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/monday-roundup_26.html\">lackluster reaction of Albertans to it<\/a>, saw it get criticized as an uninspiring policy and said: &#8220;<em>gosh, maybe we should do that<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From now on, Canadians will get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20051005.wtaxx1005\/BNStory\/National\/\">money from Ottawa <\/a>whenever the surplus turns out to be larger than expected (no word yet on whether or not this kick back will be delivered in cash, in brown envelopes).<\/p>\n<p>Even though I trashed Klein for this, at least he&#8217;s in the position of having money to burn. Paul Martin has made a 25% Debt-to-GDP ratio his grand ambition (<em>yawn<\/em>) so refusing to pay down the debt seems like an odd course of action. It also seems like a rather haphazard way to shill out money for a guy who:<\/p>\n<p>a) Was a good Finance Minister<br \/>b) Has been accused of lacking vision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know things are bad in Ottawa when Ralph Goodale looks to Ralph Klein for inspiration. Yes, the federal government saw Ralph Klein&#8217;s &#8220;prosperity bonus&#8220;, saw the lackluster reaction of Albertans to it, saw it get criticized as an uninspiring policy and said: &#8220;gosh, maybe we should do that.&#8221; From now on, Canadians will get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}