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Originally Posted by darklord700
You'll get my vote for sure  |
I am sure that he would, until you have to call the police, ambulance, firefighters, use the roads, pay your kids entire education bill, drink clean water, breath clean air... okay there are a million things that your government dollars go towards. Of course there will be some waste in the process, and I think governments should do their best to reduce such waste, however a lot of what the government does has long term benefits for the province as a whole.
You may despise social programs - I am 99% sure that you do. However supporting many of these programs in turn results in people being healthier, which results in them being more productive and putting more money back into the economy.
Alberta in the Klein years went way to far in terms of cost cutting... look at the Alberta Hospital Edmonton as a very localized example, as I am sure you know it is a psychiatric hospital located in North Edmonton, back in the early-mid 90s there was a recommendation to upgrade/renovate the site and looking at it, it is painfully evident that it is required. So now 20 years down the road, the same problems still exist, however as with any issue if you leave it to fester for 20 years it is going to worsen, the last estimate of cost of renovation was pegged at around 200 million dollars.
What do you think should be done? Should psychiatric patients have a hospital that is of bad quality? Should they have a hospital at all - after many of the people there aren't going to contribute anything to the tax base of the province over their entire life (through no fault of their own in 99% of the cases)