Alberta: Putting aside the fear, what do we have?

Putting aside the fear of change; what do we have? 

Mostly, we have a population that is terrified their hard work and meager savings will be jeopardized if the Conservatives are voted out!  Not selfish; understandably, just terribly afraid.  I will demonstrate nothing is further from the truth!  It is better to have any party who is willing to serve the people of Alberta as opposed to the Conservatives who have demonstrated for more than a decade their purpose is to rip off the resource leaving nothing behind!

Your lives and your profits can only increase!  When most of that 46 billion dollars of stolen revenue gets back into our books a great number of things are possible!  A much better life for everyone including the oil patch, catering, Hair Dressers, tailors, Automotive; Education and the Oil Patch!  Everyone!

To take a closer look:

The Wild Rose Party was/is a small right-wing group of extremists who caught the Oil Industry eye and finance support.  Harper supported them totally throwing his seasoned election types into the WRP as managers during the elections.  We now have a total circus of nutters for an official opposition!

The Wild Rose Party and the oil companies have pushed their cause forward by deluding the large LDS (Mormon) following in Southern Alberta with some really hare-brained ideology not the least of which is "the oil companies own the oil and left-wing parties are trying to steal it from them".   Next, like Harper, they have pushed hard on the equalization payment; a Canadian solution to our national well being saying "Alberta has always paid for Eastern Canada and we get nothing in return."  ' plays well with the stealing of the oil companies oil.

Alberta received equalization payments from conception until  1947 and again from 1957 to 1965.  We got our share of the program when we needed it!  It was not called equalization until much later on but, the support still came from the Central Government to Alberta of those many years!

Being raised in the LDS church myself (a seagull who won't eat grasshoppers) I can still voice an opinion and that is Danielle and her dad should both be kicked out of the Church because of the huge lies they have pushed onto the vulnerable membership.

The Wild Rose Party  continue to muddy the water by saying the equalization payments were not started until years later. That in itself is true but, this does not change the fact Alberta survived on payments from Ottawa for a great many years before they named it Equalization payments .

They also sight the Chase Manhattan Bank as being the great Canadian Savior by saving us from the evil eastern banks of the day.   One does not have to wonder about their US origins!

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The Wild Rose Party  continue to muddy the water by saying the equalization payments were not started until years later. That in itself is true but, this does not change the fact Alberta survived on payments from Ottawa for a great many years before they named it Equalization payments .

he Alberta Party is still lurking in the background having no policy or platforms saying they will be whatever Albertans want them to be.  Always taking studies and never committing.  They too have the interest of the oil industry and will be left extremists  depending on what is needed to destabilize the vote in Alberta.  It is a sad state of affairs when a single industry can manipulate our political landscape like they do! A vote for the Alberta Party is more than a wasted vote; it is a very damaging vote!

The Alberta New Democratic Party came out with a lot of very good, well thought out, sensible thinking this last election. Arguments that came forward on the various news sites were heavily laced with nonsense labels such as "left" "right" and "socialist" whereas their platform had nothing to do with any of these labels.  The NDP have never given any indication they will harm the industries or, in effect kill the golden goose!

The fact is, the 3 billion dollars a year we are missing out of our economy could only make their jobs easier, get them larger wages and reduce their cost of  living. Perhaps next time!

The Alberta Liberal Party, even having betrayed all who believed in them put forward some very adroit and well thought out platform items. Among the  foremost  plans was the doing away with the Alberta Health Authority.  That would have effectively stopped the move to privatization cold! The Health Authority's main job is to privatize health care, pushing as hard and fast as they can, taking whatever you will give up.  Legislation changes say you cannot sue the Government or the health authority for things that go wrong.

