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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
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.
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OK, this is the graph I'm talking about. Page 9, right at the very top (sorry there is probably an easier way to link this or link the image).
http://www.wildrosecaucus.ca/media/2...ative-2012.pdf
I get that the PCs can be accused of overspending, but this was in direct response to their own over-cutting in the years prior. This graph doesn't go back far enough to show the 90's, but you can see the tail end of the cuts here pretty clearly.