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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
Dear Alberta,
Where did your high horse go? I thought you were investing your money properly? I thought you were passing out cheques to every citizen because you were so rich and powerful? I thought you were diversified so a downturn in your economy wouldn't hurt you?
What happened? I thought you were so much smarter than us?
Sincerely,
~ The Maritimes
(For the record, this had to be said for the asshats that preached the above 'truths' about Alberta's economy, I don't mean it as a generalization on all Albertans, or the people who post here. I've heard so much preaching over the past few years it's nice to tell the idiots "I told you so" when in reality I don't wish ill on your province)
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The truth about Alberta's economy is that it's probably the worse off of any region with similar mineral properties of any developped country in the world. Years and years, and years of prosperity and absolutely NOTHING to show for it other than inflated housing prices and inflated wages.
I always get a kick of the hardcore Albertans here banging their prosperity drum. All it takes is a one year of a recession in this Province and it almost reverts to a third world country. You'd think that given the commodity driven economy that Alberta would be prepared in the fluctuation of oil/gas prices. Hell no! Spend, spend, spend, and than there is the gimmie, gimmie, gimmie of the people (you know, the as an Albertan i'm entitled to make 70K a year and have the biggest truck in the lot even though I have no education or seviceable skills ). There's no happy medium here. Why not level things out instead of continously shifting from end of the economic spectrum to the other?
I love this Province, love the City of Calgary, but i'm getting closer and closer to punching my ticket out. I'd rather be a little worse off in another Province with a lot more security in my job/social service, than live here and live like a Rock Star for 5 years and than spend the next 5 constantly worrying if I'm going to have a job or have to take cut backs because no one within in the government or the population in general is willing to reign things in when the going is good.