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Originally posted by Snakeeye@May 21 2005, 09:11 AM
Personally, I like my 75 cents, and every firewall we can put up to keep my money in my province, and to keep Ottawa out of my province is a good thing.
I would much rather my money went to paying the additional costs of protecting Alberta than went to some corrupt Liberal's pocket.
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But how much did you complain when Ralph Klein sold the Holy Cross to his good personal friends who work in private health care for pennies on the dollar?
That cost you more then the entire adscam scandel...
Did it cause you to vote NDP?
Did your disgust at losing a few dollars because of Alberta-PC corruption change your vote?
Did you complain when the Alberta papers didn't push the story?
Did you complain when people kept voting PC?
Did you lament the end of good governnance and the need to assert Municiple power over Provincial jurisdiction?
[V - Not directed at you Snakeeye 
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Government is government, to suggest that it is better to have your personal life controlled by one level of government instead of another because that level suits YOUR lifestyle is ignorant and ignores the true joy of living in an open and free world. Generation after generation is so wlling to give up the gains of the generation before it in the hopes of finding some fascist ideal that suits them and their family at the expense of their neighbours.
My point was simply that 75c/yr should not be the cost of my freedom in this country. The only thing keeping Alberta from becoming some bastion of odd, right wing American-protastant-style christian ethics at the expense of everyone else's life is Ottawa.
I am all for cracking down on corruption, but that does not mean that government is evil. Have you spent 75c on something you shouldn't have this year? A chocolate bar maybe? Some sweets you didn't need? It is always good to trim the fat but mistakes happen.
I think talking about the need for a forth branch of gevernment, an auditing department with real power to over see spending and protect tax payers, is a far more interesting avenue of discussion and movement towards a better lifestyle as Canadians then a discussion about how we need to insulate ourselves as likeminded Alberta red-necks so that we can all own assult rifles and control the dirty gays and filthy abortive mothers and evil 'lets give em life in prison' pot smokers...
No wonder people in the East don't vote for 'our' party.... maybe if we had good leadership, good idea's, and good salesmanship we might get somewhere?
Claeren.