Respecting the Institution

[cyberclark]

I have been criticized for the way I address Klein and the Alberta Conservative Government. I am reminded they are an institution which people have fought and died for in two world wars. Therefore the proper reverence and all possible courtesy should be extended to them.

My response:
I fully respect the institution and would guard it with my life. I do not respect the people who have stolen this institution for their own use; their own agenda and I will communicate with them accordingly.

They totally blew as in absconded with all the monies in the near sacred “Alberta Savings and Trust Fund”. If there was pressure put on the bottom line of the oil companies the fund was always there for them.

For 8 years funding for infrastructure as in roads, water treatment etc was under funded to a point of being nonexistent only to be put up as “private industry” projects inviting ATCO and the likes to take over our water and sewer in our cities and towns.

Health Care posed a threat for obscene oil profits so privatize it after deliberately under funding it for a dozen years. Chase off the Doctors and Nurses. Short University Funding forcing them to fill Doctor’s chairs from out of country to receive the higher revenue. After totally trashing the system scream “shortage” and “cost”. Run out the millions for “spin doctor” press releases.

The whole thrust of their policies has been to provide as large a profit margin for the energy companies as is possible. This is achieved on one part by charging the lowest royalties in the world on the Alberta resources. We could charge four times as much for royalties and still be the lowest rate in the world!Another part is to further subsidize these industries by charging the taxpayers for their natural gas; their electrical power lines and what ever else they may require of the base resource. In conjunction with the Federal Government they have succeeded in getting the oil companies a tax deduction for “future unknown losses.”

This crew has changed the electoral boundaries in this province allowing the rural vote 12 votes to 1 ratio over the urban vote. Challenged by Elections Canada they revamped the electoral boundaries to remain “just” legal.

They have taken the largest advantages we have in electrical production and distribution and turned it over to insiders at a loss of some 60 billions of dollars to Albertans! This was accomplished on a bed of deceit and lies while pushing the “good old boy” image of dear Ralph.

The Conservatives chose stone walling to discussion on their plans to totally privatize the health care system. Not just tweak it as they would have us believe.

The Alberta Conservative Government has practiced and continues to practice a program of misdirection and outright deceit of the general public.

These people are not the institution! They are in my mind gangsters who have taken over the resource and governance of this province and deserve absolutely no courtesy at any level. Respect is something earned!

They are creating a situation in which the nationalization of the resource industry and probably others, will gain more credibility. It is a dangerous path they lead us on!

John Clark

 

[Lotuslander]

I agree with your response. If that is the way you feel fine. What I woudl like to know is why Albertans only vote for incumbernt governments and have had essentially the same party in power for over seventy years? Social Credit and now for the past froty the Tories. For a province which is so keen on democratising the Senate they would do well to democratise their own Legislative Assembly first so that they actually ahve a competitive political system! What are Albertans thinking? Do they not believe in democracy or are they simply blinded by their good fortune?

 

[cyberclark]

Why Albertans vote conservative.

It is not that Albertan's vote in block for the Conservatives. When you look at the number of Albertan's who vote, the people not voting are the ones responsible for the Conservatives getting in!

Last election it was 23% of eligible voters actually cast a ballet!

The other thing that slants the vote is the Conservative extreme manipulation of the riding boundaries. They squeezed a few more conservative votes out of them than they should have an elections Canada made them adjust a couple.

There is a psychosis in Alberta also. It runs along the lines that my family has always voted Conservative. They give no heed at all to the fact that this is not the socially aware conservative government which was introduced into this country.

The conservatives back to Lougheed have always played to the rural vote. Lougheed would build prototypical hospitals all over his ridings just prior to an election. The fact that there were no doctors or nurses to work in them didn't matter. He also had a good support of the Edmonton Journal and Calgary Harold. They always put his picture next to the Birks Jewelers advertisement with the big diamond in it. A good sell!

What needs to be done to turn this around is to put the problems on the forefront and the circus behind. The NDP and the Liberals and Greens have an easy sell if they can build a positive program that will face up to the roomer mill.

1. We are not going to harm the oil industry in any way, we need it.
2. Where ever possible utilities that are necessary to sustain industry and life in general will remain in the hands of the Crown. If the existing utility companies show evidence of the exploitation of the rank and file of citizens to pay for export facilities, these industries will be taken over by the Crown.

3. We will put out aggressive plans and people to attract more industry to Alberta.

(Alberta is now dead in the water. There is no industry except oil and oil directly related)

4. We will review in detail and find out where the missing 60 billion dollar electrical transmission resource went to and do what we can to recover it.

