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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
You think roads today will be here in 50 years, let alone 10 years? I don't really agree with that.
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Ummm yes? While roads are something that need uptake... wait are you holding out hope of a flying Delorian time machine?
Seriously your argument is that roads won't be there in 10 years?
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Last year we spent 3.2 Billion on roads, and 1.2 Billion on new schools/buildings etc. Of course a large portion of that probably were upgrade the PC's office buildings as well. If we simply controlled this spending in a predictable manner, we would be fine, but instead we have increased this budget 500% in less that a deacade. Totally and obviously unsustainable.
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Sure it was.
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As for salaries.... 77% of our education budget and 70% of our health budget are spent on Salaries. That's 4.3 and 7.7 BILLION dollars respectively. You don't think there is some room to cut fat there? Since 2000 we've seen the population of students increase 3.9% yet we have 13.5% more teachers.... why? We've seen the total government payroll increase in size by 20%. Is that really necessary? And this doesn't even begin to touch the insanity that is public pensions.
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Because class sizes were too large?
Actually I looked it up for health care a total 5,654,080,000 was spent on salaries by Alberta Health Services out of a total funding of health services of 16,000,000,000. Factoring in doctors fees which make up about 3,449,000,000 and you are at roughly 62.5% of every dollar spent on health care goes into salary.
There likely is fat but I can all but guarantee you that if you try and shave the fat you will kill the goose in the process... except in this case the goose is a person. Then you also haev to factor in that of every dollar being spent on health care salaries 10% is making it's way back to the province via taxes (roughly).
But I can't believe I am looking up actual statistics for someone who doesn't think that roads will exist in 10 years time.
http://www.health.alberta.ca/documen...-Report-11.pdf
http://www.health.alberta.ca/documen...tion-12-13.pdf