This budget reminds me of the 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers fans cry of "Wait Til Next Year" as Dem Bums were trounced again by The New York Yankees.

Its all about tomorrow and like the Bums fans we stand to be disappointed when tomorrow finally arrives.

It is all fine to talk about debt to GDP ratio forgiving a government breaking its deficit promises by some 300% and giving us an estimated 30 more years of deficits instead of 2 more years as promised.

But if interest rates rise anywhere near historical levels, the interest on the rapidly accumulating debt will be a heavy burden on taxpayers and a major constrain on funding new and even existing programs and services.

And if US president Trump makes serious moves on the corporate tax front and on our trade relationship with the US, we shall wish that we had the necessary fiscal and tax room we would have had following the more prudent Harper fiscal strategy and plan.

And so far the new debt has gone to pandering not to productivity.