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Originally Posted by Suave
Yeah. What he's doing right is rhetoric and propaganda. What I have trouble with is the system whereby the PCs can have a mere 48% of the popular vote, and yet win 74% of the seats in the election. Skewed, anyone?
Metal: all he did was cut funding to departments such as the environmental, health, and educational. That doesn't take a genius. In fact, it takes an idiot. He could have gotten us out of debt by increasing the royalty payments that Alberta gets from companies drilling here, if he had bothered to take his mouth off of the giant cock of the multinational oil corporations for ten seconds.
Well, that's what we get for having an alcoholic highschool dropout as our premier.
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What rhetoric and Propaganda? This election was dubbbed Kleinfield for a reason. He didn't say much of anything, other than the stupid comment about AISH recipiants. Your right, he did cut funding, and now the fundings high again.
The funding was cut, it's now restored and then some, We have the highest paid doctors and nurses in the country, Alberta also has the highest paid k-12 teachers in Canada as well. What the hell do you want?
mmmm Lets increase royalties by 40% like the NDP's wanted.
Guess what would happen to all those investments in the oil patch.
Why do they win so many seats? It's the same reason why the Liberals do in the federal election.
And making fun of his alchoholism is a really low blow. You make fun of Cretien for his Bell's palsy?
Now the oil royalties are based on different types of wells, and different types of extraction. Now for example, the NDP wanted to raise them by 40% Think about this.
We'll take the oil sands for example, which has royalties of 1% gross or 25% net.
Now the strike price of oil to make the oil sands profitable at 35$ a barrel.
Note, the companies only make money off the oil sands if the price of oil is that high.
If you raise royalties, you raise that strike price, thereby making the oilsands a worse investment.
It's pretty simple really, if your a large multinational company and are looking to invest a couple of billion dollars somewhere, and one of the locations your looking at suddenly raises the cost of doing business there by 10% what are you going to think about that place?
Finally, Remember the NEP? Do you Remember what happened?
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as an extra
# of people who voted liberal in 2004: 261,471
# of people who voted liberal in 2001: 276,854