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Originally Posted by firebug
But maybe to short-circuit this diversion...
Let's agree that I'm not suggesting corporations should have no profits and that you're not suggesting we should have no teachers, nurses etc.
We are disagreeing on where each of us feel's the 'optimum' point of balance between corporate profits and the physical and social infrastructure for alberta citizens should be.
My opinion is that in the last boom corporate profits received to much of the rent taken and AB citizens too little. I'd trade truck nuts for better health-care and cleaner environment next time.
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Fair enough. I would agree with that.
In previous threads I've stated, and still believe, that as Albertans we're doing this all ass-backwards.
We really could have used a more NDP model 10 years ago when money was being made hand over fist, but right now we need a more 'business-oriented' model in order to stop some of the bleeding. We are hemorrhaging red ink here.
I think that sticks in people's craw a little bit because theres an attitude that the businesses 'got theirs' already and now its 'our turn.'
But I totally agree, its about finding the optimal blend between public and private sectors that we can make work. Its not one or the other we need both.
The problem is that the NDP have effectively gone PC just in the opposite direction and at the worst possible time.
The PCs were too heavily focused on the private sector, the NDP are too heavily focused on the public sector, but what drives people crazy at the moment, myself included, is that the NDP are spending tons and tons of money and heavily favouring the public sector not only at a time when we really dont have the money for it but they are also actively doing it at the expense of the health of the private sector.
And thats something that crazy people do.
To characterize it: its racking up a huge debt load while simultaneously doing damage to your ability to earn the money to pay it back.
Thats crazy and incredibly short-sighted.