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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
I hear that from a lot of Albertans. Born in a land rich in oil and other resources and then stick their nose up in the air and say it's easy for other provinces to maintain a great economy.
Born and raised in Nova Scotia, I have seen a lot of people struggling to get by.... working two or three jobs at minimum wage to raise a family. It's very easy to say "Build industries! Develop an economy! If you can't do it, then you're lazy!" It's much harder to do. Halifax has a dozen universities and colleges, but Nova Scotia's biggest export to this day is educated youth that spread out across Canada (and the world) because there are no jobs for them. The Nova Scotia government has enticed phone centers to come with huge tax breaks hoping they would stay in the province, but the gravy train is about up and the word is that the call centres are planning on pulling out to go to India. They tried developing a film industry there with moderate success (Deloris Clairborne, Shipping News), but the rising Canadian dollar nipped that in the bud. Private industries have tried locating computer industries there... I mean they have educated computer programmers in the province. I even went back for a year to see how things were working and the company, knowing that the supply of programmers was so great, figured the best thing to do was to hire the best and burn them out, demanding 30 hours of overtime on top of the regular 40hour work week. There were times that I was asked to work from Friday at 8am to Monday at 5pm. Straight. Then when people leave because they are burnt out, they just hire more and and burn them out too. So programmers leave for greener pastures in Ontario or the U.S.. So the economy isn't so great.. a lot of people scraping out an existance, while the Albertans stick their nose in the air and say they have no sympathy for them because it's easy to have a great economy. ****ES ME OFF.
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It's not develop it or your lazy, it's develop it, but if you can't move ... and be thankful you live in a country where it is that simple.
Equalization means, for many people work when you can, but there's a nice comfy cushion for you to fall on if you cant work 40 hours a week or 12 months a year.
A good percentage of PEI shuts down for the winter and they ride the pogey wagon. IE READ: they think they are entitled to a hand out.
Meanwhile Albertian work more hours than anywhere else in the country to pay for that sense of entitlement.