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Old 02-06-2014, 09:13 PM   #91
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Originally Posted by Slava View Post
I don't even know why I replied in the first place, because in reality I don't think I could care less than I do about this "issue". Nonetheless, its a case of penny wise and pound foolish. $45,000 is bugger all compared to this $8B figure floating around. I have no idea how accurate that debt figure is, but this is a miniscule percentage of that, and an even tinier amount of the provincial budget annually. Its barely even statistically significant.
Maybe "penny wise- pound foolish" is quite the simplification; but it does hold true. We have a premier with a spending problem, and a province with a debt/ deficit problem. It isn't about the $45K when the province has an annual budget in the 10's of billions. It's about how she spends money, and how she wastes money. If she wastes money on travel; where else does she waste? And how do the hundreds of people who work under her also spend their work budgets? (And carry that on through policies, etc.)
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