At a speech in Saskatoon earlier this week Brad Wall joked his deficits are just like eating potato chips - "they're not very good for your long-term health, and bet you can't stop at just one" - but no one was laughing.

Saskatchewan families are failing to see the humour because of what the Wall government's fiscal incompetence means:

• A promised children's hospital won't be built;
• Residents are facing double digit power rate increases;
• Seniors will have to do without much needed long term care facilities that the government committed to building in 13 communities;
• Rural Saskatchewan hospitals are facing cuts and more doctor, diagnostic and lab technician shortages are expected;
• Municipalities will be forced to cancel several infrastructure projects after the Wall government cancelled a promised one per cent PST revenue sharing promise costing Saskatchewan communities hundreds of millions of dollars; and
• Promised education property tax relief is being reversed.

Hardly a laughing matter.

In spite of being blessed with the greatest economic boom in Saskatchewan history, Brad Wall's Conservatives have blown it - both literally and figuratively.  And ordinary Saskatchewan families are paying the price.

Brad Wall's mismanagement is no joke.  It's bad for the province's long-term fiscal health, and he has to be stopped after just one term.