Alberta #Kudatah

[grassfarmer]

Things are awfully quiet on here about the other Alberta right-wing wing-nut antics this week. Where are all the PC, Wildrose and Jokemedia supporters of George Clark?
TOM you like being in front of the cameras - were you one of the faithful handful right beside George in the Walmart parking lot?

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[dalek]

Is somebody thinking of a coup d'etat?

[grassfarmer]

Yes, one of the redneck geniuses thought that was how you spelled it.

[ajl]

Nobody with a still functioning brain is getting within 500 miles of an NDP party membership. We don t want a changed NDP, we just want the NDP gone. There is a simple solution. Anyone who works for the government does not get the right to vote until they leave government employment. After all an election has to be about more than the public sector union pay increases.

[grassfarmer]

Redneck idea #2. Withhold the vote from those who don't agree with your political views.

Should farmers also be excluded from voting because they might vote for a party offering favourable agricultural policies?

[FarmRanger]

<i>"Should farmers also be excluded from voting because they might vote for a party offering favourable agricultural policies?"</i>
Possibly, if those farmer derived their entire income from the taxpayer.

If we're excluding people from voting, lets start with condescending elitists who like to call their neighbours Rednecks.

[Hamloc]

Well said Farmranger. Interesting to note that he emigrated to Canada from a country that the latest statistics show farmers receiving 74% of their income in the form of subsidies from the EU. Not sure why he despises those of us that lean center right!?

[blackpowder]

Phew! Glad somebody said it.

[sumdumguy]

Its not all about who voted NDP, its about what government blew it. A government in power for decades ought to know how not to piss off the masses. Their advisors failed them.

[grassfarmer]

Possibly, if those farmer derived their entire income from the taxpayer.

If we're excluding people from voting, lets start with condescending elitists who like to call their neighbours Rednecks.

How about those condescending elitists who like to call their neighbours Village Idiots? Guess that's different hey?

Seriously though what is the point of this line of thinking? 2014 electorate lists show 2,342,550 voters registered. The latest figures I could find show 346,520 public sector employees so under 15% of the voter role. Not like its the majority who can steer Government direction and if it had been don't you think they would have controlled previous Governments? Like the Kudatah mastermind's project this thinking doesn't make sense.

[FarmRanger]

With a voter turnout hovering around 50%, that means your 15% may be as high as 30% ov the votes. In addition, the Alberta gov't has added 47,000 government jobs to the payroll at a time when the private sector is bleeding massive layoffs. There is only one party that campaigns on a platform to strrengthen union powers, and adding 47,000 public servants to AUPE will only benefit the NDP.
Not only that, but who doea the public sector union bosses negotiate with for therir compensation packages? You guessed it, the NDP. So we have the situation where the NDP and the AUPE are on the same side negotiating how much their friends who helped get them elected get paid, and no one is there the behalf of taxpayers who don't have a seat at the table.

The fox is truly in charge of the henhouse, and the slaughter has been brutal.
I'm not saying i agree, but tthat is why it's not such a far fetched idea to restrict the the rights to vote for public sector unions. There is a real incentive to greatly increase the size and cost of government for the benefit of "union friendly governments". We can't afford it economically, nor democratically through the vastly increased power given to public sector unions. Adding 47,000 public sector jobs in a time of devastation to our economy is just a symptom of this.

Always remember that gov't doesn't create wealth, but they can sure consume it, and create policies that make it more difficult for the rest of us to create it (Bill 6). I'm afraid the remaining Alberta taxpayers are going to get devoured to feed this ever growing beast, and there's still over 3 years left of it. Sigh.

[Hamloc]

Premier Notley has stated that 60% of Albertans paying the proposed carbon tax will recieve rebates. Now is this vote buying or income redistribution or both? And if you rebate 60% of it what effect does it have on changing our use of carbon based energy?

[fjlip]

But has to REALLY hurt the other 40% that don't vote for her. Totally dumb idea, why not a carrot instead of a stick beating consumers into change? If it makes sense, smart people will change. This must not make sense...

[foragefarmer]

Farmranger Hamloc

Alberta had 44 years of PC government and you both have done move complaining in 8 months about the current NDP government than the entire 44 years the PC government was in power. You both seem to have forgotten that many mistakes were made by the PC governments of Alberta prior to the NDP government taking over. Do you not remember Stelmach, Redford and Prentice?

It all boils down to one issue, you can't except that the party you support is no longer in power. That applies federally as well,as many comments made on here resonate from the Harper Con/Reform ideologies.

[grassfarmer]

I guess it's a symptom of having a one-party state for too long. Large segments of the electorate don't seem to have an idea of what democracy is or how it is supposed to work. The losing side trying to overthrow the majority Government duly elected by the people of Alberta. When that crazy plan descends into chaos and ridicule you start talking about removing the right to vote from certain segments of the electorate based on their career choice. What next ? removing the vote from women because you don't think Notley is fit to govern? excluding those with different religious views?
In the same week you complain of alleged threat to the freedom of speech you are advocating taking the vote away from other Albertans?