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Originally Posted by Slava
No we didn't. You can see clearly on the Wildrose' own graph that we weren't spending as much. Its a nice talking point, but its just not the case...
I suppose had no choice is left to interpretation. Most Albertans would've agreed that we had to fund infrastructure through the early-mid 2000's though. We were in the midst of a boom, with a huge population influx and had to do something to try to deal with that. We could've left it stagnant, but that wasn't suggested by any of the political parties that I'm aware of.
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What graph are you talking about? I've provided my sources and they are clear.... we spent as much as other provinces, period. Maybe you are talking about targeted spending of some kind, likely trying to compare apples to oranges, but you can't argue the facts.
We over funded all spending until we accumulated a huge debt of over 22 billion dollars by 1993. How could we possible have accumulated an equal infrastructure deficit at the same time? Then we reduced spending to an amount equal to the Canadian average for about 5 years, and then proceeded to overspend again for the past decade until we have exhausted the savings we have accumulated and racked up another deficit.
And yet, the left wing would let you believe we STILL have not spent enough.
I mean, looking at the numbers this is absolute insanity. It is quite clear spending needs to be restrained significantly in this province, and that resource revenues should be taken away from the bloated and wasteful government grasp.