Lack of leadership/vision

[TOM4CWB]

grassy,

Prentice is just preparing you... with a sliver of the attitude... you will encounter in your new home. Enjoy Alberta Pride... while you still have a smidgen left!

[Horse]

Cotton I know I will get holy old shit but here goes anyway,There is no business run as eneficantly as the oil biz not even gov. I have worked in and live in and around oil and it would make a grown man cry to see how they do things. Take a new D7 app $500,000, $240/hr 2000 hr per yr in less than 2 yrs paid for and still worth $300,000, track hoes even better return If you get the work it all turns to gold, jelous mabey and then mabey I would just like a level field to play on. We all have to make a living somehow.
Sure they pay big wages so the gov can tax the employes kind of like the local coop charging 25% more at purchase and paying 5% back in divs,does that make sence?
The gov takes its royalties on profit not on wellhead so sure you can pay the boys all you want because technily thats gov money anyway
As for gov I reaLY HAD HOPED FOR A NEW GOV TO BOW TO BUT i GUESS OIL DONT WANT A NEW SO WE WILL ALL DIE UNDER THE cON THUMB, IS THAT ALL BAD,NO BUT THAT DONT MAKE IT ALL GGO EITHER. Sorry fat thumbs.

[abeorike]

maybe they should do what they did in Minnisota,gov balanced the budget in a short time by increasing the taxes on the rich and the corporations. Did not hurt the economy at all. Some one has to pay sooner or latter.

[rockpile]

"It's all your fault", shouted Jimmie, as he whizzed by in his vintage 56 T-Bird that he bought at Barrett-Jackson in January as lay offs begin to escalate throughout Alberta's oil, gas and construction industries.

[iceman]

Prentice needs to mandate the railways to move more oil!!! It's in the best interest of the province goddammit

Or u could always keep the annual rental of surface leases on crown land. Instead of giving it to the cowboys. Or should I say buying votes with it

[Horse]

Careful iceman the natives on here get hostile when you mention Welfare Cowboys.

[iceman]

Horse, heaven forbid the Handoutboys had to take a balance sheet write down on the million year government lease because they actually never owned the land. OH THE HUMANITY!!!
Just squatting basically. Good thing Alberta still has squatter rights.

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[perfecho]

The majority of the deficit could have been fixed by returning to 15% corporate tax rate.....companies wouldn't have left.
The majority of MLA's wanted this...Redford said no...don't you love the democratic system.
What gets me, we have had the richest province for quite a number of years, but as soon as prices waiver, we are in a crisis...great management ...NOT!
Tax reform for buddies, tax credits for buddies and we can't survive a little dip in prices. Farmers survived BSE, but Alberta is only into a price decline for a few months, and we are in big trouble.....
And, although some will think me a fool, most of this started with Klein after he did in the deficit....

[binthere]

litle dip in prices and only short lived. halliburton eliminating jobs permanently lloydminster. trinidad drilling cutting capital expendtures 50%. better buckle up for the rough ride. the indicators are all in place for a long ride down before we go up again.

[perfecho]

Oh, I agree this could be a major....however that really wasn't my point.....my point is it has been mismanaged for years.....Ralph was even taking the interest out of the Heritage Trust for general revenues.
I can't believe how quickly the government coffers are in trouble.....