Vaughn Palmer: Liberal explanations disguise reckless spending plans

VICTORIA — As Premier Christy Clark tells it, the B.C. Liberals were able this week  to match the NDP and Green parties dollar for dollar on some big ticket spending programs because of a windfall in provincial revenues.
“We have more money than we thought we did,” declared Clark by way of justifying a throne speech with two dozen significant policy reversals costing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. “The surplus is way bigger than we had predicted going i