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Originally Posted by darklord700
Cut services/spending and finding expediencies are exact what a family needs to do no matter what their income is. It's call "make do". Why this doesn't apply to a government?
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Because funding for these programs in general has to be predictable. You can't just fire everyone because the economy drops and then hire them all back again when things are better. "Making do" means borrowing money in these cases.
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Originally Posted by GP_Matt
Below is a list of a few things that they proposed to cut funding.
Delaying the Royal Alberta Museum by one year
Extending some non critical three year projects over four years
— Rolling back 30 per cent salary hikes voted in by cabinet almost four years ago under former premier Ed Stelmach.
— Freezing wages for civil service workers and thinning managerial ranks, through retirement and attrition, to a 10-1 from a 4-1 ratio within five years.
— Cutting by 50 per cent the $14-million Public Affairs Bureau, the government's communications arm, which the Wildrose calls a de facto Tory mouthpiece.
— Ditching a $2-billion carbon capture and storage plan — even if it meant paying millions of dollars to private firms for cancelled contracts.
— Reducing cabinet to 16 departments from 20 and slashing severance packages for politicians.
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From the items in the "budget" they released its a grand total of $52 million (aside from the carbon capture) that is actually given a figure. Nothing else looks like they've got figures for it at all.
My favorite (as noted before though) is that $7 Million for public affairs. Basically this is the definition of pennywise and pound foolish.