text: Better to take our medicine and go through hard times. We did it before under Ralph and we came out much the better for it. Debt is a millstone around your neck. The lefties might not like the taste of the medicine but they better cowboy up and swallow or put on a life jacket and hope the NDP can continue to borrow their way out of debt.  They taken us from AAA down to A+ making interest payments high and in a climate where they are already rising.