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Originally Posted by Slava
I mentioned that (along with a couple other concerns) to my MLA on twitter last night. To his full credit he replied every time and answered my concerns head on. He didn't try to avoid the question or just not answer. Truthfully, that is impressive alone just because I have not had my previous MLA or MP do the same. My current councillor block me on twitter, so clearly she doesn't want to chat!
Anyway, he told me that they actually revised the projections down here, so I guess in a sense this was them being conservative. The original figure was $80/bbl. I had originally responded to a tweet of his saying that borrowing for operations is bad and that I thought they should make the hard choice instead of that. I don't agree, but his comment was that it is better to pay for operations rather than flood the market with skilled workers due to more layoffs.
Just thought I would add their position, or at least one MLAs position to the thread. Like I say, I personally don't agree, but kudos to my MLA for at least replying after what was surely a long day.
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to me that's outright stupid, to me, the government shouldn't be hiring people to decrease the unemployment numbers, or to act as a jobs repository.
Would I feel bad if these people lose their jobs? Absolutely. but at this point the government needs to take a serious look at bloat and inefficiencies, the minute you start taking out loans to support your operations, is the minute that your doing it wrong.
to me its the equivalence of taking out a loan to pay for your electricity in your house.