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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Some dude on my LinkedIn is claiming that a 0.05% drop in productivity in Alberta equates to a range of cost for AB at $30-50mm per day in economic output. I have no idea how he’s coming up with that haha but kind of interesting and just generally true that the gov should factor in the opportunity cost of lost economic output by forcing all businesses that have people to adjust to this reality by figuring out child care (work from home, cost, etc.).
He also makes a claim that he believes the demand from teachers to be met by the gov only requires an additional $200mm.
Not sure if any of that is true, don’t have time to go research it all.
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It doesn't really matter how someone wants to crunch the numbers. This situation negatively impacts Albertans. It is not good for students, teachers, parents, employers (even the big bad corporations) and it was entirely avoidable had the UCP any interest in avoiding it.
The reality of the situation is that the UCP have been on this path since 2019 and have intentionally made this happen. In their arrogance, they probably thought that the teachers would roll over immediately and never get to a strike but, either way, their goal is to dismantle public education and grift the money into anything other than a properly funded public education system.
I don't know if it would cost $200M per year or 5 times that to meet the demands of Teachers but it is worth repeating, over and over again, the ever growing (and not complete) list of wastes of our money performed by the UCP:
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Originally Posted by Wolven
The province has had enough money to do both (hire teachers and pay them a respectable amount).
Imagine if: - the UCP hadn't funneled $7.5B into Keystone XL
- the UCP hadn't dunked $1.3B to 2.5B in Sturgeon Refinery
- The UCP hadn't dumped $100M into their war room embarrassment
- Had not slashed corporate tax rates (costing the government $4.7B in revenue) so that corporations could have bigger profits, executives could get bigger bonuses, and Albertans would still be getting salary rollbacks and layoffs
- They had not gifted $83M to MHCare for unusable Turkish Tylenol
- They had not gifted charter schools $123M to benefit a handful of students.
- The renewable energy projects cancelled ($33B in investment in Alberta)
- The legal exposure of their coal policy flip flop ($15B in potential legal losses to coal corporations)
- The UCP hadn't immediately deposited their surplus from last year into the Heritage fund so they could pretend to be broke right now
- And so much more....
This government is so incompetent that instead of having piles of money to pay for all of the services we want, they are instead burning billions of our dollars to enable grifts and appease their overlords and then telling us to stop looking under the hood when everything comes crashing down around us.
They are literally relying on people being stupid and willing to turn on each other instead of putting all of our focus on the UCP's horrible mismanagement of the province and all out theft of our tax money. |
Properly funding education, at almost any cost, is more worthwhile than all of the dumb things the UCP has allocated our money to.