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Originally Posted by Rhettzky
This isn't money we'd otherwise get. So it's not like voting no gets these damn potholes patched any sooner.
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####ing Christ I hate this argument so much. I went off even more in the other thread, but that we can't get infrastructure for ourselves, because we need it....but we sure can get it when we have to impress a bunch of visitors...what a bunch of horse####. That is what I hate about politicians so much. It's all about being part of the elites, about mingling with the elites, about raising ones profile for a bigger political gig. They apparently are incapable of helping us out of the need of citizens. But avoiding being an international embarrassment? Impressing a bunch of elites? All of a sudden, there's money for things (and the ability to far exceed a budget). For real though, #### that ####.
But the irony of the NDP wanting the plebiscite is wonderful isn't it? The NDP will not even be in power when the bid is due, so even if the plebiscite is 100% for, what exactly can they do about it? Kenney should be the one telling us what he wants to do here. Considering tax and spending cuts are likely to be his top two priorities, I seriously doubt he's gonna kick any money to this. And the feds have an election that year too, and vote buying to save three seats in Alberta is not gonna be that important (and Scheer isn't gonna offer us anything, he has our votes locked up, just like Harper did very little for us) when there will need to be vote buying in Ontario, Quebec and BC. We're an afterthought in federal elections after all.