The thing is the Conservatives do not in the least expect to be elected again even as an opposition! They will put their total privatization program through. They will end up killing people publicly. Whether or not the public notices or the press gives it coverage is another thing.

Klein is master of the Dog and Pony shows, that I have to give him.

Two weeks ago I busted him on privitizing water. This is an old plan of his with ATCO lined up to take ownership and charge rent on all the municipal lines and charge rent to pay for them.

Mr. Lougheed says ATCO will not work for less than 11% profit.
Considering these profits are cost plus with no audits, the price to consumers is going up 40% or more!

I think Klein and Company have more friends in the pipline business than they do in the Health Care business so he decided to bring up the Health Care to keep peoples mind off the Water privitiztion. He had to fight health care at one time or another but would have chose to leave it until after their convention.

I'm going to cover water in detail on my personal blog.
Alberta--The Details

 

[Alberta'sfinest]

RE: Respecting the Instit

Yah, its an uphill battle to try and point out how bad our government truly is. People think everything is going great here in alberta, but we're being screwed big time. The Klein government is a master at creating the problems and offering the solutions. People think we are doing so great here, but most of the companies are owned in the US and our wealth is being exported, stolen from us really. I just love how they tell us that health care is failing because it's unaffordable, and then they turn around and report a 7.4 billion dollar surplus. I think anyone who supports privatization of guarenteed industries like insurance, healthcare, and utilities should be shot. Private insurance is nothing more than a way for the rich to tax the poor really. The rich, often not even Canadians own the insurance companies. They provide us coverage at more than their losses, and then make money off our money by investing it and collecting profits from companies that offer unfair wages and have no social conscience. They technically fit the exact definition of a psychopath. I think it would make more sense to provide this service publicly at the lowest cost, provide actual coverage, with a purpose of creating the lowest burden on society, which brings down the cost of living for us all. This would allow us to be more competitive in industry and improve the quality of life of the majority. Instead, we live in a world of people who are nothing more than parsites on society, using their wealth gain from psychopathic tendencies to further their abilities to make even more money. Unfortunately these people own all of the media, so any attempt at trying to inform the masses of how were being screwed is pretty much impossible. Word of mouth is the only option, but people are so apathetic they won't even take time away from drinking themselves stupid at the bar, or watching tv to even here about solutions, or even the problem itself. I hate the sheeple. It's funny, no matter how smart you are or how good your ideas may be, without the support and attention of the masses, it's all pointless. I can't wait for the corrupt system to fail so that everyone is forced to see the results of their ignorance, and I'm going to make damned sure that they know who to point their fingers at. Until that day, we can only try and lead by example.

 

[Lotuslander]

Cyberclark wrote:

Last election it was 23% of eligible voters actually cast a ballet!

I must say when I read the above line I was shocked. I went to the Elections Alberta website which stated that approximately 850,000 Albertans cast a ballot in the last provincial election in 2004.

I decided to try and put this number into prespective by comparing voter turnout in BC and Alberta. Alberta has a population of about 3.1 million people give or take a hundred thousand. Beautiful British Columbia has a population of 4.1 million give or take a hundred thousand. Elections BC estimates that there are about 3 million eligible voters in British Columbia(this number may be abnormally high because of the merging of the federal and provincial voters' lists), of these 2.7 million (once again this may be an overestimate) are registered and nearly 1.8 million turned up to vote in last May's provincial election. Accordingly that 1.8 million represents 60% of all eligible voters casting ballots or almost 66% of registered voters. If we take the BC example and assume that three quarters of the good people of Alberta are eligible to cast ballots then we could assume that the total number of eligible voters in Alberta is about 2.2-2,3 million people. If only 850,000 turned up to vote that would represent somewhere between 38-41% of eligible voters bothered to go to the polls. Very dismal.

I think all Canadians should be very concerned about these numbers and I would hope that al Albertans regardless of political stripes would encourage their provincial brethern to get out and vote. I persoanlly will be writing to Elections Alberta to see if they have a plan to combat this obvious problem. I thank Cyberclark and others for keeping thier fellow Canadians informed of the darker side of Alberta.

 

[darkbeaver]

RE: Respecting the Instit

It looks to me from what you Albertans have said that you,ve been freed and democratized American style.Good bussiness isn,t necessarily good for people is it? As a matter of fact it almost never is a better deal than public control and regulation, corporate pigs have told us that we can,t afford to have a public sector in this country just 180 degrees from the truth.