National Post: Ralph Klein to blame for Alberta deficits

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Had successive Conservative governments governed with logic and an eye to the future as opposed to dogma
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA omg that's hilarious. That's all the NDP has to offer is dogma.


If you think the deficits under the Conservatives were bad, you ain't seen nothing yet.
 

petros

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Poor farm labourer doesn't understand the difference between "debt" and "deficits". I might just have to school him like I did on tax credits.
I never new you were a farmer labourer? Is that what you do when the county lays you off from cleaning toilets every winter?
 

mentalfloss

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Some people just can't handle the fact that balancing the books at the cost of necessary services just means deficits and taxes later.

Poor curmudgeons.

Maybe you'll get another chance next election.
 

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The point is correct regardless of the source.

Had successive Conservative governments governed with logic and an eye to the future as opposed to dogma and how high on the hog we can live today, Alberta would not be in such a predicament. Pathetically, those same believers will now blame all this on the NDP and whine about the evils of Socialism.
uhuh And when the Dippers double the province's debt, drive businesses and long-term homeowners out of the province, and create a gargantuan government to employ the people it put out of LEGITIMATE jobs like the 3 Dipper governments did here ....
But maybe all the potholes in Calgary will get fixed and all the new government workers can drive around smoothly.
 

mentalfloss

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It's in the OP

uhuh And when the Dippers double the province's debt, drive businesses and long-term homeowners out of the province, and create a gargantuan government to employ the people it put out of LEGITIMATE jobs like the 3 Dipper governments did here ....
But maybe all the potholes in Calgary will get fixed and all the new government workers can drive around smoothly.

Fear mongering.
 

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It's in the OP...

Actually, it isn't. My youngest kids just graduated this June and their schooling was quite good so what services did I lose? We still spend more on program spending than most, if not all, other provinces. Sounds like the fear mongering has been on your end.
 

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One of the reasons doctors, nurses and health-care professionals in Alberta have such high salaries is that so many of them left the province when Ralph Klein cut public service spending by 20 per cent. A few years later something had to be done to bring them back as well as recruit medical professionals from other provinces and countries.

It was a move meant to compensate for the mistakes of an earlier Tory government.

There’s another compelling reason: Alberta has the highest weekly wages in the country. This is mostly due to the fierce competition for labour in the oilsands sector but it affects the whole economy. It makes it more difficult to recruit people for any job if they can move into the oilsands sector or any of the related industries.


http://m.thestar.com/#/article/opin...-on-public-services-as-oil-price-crashes.html
 

Cannuck

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One of the reasons doctors, nurses and health-care professionals in Alberta have such high salaries is that so many of them left the province when Ralph Klein cut public service spending by 20 per cent. A few years later something had to be done to bring them back as well as recruit medical professionals from other provinces and countries.

It was a move meant to compensate for the mistakes of an earlier Tory government.

There’s another compelling reason: Alberta has the highest weekly wages in the country. This is mostly due to the fierce competition for labour in the oilsands sector but it affects the whole economy. It makes it more difficult to recruit people for any job if they can move into the oilsands sector or any of the related industries.


http://m.thestar.com/#/article/opin...-on-public-services-as-oil-price-crashes.html

Does that mean you can't answer my question?
 

petros

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One of the reasons doctors, nurses and health-care professionals in Alberta have such high salaries is that so many of them left the province when Ralph Klein cut public service spending by 20 per cent. A few years later something had to be done to bring them back as well as recruit medical professionals from other provinces and countries.

It was a move meant to compensate for the mistakes of an earlier Tory government.

There’s another compelling reason: Alberta has the highest weekly wages in the country. This is mostly due to the fierce competition for labour in the oilsands sector but it affects the whole economy. It makes it more difficult to recruit people for any job if they can move into the oilsands sector or any of the related industries.


http://m.thestar.com/#/article/opin...-on-public-services-as-oil-price-crashes.html

1400 health care workers gone under Motley so far.

You should ask one of them when they do get in the black

Canada's National Debt Clock : The Canadian Taxpayers Federation

British Columbia's Debt is $65,059,613,013.69 and counting.

 

mentalfloss

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If you guys are going to be this stubborn it will just continue the downfall of the CPC.

Just keep channelling that Wally n CDNBear hate while the progressives keep pwning you.