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Originally Posted by Locke
No, it isnt.
I noticed Ceci say a few times that 'Albertans have rejected the notion of laying off education and health-care workers and that we're not going to recoup the required money from underpaying a few administrators.'
Well no kidding, I dont think anyone is advocating massive layoffs of teachers, doctors and nurses, but hey, people are taking cut-backs all over the place.
We're not even talking about reductions in salary, but small reductions to their pensions and benefits alone could free up a ton of money.
Yeah, they'd have to pay for whatever Alberta Health doesnt cover, like most people, and yeah, they'd have to be responsible for a portion of their own retirements, like most people, but you arent firing them or reducing their pay and you're likely driving that money right back into education and health care anyways.
When they talk about inefficient systems these are two of the three on the posters, they're flanking the Post Office.
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the bolded is such a BS statement by the NDP, what they're trying to do is create a collective guilt about cleaning up any part of the civil service. The NDP are basically putting the label of crucial front line worker on every position in the government and trying to guilt us about any thoughts of cleaning it up because we're going to machine gun teachers, and doctors and nurses.
The fact is that the bloat isn't with teachers doctors and nurses, the bloat is in middle management and admin and operations workers and senior managers.
But the NDP won't go after them any more then the Conservatives under Redford because that's they're voter base.
When I suddenly hear the terms that the NDP are throwing around, I'm having flashbacks to Kathleen Wynne in the last election, where she complained about the Conservatives machine gunning 100,000 civil servants to get spending under control, and suddenly it was "The Cons are going to fire teachers and doctors and nurses". No the Cons were going to go after the bloated admins, and middle mangers etc.
This is clearly a government that has no clue about what they're doing, and that makes them dangerous.