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Originally Posted by Canadianman
Man, what a crazy echo chamber this thread is.
Blaming the NDP for investment fleeing when oil prices tanked and we can't get our product to anyone except the US?
Being mad at the NDP for hiring people to avoid having a 20% unemployment rate?
Firmly believing that the party that held power for 50 years, didn't do anything to diversify our economy and didn't get any pipelines built to alternative markets is somehow the solution?
Holding your nose and assuming that the UCP doesn't really mean all of the crazy right wing crap they spew on a daily basis?
I don't love the NDP (didn't even vote for them) but Notley has been a great premier. If they had a name that didn't have NDP in it I suspect they would win the election.
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Hiring people to change lightbulbs regardless of economic circumstances is never a good idea. Hiring should be done to fill needs not to lower unemployment. You can have a debate over whether service cuts should be made or not and part
Of the argument can be eliminating jobs during a recession isn’t a good idea. But this thought that keeps being restated that the government creating positions for the sake of creating positions (ie lightbulb programs) or as an an excuse to not have done anything to improve the efficiency of service delivery is just wrong.
The economy has been diversified over the past 30 years. The energy industry contribution to our economy is 50% less than what it was in 1985. Show me any economy worldwide that can endure their number 1 sector losing 15-20 billion per year in foreign investment and whose product value went from $100 to $0 and look as good as we do.
The NDP should be blamed for many things. Their handling of The PPAs was incompetent. The way the Carbon tax revenues are being spent is terrible. They aren’t responsible for the loss of investment and the current state of pipelines but they are 100% responsible for their budget. They have not done anything on the spending side to recognize that today’s oil industry is the new normal so their budget currently gets a failing grade.
They have not done enough to warrant being voted back in.
Also you should talk to Travis Monroe when you call this place an echo chamber as he would agree with you aside from who it is an echo chamber for.