Why Mr. Klein Will Not Get Martha's Vote
As this election gets closer and the nights get longer Martha and Henry have has been spending a little time going through the Auditor General’s Report. This is not how we spent our long nights together a few years ago but – well; - you know. The report is over 300 pages so it is not exactly light reading. But little by little Martha has been getting through it. There are about 30 reasons not to vote PC. I’m just going to tell you about a few that stuck out in my mind.
This election has been pretty short on policy talk and issue talk. Not that the opposition parties haven’t tried to engage Mr. Klein in a little discussion of such matters. But Mr. Klein is just not interested. One thing he did say, early in the campaign, was that he would get all the AISH abusers. Click here to review Albertan’s thoughts on that issue. Funny that the Auditor General didn’t pick up on this. His concern was that the private companies providing help to AISH recipients might be cheating, not the AISH recipients themselves. Perhaps Mr. Klein got them mixed up.
The Auditor General also pointed out that $82 million in royalties was refunded to oil companies based on incomplete and inaccurate data from the oil companies. This was on top of $517 million of “exempted, reduced or waived Crown royalties” which he questioned the necessity of. He had pointed out the same problems the year before but they were not fixed.
Seems to me, and the Auditor General, that the government would be more productive trying to stop giveaways in the Department of Energy rather than trying to nap the odd AISH felon.
In order to fund these “mistakes” we have to charge Albertans health care premiums which amount to $964M a year. Only Alberta and B.C. have this tax. Add in $40M a year to prop up the horse racing industry and a few other government pet projects and you pretty well have our health care premiums spent. So when a government runs on a slogan of “Proud to be Albertan” and asks us to look at their record and not talk about issues, then they better be ready to account for that record. And their record, of providing corporate welfare at the expense of welfare to people, does not make me a proud Albertan. In fact, it makes me a very discouraged Albertan.
I have no problem paying taxes when I know that the poor, homeless, and the disabled are getting some of my tax dollar. I have a huge problem with paying taxes when oil companies get refunds and royalty exemptions because the Department of Energy cannot do their job properly. It is time for some enlightened leadership and it is time to put a little money into the hands of Albertans who are struggling, instead of a lot of money into the hands of foreign owned oil companies.
The PC government has been in power for 33 years. They replaced an old and tired Social Credit government that really just cared about looking after themselves and their friends rather then helping people out. Seems to me that pretty well describes the PC government today.
That is why Mr. Klein and the PC's won't be getting Martha's vote this year.
This election has been pretty short on policy talk and issue talk. Not that the opposition parties haven’t tried to engage Mr. Klein in a little discussion of such matters. But Mr. Klein is just not interested. One thing he did say, early in the campaign, was that he would get all the AISH abusers. Click here to review Albertan’s thoughts on that issue. Funny that the Auditor General didn’t pick up on this. His concern was that the private companies providing help to AISH recipients might be cheating, not the AISH recipients themselves. Perhaps Mr. Klein got them mixed up.
The Auditor General also pointed out that $82 million in royalties was refunded to oil companies based on incomplete and inaccurate data from the oil companies. This was on top of $517 million of “exempted, reduced or waived Crown royalties” which he questioned the necessity of. He had pointed out the same problems the year before but they were not fixed.
Seems to me, and the Auditor General, that the government would be more productive trying to stop giveaways in the Department of Energy rather than trying to nap the odd AISH felon.
In order to fund these “mistakes” we have to charge Albertans health care premiums which amount to $964M a year. Only Alberta and B.C. have this tax. Add in $40M a year to prop up the horse racing industry and a few other government pet projects and you pretty well have our health care premiums spent. So when a government runs on a slogan of “Proud to be Albertan” and asks us to look at their record and not talk about issues, then they better be ready to account for that record. And their record, of providing corporate welfare at the expense of welfare to people, does not make me a proud Albertan. In fact, it makes me a very discouraged Albertan.
I have no problem paying taxes when I know that the poor, homeless, and the disabled are getting some of my tax dollar. I have a huge problem with paying taxes when oil companies get refunds and royalty exemptions because the Department of Energy cannot do their job properly. It is time for some enlightened leadership and it is time to put a little money into the hands of Albertans who are struggling, instead of a lot of money into the hands of foreign owned oil companies.
The PC government has been in power for 33 years. They replaced an old and tired Social Credit government that really just cared about looking after themselves and their friends rather then helping people out. Seems to me that pretty well describes the PC government today.
That is why Mr. Klein and the PC's won't be getting Martha's vote this year.
posted by Martha & Henry at 1:02 PM
1 Comments:
Where the hell is the media in this election anyway.There are enough stories of governemnt waste and cronyism in the Auditor General's report to fill the papers for a year. Maybe the media people are just overwhelmed or maybe they are lazy. Regardless, these stories are not getting the publicity they deserve.
If Albertans knew half the truth of it the only people voting for Klein would be those making $100K a year or more because the rest of us are getting screwed.
Poor and pissed off in Ponoka
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