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Originally Posted by Flacker
Without question, team blue pissed it away. Government waste in this province was created by the PCs (post-Getty), I just see that there is little push for the NDPs to reign any of this waste in. Kind of like, meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Notley has said that she is taking a page from Lougheed's book in trying to get Alberta's fair share. The difference is that Lougheed had immense business acumen and wasn't in bed with the unions. Hard to control costs when you are hand in hand with CUPE.
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To be honest though, if you're going to spend money on fixing up infrastructure and whatnot, conventional wisdom says that a recession is the time to do that. I get that a lot of people think cuts need to be made in the public sector, and maybe that's the case. I just don't think that the level of cuts that need to be made, while still keeping an acceptable level of servants is going to drastically alter the amount of spending the government does, especially if we're talking lower or mid-level employees.