It may sound trite - but like father, like son. Both knew that in the short to medium term, voters are gullible enough to believe that you can borrow money to give people their baubles and entitlements. It runs it's course, they get thrown out and the Conservatives are invited in to clean up the mess. After one or two belt-tightening terms, a new generation starts to believe the "mean-spirited" nonsense - just about the time that we get the books back in order to intelligently move forward. In Ontario - Harris cleaned up the mess and turned it over to McGuinty Wynne. Now it will likely go back to Conservatives and it will not be a picnic to get out from under the mess that's left. Whether it's 4 or 8 years, there will be one heck of a mess when voters finally wise up to Trudeau.