This editorial seems to ignore the past 13 years of debt, scandal, lies, and incompetence.  This government balances ONE budget (primarily on one-time money), and it's all rainbows and unicorns according to the Globe Editorial board.

We still have the largest non-sovereign debt in the world.  Now is the time to have been paying down the debt so that we are in better shape for the next economic slowdown (which we are overdue for).  Instead, we have brand new massive spending programs to buy votes.