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Take Alberta for instance.
Province rich in oil and gas, ranches, and business.
We are probably the richest province in the country. What has the Klien government done to get us to this point?

They did funding to some programs back in early 90's. But thats it.
This didn't affect the amount of money comming into the province, from oil and gas sales. Becuase Klien made cuts to those programs when he did, we where able to cut our provincial deficient, and become debt free.

Thats all well and good, but Klien being in power doesn't have any effect on oil prices, gas prices, employment and unemployment stats.

There may be a cause and effect relationship, but I don't think it is as much as it is percieved.

Another example. The economy was booming in the late 90's. Why? Becuase everyone was investing in the "dot com's". The NASDAQ was up around 10, 000 - 11,000 points. People where creating companies, selling IPO's, and becoming millionaires.

What did Clinton do, that direct affected the economy in this way? Nothing. What did Bush do that directly affected the crash's of Worldcom and Enron? 2 of the largest companies in the US.

What the regular people care about which are jobs, unemployment, money, etc the government has no direct control over.
Yes, Bush has run up a huge defficet (sp?), becuase of the war on terror, the DOHS (department of homeland security). All this really does is affect how the US dollar is viewed on the world market. If the dollar goes down, more countries are willing to invest the US. Buying more goods than they usually would. Then with more people investing the country, the dollar will rise, and vise versa.