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Bunk · 01-15-2015, 11:20 AM

The "I don't trust the government to spend the money" crowd is interesting.

What you you have us do? Slash $7 billion from the budget? Not build any schools? Run deficits and pray oil goes back up?

Just empty rhetoric. There's not a single person in Alberta that doesn't want as efficient and effective a government as possible, but if people think there's $7 billion in fat just waiting to be trimmed and everything will be ok, they're fooling themselves. A realistic cost cutting measure would be targeted salary rollbacks, some wage freezes for a while, and let attrition shrink the public service a bit, but that won't come even close to closing a $7 billion budget gap.

01-15-2015, 11:20 AM	#82
Bunk Franchise Player Join Date: Jul 2006 Exp:	The "I don't trust the government to spend the money" crowd is interesting. What you you have us do? Slash $7 billion from the budget? Not build any schools? Run deficits and pray oil goes back up? Just empty rhetoric. There's not a single person in Alberta that doesn't want as efficient and effective a government as possible, but if people think there's $7 billion in fat just waiting to be trimmed and everything will be ok, they're fooling themselves. A realistic cost cutting measure would be targeted salary rollbacks, some wage freezes for a while, and let attrition shrink the public service a bit, but that won't come even close to closing a $7 billion budget gap. __________________ Trust the snake.