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Originally Posted by OldDutch
You forgot to add in the sick. What a horrible concept.
I am happy with this budget. Yes I have concerns about long term sustainability, but the PC's have never done that. It's hack and slash too far, and then overspend, rinse and repeat.
In a province as wealthy as ours, there is no need to strip it to the bone like the WRA wants. Will it make you feel better when your on a stretcher in a hospital hallway due to cut backs that the sustainability fund is larger than ever? Or when your parents eventually become old, and their support payments are cut, forcing them to cut back to two meals a day? But hey, the budget is more balanced than ever!
There is a difference between the NDP and Liberals. NDP are the hand out party to bloated unions. Low skilled workers that demand premium benefits. Social Liberals, like myself view government as pro-business, with help to the disadvantaged in society. There is nothing wrong with that.
Strict conservatism is all fine and good, while you are a young, happy, healthy adult, with a paying job. As soon as you lose one of these benefits, and you will, you'll be bemoaning the fact that there is no help for you to get back on your feet.
I for one am happy that the government is addressing the people that need the help the most in society. Even if it may mean more personal for me, and corporate tax for my business.
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Ignoring the facts that we spend almost double of most provinces in the country, and much much more than our closest neighbors, you must really believe places like British Columbia and Ontario are hell where the poor are shovelled into mass graves?
Back in reality, we need to get our spending under control and based upon realism instead of constantly pretending increases in spending improve service or deliverability of anything.