Thought this was an interesting post on the subject by Kathleen Smith. I have a feeling most posters in this thread are going to get huffy over this. For the record, I am neither a PC nor a Wildrose nor an NDP supporter:
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This "Alberta Advantage" you hear about was built on the backs of the disadvantaged. And I can tell you from personal experiences that there was never an advantage for me, let alone those who weren't even lucky enough to be working 70 hours a week at two jobs.
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"This is life in Alberta. When oil is expensive, everything is good and nobody worries about a rainy day. When oil is cheap, everything is bad and we all try to find someone to blame. But blaming the NDP for a bad oil price and a government that pissed away the good days doesn't make any sense to me. After 44 years of the conservatives screwing up, we at least gotta give the new guys a chance."
I am not an economist. I am a reasonably intelligent person with a basic understanding of GDP and interest payments and debt.
More important than any of that is that I am a person with a basic understanding of history and how the austerity measures of the past did nothing but contribute to the hole this province is in today.
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