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Originally Posted by Azure
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What is the point of having a surplus? Honest question, what is the point of having a surplus then, if you want to use the same logic, either the government should be offering more services, they should decrease taxes, or sock it away in an investment fund that lost a lot of it's value in 2008.
Ontario isn't in the position that it is in only because of Government spending, rather it is there because the manufacturing industry has fled to China and other parts of the world where you can afford to pay nickles to the dollar for workers. Unless you think that the oilsands is going to relocate to China, I don't see the huge connection.
There are inefficiencies in government spending, I don't like how money was given to education in a haphazard manner, it could have been better spent from all accounts, that being said, I don't have a problem with the actual spending, just the way that it occurred.
The government should be continually reinvesting in new technologies such as the Carbon Capture because that is a continual industry that will be a boon to Alberta. Cutting short term is getting the province nowhere in the long run.
I do like debates like this though as it does show that some people are actually interested, relative to what seems to be the masses of the apathetic.