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Originally Posted by Slava
You and I agree...yet we come to a vastly different basis for the programs. You want the programs to exclude the "cheaters" or people who abuse the system as a main plank. (my words, not yours!). I prefer to see the programs be all encompassing and as inclusive as possible, and if it costs a little extra and we can afford it, then its fine with me.
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Yeah, say that about every state program and entitlement over the course of decades, add in the wonders of public administration and you get nickeled and dimed to death. We're in a province that typically spends twice as much as any other per person on government expenditures and yet there's still people and organizations lining up at the trough begging to be sprinkled with new cash. Oil is friken $100/bbl and has increased every year but yet the surplus shrinks every year. Yeah it's time for "change," but it's not a "change" that comes from a party that gives multiple bullet points on ignored areas of Alberta that should get immediate injections (Double that, triple this) of funds. They're answer when someone questions them on where it's going to come from is government inefficiencies in a number of broadly defined areas. If that were the opening sentance of a long document outlining where and how they would do it then that's an acceptable answer. Fact is they have no clue on how to streamline anything and even if they did suceed then we'd still have a province that spends money in out of control ways because they've already committed those savings to dubious new causes.