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Originally Posted by Bunk
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.
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The PCs have been blindly throwing money at 'stuff' for decades now. I have no problem spending appropriate amounts of money on essential services and infrastructure, and I have no problem getting that money by imposing a consumption tax on non-essential items, but I do have a problem with a government being able to set budgets and spend money without any checks and balances. Healthcare spending for ones needs a huge audit. Considering the amount Alberta is spending, the system should be a lot better.
But as soon as you talk about health care reform, people go crazy.