Cut and paste this link into your browser - Liberal Betrayal  http://albertathedetails.blogspot.ca/2013/03/betrayed-by-alberta-liberals.html

The Conservatives have savaged the education in this province cutting most support at all levels for  university education while building very shallow and sometimes dangerous trade programs to turn out bodies for the oil patch.  The Liberals proposed doing away with post secondary tuition.  This would have pushed forward an immediate increase in Albertans moving into executive positions in industry.

The thing is, if we had the  41 billion of dollars in tax revenues that was due to us we would be in a position of multi-choices and financing that would be assured for municipalities and cities; hospitals and schools.  Gone would be the scenario of telling Albertans how lucky we are the Conservatives found some money for a special project of theirs.  I am very sure the Conservative rank and file did not sign up for this travesty of Government.  We lost more in simple taxes on profits than we ever got from land lease sales.

Think of the 41 billion dollars a  year of your money that is being stolen; tucked into foreign oil pockets!  Why in the world would you continue to support this group?  They have done nothing; nothing at all except lie to you and elevate their own status.

Cut and paste this forward link to your browser: 
http://albertathedetails.blogspot.com/2012/08/alberta-losses-billion-due-to.html

Alberta Election 2012

If Alberta chooses a Liberal Government this time around it will completely derail Harper's dreams of empire and chances are we can get back to normal politics rather quickly.

Tar sands projects are nearly paid for.  We are entitled to 25% royalty.  If  we vote in the WRP or Cons we will see no part of that royalty! Both parties are funded by oil and oil doesn't care which one wins.

Here are the remarkable Liberal platform effects if we put them in. 
On the Environment:
A proper, honest evaluation of the political worth of an environmental fight in the middle of an election is a lost cause!  While saying this (more or less) they quickly acknowledge we must do something meaningful or risk losing our industry!
That is as honest and pragmatic view as I have seen in the election comments!

On Capping Electrical Rates Charged:
Sherman says he will cap electrical rates charged!  When our utilities were turned over to the cities, Electricity in particular, it was the start of indirect taxation by this Government  . This is the one single thing that killed Alberta's attempts to diversify industry! 

In hind sight would say it was part of the plan to channel workers into the oil industry away from other opportunities which falls in line with their education butchery of the same time.

Our electrical resource was the cornerstone of Alberta's success, the so called "Alberta Advantage" When it was turned into an alternate tax source for cities, (Indirect Taxation) other industries left Alberta in droves! Most to Ontario but some to Minnesota. Gone!
A stable priced system would court new industry!

Do away with Health Authorities and go back to Regional Boards.
Raj moving away from that monstrosity the Health Authority is an exciting concept and very meaningful!

This health authority can sell any hospital or equity in their control for any amount of money  without checking with the legislature or getting further approval!  This is the cornerstone to the Conservative/WRP privatization goal!  Redford's promise for 130 clinics is hollow; built with taxpayer money they will be handed off to private industry at pennies on the dollar of value.  Likewise, new hospitals built.  This is exactly what they have done in the past.

We pay this monstrosity more in just severance packages that we paid to all the regional health boards in total. This also serves to drive up healthcare costs to make a so called too expensive program easier to sell.
 and (On the left side of the page search "Health Care" for some interesting reading)
The point is the Health Authorities own outright the hospitals. And, they were owned by the hospital boards prior to this.

The door is open, the stage is set to sell off our hospitals to private industry for any price they choose. They answer to no one!

If you vote in either the WRP or the Cons you are putting yourself on a very slippery slope! Both parties and the Federal Conservatives are all hooked solidly to the US Republican Party here:
and with the Fraser Institute (Harper was their poster boy) who have more American Republican Members than Canadian.

Add to this the WRP ongoing support for the Alberta Firewall and all the existing  legislation which is all written with the condition the Government cannot beheld responsible for anything and we have a real mess!

Albertans stuck on Conservative or WRP have no grasp of the danger they are putting their families in! You cannot keep voting WRP/conservative time and again and expect different outcomes than what we have.

Things are not good in Alberta! We are in crisis!

I continue to support the Liberal party; for very good reason!