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Originally posted by Bend it like Bourgeois@Apr 5 2005, 08:24 PM
I used to blame the parties. Now I blame Canadians. Canadians are among the most intellectually lazy people on the planet, and this is the result. There's no other explanation. We have corrupt & wasteful governments because we want them. Or at least, we want to keep them as long as we get to keep everything else.
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The country recently ranked the best to do business in, the only country in the G8 to have a balanced budget this year, least year, and for 8(?) consecutive years, and a country with 4 strong federal parties/choices and many other provincial options is full of intellectually lazy people?
I don't know about that.... maybe the rest of the country is really smart?!
Maybe the liberals have provided enough of a fiscally responsible carrot (ironically) that people outside Alberta are not willing to give up their urban lifestyles (ie - pro-choice, pro-gay, pro-anything that does not involve the church/beliefs of a few deciding the lives of the many, again ironic) to overthrow that government despite allegations of corruption. Again, ironically, the Liberals excelling at selling the ONE area that the conservatives should be able to compete with them on, fiscal restraint....
Your saying it would be smarter for non-Albertans to hand over their social freedoms to a bunch of Alberta based politicians THEY see as set on the Americanization/Judification of everything they hold dear?
If anything they are being quite intelligent - using Alberta for its wealth while keeping their politically active fringe at bay....
*shrug*
Claeren.