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!

Alberta Pre Election Budget - The real one will follow if you elect them again.

•  Alberta Pre Election Budget

IT WAS NOT OIL RESOURCE REVENUES WHO PAID DAY TO DAY EXENSES! IT WAS OUR HERITAGE TRUST FUND WHICH PAID 15 TOTAL PROVINCIAL BUDGETS! And.the Heritage Trust Fund was not sacked to help a starving province!  It was sacked throughout the highest, richest production years Alberta has ever known!  It was not invested in capital projects that did not appreciate as they would have you think!

160 billion dollars was pulled out of the fund and ran through General Revenues and used to artificially reduce oil royalty to zero!  The Heritage Trust is now down to 15 billion and falling fast! To replace this money they will increase your personal taxes!

THERE NEVER WAS A SUSTAINABILITY FUND!  Alberta's AIMCO however reported an 8 billion dollar loss in pension funds. (between an 8 and 12 million loss to pensions) at the same time the Conservatives were busted for stealing Alberta Pension Funds. http://albertathedetails.blogspot.com/2011/12/alberta-pensions-at-risk.html

Stupendous Predictions abound.  It is the true benchmark of the Conservatives. In their world it is not how much BS you throw but how much you make stick to the door that counts!

This time, last election: Our resource revenues were promised a pie in the sky increases in the "New Royalty Regime". Our royalty was 16% USD and US exchange was 18%.  They projected huge, impossible royalty increases exactly as they are doing this time! Same old show.

As it turned out, they changed our take from USD to Can $ in that document, a loss to this province of 18% at the time! The purpose was to reduce royalty and only to reduce royalty.  So much for promises from these guys. As Stelmach said in debate on that election, "we are Conservatives. not like these other guys"

The original deal on royalty was 25% on a paid plant and only 1% while the plant was being paid for.  Under this formula Alberta Taxpayers paid 100%  of these plants.  It was not a big investment by no name oil industry types. It was 100% Alberta Taxpayer coin!

Since the last election however they have reduced our royalty from 16% (When their stated target was 19% auditor Fred Dunn) to zilch!

Plant pay offs have nothing to do with their projected robbery.  Conservative idealism howeveris everything!

"INCREASES IN HEALTH CARE SPENDING" they say. No more chance than the proverbial snow ball in hell!  They do have every intention of totally privatizing our health care and doing away with Alberta Health Care Coverage. This is where most your phantom billions are coming from!  That is why so many health care companies are now registered in Alberta after Alberta changed legislation to allow Private Coverage in Alberta.  That is why your local Blue Cross is beating down your door to sell health care coverage.

STUPENDOUS  PREDICTIONS  abound.  It is the true benchmark of the Conservatives. In their world it is not how much BS you throw but how much you make stick to the door that counts!

This time, last election: Our resource revenues were promised a pie in the sky increases in the "New Royalty Regime". Our royalty was 16% USD and US exchange was 18%.  They projected huge, impossible royalty increases exactly as they are doing this time! Same old show.

As it turned out, they changed our take from USD to Can $ in that document, a loss to this
province of 18% at the time! The purpose was to reduce royalty and only to reduce royalty. 
So much for promises from these guys. As Stelmach said in debate on that election, "we are
Conservatives. not like these other guys"

The original deal on royalty was 25% on a paid plant and only 1% while the plant was being
paid for.  Under this formula Alberta Taxpayers paid 100%  of these plants.  It was not a big
investment by no name oil industry types. It was 100% Alberta Taxpayer coin!

Since the last election however they have reduced our royalty from 16% (When their stated
target was 19% auditor Fred Dunn) to zilch!

Plant pay offs have nothing to do with their projected robbery.  Conservative idealism however is everything!

"INCREASES IN HEALTH CARE SPENDING" they say. No more chance than the proverbial snow ball in  hell!

They have every intention of totally privatizing our health care and doing away with Alberta
Health Care Coverage. This is where most your phantom billions are coming from!  That is why so many health care companies are now registered in Alberta after Alberta changed legislation to allow Private Coverage in Alberta.  That is why your local Blue Cross is beating down your door trying to sell you a private medical coverage policy and your TV is alive with health care coverage alternatives.


Reducing royalty to zero and privatizing anything that can be construed social is what these guys are all about!  Likewise the Wild Rose Party whose members now include those same people who authored the sacking of the Heritage Trust. WRP have a work for your welfare program on the drawing boards they don't mind talking about.  
If you think this is as good as it gets, think again!  Under Conservatives or WRP your future is very bleak! Alberta needs a new big, change!

The Liberal Budget on the other hand is non sensational, well thought out with the future
considered. We can operate without oppression and ripping off of public funds. Entirely doable not a sack of cover-ups and false promises like this budget. A very superior product.

The Liberals will not be sacking public pensions and considered unnecessary staff and consultants to make the budget!

It is time to support the Liberal Party of Alberta and reclaim this province for the
citizens while protecting and growing our industries and jobs. We don't have to be a one industry province!