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Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard

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?

So wait, roads need major uptake or not? If we built a road today, and left it, it will be waiting for us to use in 10 years?

Be realistic. Building a road today doesn't create an indefinite resource there for hundreds of years.

Because class sizes were too large?

According to who? Pupil Student ratio went way down. Have we seen any positive outcomes for this huge expense? Who is measuring the return on this costly investment...?

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.

Im going off of comments made by Andy Weiler, the Director of Communications who said roughly 70% of the AHS account is spent on salaries. Perhaps you have missed something or something has changed but lets agree it's a huge portion on their budget. The number you have come up with is 9 billion.

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

There's nothing like putting one's opinion as fact. I can also guarantee that, like when it's happened before, freezing raises and eliminating middle management will not equal drastic cuts to service delivery.

Then again, I can't beleive I am arguing with someone who believes cutting a nurses overtime bonus means she will go out and kill people.