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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Well yeah, thats the Wildrose way. Cut, cut cut and then we'll be able to afford everything. If only it were that easy, but unlike a business or a person, a government doesn't work like that in any way. But apparently just cutting will fix the issues in this province (like somehow the issue isn't over reliance on resource revenue, its excessive spending.) Spending cuts will not achieve anything close to balancing a budget, unless they are extremely deep cuts that result in drastic decreases in service offerings, which most people will be opposed to. People want it every single way possible rather than the realistic way.
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Instead of the PC way of bury your head in the sand and pretend everything is normal while buying votes in successive elections. Waiting for things to become so terrible that the only solution is debt or new taxes.
They have been spending beyond their means for years and only now are they coming to terms with what they have created.