Nobody's Ever Happy

So, the budget came out yesterday, and the fallout is still rolling through the media. Generally speaking, we pretty much got the result that should have been expected.

Absolutely no one was happy.

The Conservatives didn't put forth the budget they had originally intended.

The Liberals didn't get into power through a political back door.

The NDP didn't get a person in power that they could manipulate like a puppet.

And the Bloc Quebecois didn't get a leader who is a sympathizer.

Oh, and don't forget - the environmentalists aren't happy, the economists aren't happy, the poverty advocates aren't happy... generally speaking, I don't think anyone's happy.

Thing is - I don't know that there's anything that could have been done. Just like Barack Obama would be hard pressed to make things worse in the U.S., well, is there any sort of budget that would have left a majority of people in Canada satisfied? Sure, they could have put extra money towards certain areas, but only at the expense of other ones - but then, that's never acknowledged by the special interest groups.

Nope, it's all about them, and if it's not good for them, then it's clearly not good at all.

I wonder when the "Me" society is going to realize that this sort of thinking is exactly what got us into trouble in the first place? If an economic meltdown greater than anything seen in the last quarter of century doesn't do it... I shudder to think what it would take...

~Guy