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Originally posted by moon+Jun 29 2005, 06:44 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (moon @ Jun 29 2005, 06:44 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-RougeUnderoos@Jun 29 2005, 05:23 PM
Barb Higgins just informed me that the province has a 5 billion dollar surplus this year. Do you really think they should cut spending on social services?
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I think they should not spend it all on social services. I could use some of that money back in my pocket.
I guess they don't have to cut spending but I think that we certainly spend much more money in stupid social programs than we need to. [/b][/quote]
Spend much more money on social programs than we need to?
Allow me to use the AISH example.
The provincial government ignored two studies that concluded that AISH should have been raised to ~$1200 per month just to bring AISH recipients to the poverty line.
They set out a schedule to raise AISH to $1000 per month by next April thus insuring that most AISH recipients will continue to live below the poverty line.
It is disgusting that in a province as prosperous as Alberta that the severely handicapped continue to be socially marginalized because the provincial government doesn't see fit to provide assistance at a level that allows for a basic standard of living.