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Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard
While I am a fan of efficient spending of government revenue and I think that the PC's have had their fair share of warts over the past 5-10 years, I still have concerns regarding a party who is so intent on avoiding going into deficit that they are willing to slash funding towards important infrastrucure developments such as public transportation. If Calgary wants to be a world class city they need to continue to develop the LRT and continually reinvest in public transportation. The costs associated with this development are going to continually rise in the future due to higher material cost and higher labour rates and it is something that every study says we need to invest in - so why would we cut funding now, seems penny wise and pound foolish.
Actually that phrase can be used in order to describe a lot of the Wildrose "plans" I think.
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Ignoring the facts that Wildrose isn't cutting public transportation spending and infrastructure spending is a rather small portion of provincial expenses (salaries being the number one), why is it ok to mortgage your childrens future to pay for infrastructure today? Are future needs not important as well? Who is going to pay for infastructure in greece now that they've exhausted their capacity to borrow?
I think your reasoning is rather selfish. We need to live withing our means today so that future generations are guaranteed to be able to make the same decisions.