Question for Mustardman

[Hamloc]

Mustard, one lesson to be learned, government attempts to diversify the economy only result in debt accumulation and decades of repayment for the mistakes. Ontario is a good example, Alberta will be the next. For some reason someone always thinks they are smarter than market forces, market forces always win. People who are elected to public office are our piers with no greater intelligence than the rest of us but for some reason we are willing to let them waste billions of our dollars, it really is insane.

[mustardman]

Hamloc don't forget the biggest subsidized industry in Canada and the world for that matter is
The Oil industry

490 billion worldwide

Why not Cut their subsidies and put that towards more sustainable sources??

[Hamloc]

Mustard, the majority of this subsidy is made up of uncollected taxes which at present don't exist such as carbon taxes and is really a theoretical number not an actual monetary subsidy to the production of oil. It is a number that enviro's love to throw around to justify the real money governments will have to come up with to make other forms of energy competitive. I am not against low carbon energy production, I simply believe the technology isn't as affordable, again this has been proven in Ontario as an example.

[Braveheart]

Roy had a hamburger named after him in a diner in Davidson.

[mustardman]

Caseih. Well if you were born in a barn and have Never seen a doctor in your life ,then Allan Blakeney did nothing for you.

BUT if you have ever been to a Dr. and used public healthcare then say thanks to allan as he was Minister of Health when it came in.

Oh and as premier he had a Balanced budget every year and a sizeable heritage fund

[seabass]

Dont forget piss poor infrastructure mussy.

[mustardman]

We have more roads than any other province in Canada . Our roads if this what your inferring ,were good .
That is until the Feds ended the crow rate and then with rail being tore up and elevators centralizing
Of course roads need to be rebuilt at the same time as we are Bankrupt ( after Grant)
I found it funny that people blamed the NDP for the roads when the Libs,and Conservatives ended grain transportation by rail.

[farmaholic]

Re: Grain on the roads instead of the rails.

Interesting to see how much gravel is trucked into the city east of Regina. There are some good pits east of the city.... I bet there are more tonnes of gravel shipped west to Regina down this highway than there is grain down that same stretch. So, the damage on this 50-60 km stretch can't all be blamed on grain. But they've willing to do what ever it takes to build the city.

[sumdumguy]

She'll be a mountain of gravel. There's lots of gravel east of the city. Lucky guys who have it. See, every dog has his day.

[wmoebis]

The difference is that gravel is hauled on roads in trucks running commercial plates and paying road tax on fuel. That extra income helps to repair roads.

I was told that Gov'ts are looking at this issue.

[LEP]

Oh yes mustard the NDP were messiahs they built all those paved roads.

Actually they built them on the cheap, I mean real cheap.

The road past my farm is a thin membrane road that was repaired two years ago. They came in and ground up the pavement and mixed in an oil and gravel mix and then repack it.

The contractor was shocked there wasn't even gravel under the pavement. This was done in the late 1970's.

Oh ya the provincial debt when Devine came in was heaped on the crowns. Saying there was no debt is BS.

[Guest]

as I said , "how any rural farmer can badmouth Devine " is beyond my realm of thinking . we didn't have a highway left in this country , or anything else for that matter when Devine got in . pretty easy to balance the budget when you do SFA for the people that are creating the wealth