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Yeah, whatever Pale. Are you gonna follow me around forever or are you going back on your meds soon?

   

Damn Ziggy you must have got under his skin.......
Rev always insults when He has been slapped down.
In Ontario we have a weak willed goverment that is so busy trying to keep the important issues away from the headlines that they have resorted to soft politics.Banning pitbulls,banning sushi,blaming everybody else.I must admit though the Federal goverment really rams into Ontario.So I gotta give some slack for that.
I like Ralph for telling Martin where togo and for having the guts to say that we need to make some serious changes to Healthcare or it will crumble even more that it has already.

   

Alberta cut a lot of fat and it did hurt a lot of people but it sent the message out that if you wanted something then be prepared to work for it.
We get questionnaires in the mail every week asking about health care or revamping the insurance industry or just about everything that the govt. is involved in.I save $500.00 a year in insurance now because I'm rated on my driving record instead of gender or age.Thanks Ralph.

   

I guess the point I was trying to get across is that these "gutted programs and services" still have a long way to go to cut down on waste. The Rev is right in saying that it's a shame that people are left behind, especially when they don't have to be. To go back to the education example, if that school in Bruderhiem was closed, how many textbooks could you buy? How many teachers for other schools? If it's that obvious in education, then what is health like? Or the other programs and services? Thats the real shame. That wasted money would make a difference. The leadership of the province is still not stepping up. They started to, but have slacked off because we are letting them. The majority of people and politicians are still treating it as a popularity contest when it shouldn't be. This is one area that a proper opposition could make alot of mileage out of, but they are too busy slamming the PCs. Ziggy's point about insurance is illustrative of the example. That should have been addressed years ago.

I will still continue to vote PC. I know my MLA is dedicated to smartening up those complacent bastards. He is giving me hope that the possibility for effective leadership vice self-serving leadership is still possible. He's around here enough to actually be able to talk to him very frequently. Never seen that before. Hmm...

   

My point is,now that were debt free we should have more money to spend on social programs,someone from one of the most wastefull provinces in Canada shouldn't be giving advice on how Alberta can clean up it's act,especially since they contribute 2.5 times more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere per capita then anyone else in this beautifully country and the only solution some have is asking for more money. Time for some of the provinces to start pulling their weight also.

Dont expect Alberta to bear the brunt of another NEP program,we wont.
Ralph will take on the feds concerning health care,if we have to start our own provincial one that isnt a major beauracracy then we will.
Same with a provincial police force.
The insurance revamping went off without a hitch.

We have distanced ourselves from the rest of Canada and broke away on our own crazy frenzy.

But it's not the people,it's the oil!

   

This has been an interesting thread to read!

It makes me wonder what Alberta would be like today if oil had never been discovered there.

   

The NEP woke us up,that's why the heritage fund was started,we realized we were very vulnerable. During the energy crisis you didnt even try and drive into Montana with yellow plates,you would get all your windows smashed.Albertas energy industry started with coal and not oil,the majority of immigrants were miners and had very tough work ethics,most were communists,we even had Canada's only communist party here in small town Alberta. When the mines tried to starve out the miners, 6000 men,woman and children marched down main street in solidarity.There's shots of that march on an award winning film that is shown at the Frank slide interpretive center(the day the mountain fell).
Even as Communists the people in my small town raised enough money for the war effort that they had the H.M.C.S. Blairmore named after them.
To really try and figure out what Alberta would be like if no oil was discovered you have to look at what it was like before oil was found.The United Mine Workers of America had a very strong influence back in the WW2 era. To read any of those journals would give you a peek into what it was like back then and what made the province what it is today,the people.

   

Nice post, Himmler! You evidently couldn’t comprehend one component of my post, but that’s likely due to your piss-poor genes, you monosynaptic twit. I’m “an Ignorant SOB” – hmm…coming from the likes of you, I’d say that’s classic projection. You are merely a philistine – an uneducated, bigoted, homophobic little simpleton that desperately wants to matter.

   

Mustang1, the elementary school system isn't putting them out like they once did.........so that's what you get with unsupervised access to the internet.

   

I would just like to say Hi to my Canadian brothers and sisters and at the same time convey a message to you all from Alberta..... please do not fret over us, we are doing just fine thank you very much..... I really do'nt see what Alberta does or what we have is anybodys' business outside of Alberta, we are playing within the rules and the rest of this country should be grateful that it gets what it does from our great province... if you really have a problem with it the only thing I might suggest is to get over it, you will only become more bitter than you already seem to be.... the concept of Canada is a great thing IMO, with the individual provinces controlling their own destinies using their own philosophies within the rules of our great confederation.... when my fore fathers arrived in Alberta from Scotland in the late 1800's could they have envisioned what we have become today, are they looking down on us right now with sense of pride and accomplihment, I would like to think they are brothers and sisters... God Bless this great province and country....

   

Another NEP means seperation, belive it there won't be a Quebec Bluff we'll just leave

   

Actually, the Heritage Trust fund was created in 1976, long before the NEP every came along...

http://www.finance.gov.ab.ca/business/a ... story.html

   

I concur....for starters teach Calgarians HOW TO FUCKING DRIVE! Mr. Magoo is better than most of 'em.

   

And I quote(with a slight alteration)

"I've seen some drivers suck before, but they are the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked"



Think about it WDH....you got some people who drive into fucking trains....TRAINS man....wtf!?!? Those bells and flashing lights aren't enough, so they put that bar which drops in front of the road, and still people drive into the fucking trains.

Then, to top it all of, you still have the audacity to call Newfie's dumb!

   

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