Alberta #Kudatah

[FarmRanger]

<i>"farmers should have different rules than everyone else"</i>
In some areas I would think definitely yes, most industrial sites don't have children and famillies living on them. The NDP rammed the legislation through with no consultatiion or thought about that though. When farmers started driving tractors down the 2 toward Edmonton, the only parts of the legislation the NDP started backing away from were the parts that didn't actually matter to them, like safefy, with the family farm exemption, despite the fact that the vast majority of accidents on farms are happening to the owners and their families.
So please don't tell me that its the farmers who've lost face in the Bill 6 deal, thats just the party spin that you're obviously buying into.

The "our side can do bad stuff because the previous guys did" argument doesn't hold much value with me either. I didn't like the PCs bad stuff either, despite foragefamers wrongly trying to pigeonhole me as a card carrying PC. It appears however, to have only taken the NDs a few months to surpass the arrogance of the 42 year PCs.

[foragefarmer]

Farmranger

" I didn't like the PCs bad stuff either, despite foragefamers wrongly trying to pigeonhole me as a card carrying PC."

How can anybody come to any other conclusion from reading your posts throughout Agriville. You have done an excellent job of creating that label for yourself, so don't put the blame on me. You even revert to the Conservative tactics used towards anybody disagreeing with them, on any topic, which is calling them "Socialist" or "Elitists". Farmranger, reread your posts on this thread, you typed it. Not quite sure why this is necessary on your part, just because I don't agree with all of your political views! Good Day!!

[Hamloc]

The NDP new guidelines for Alberta schools would probably be considered wacky by some of us.

The biggest concern I have is what will this years deficit be and how does the NDP plan to fix the future lack of revenue. They projected a 6 billion dollar deficit at 50 USD oil, I think we could see a 8 or 9 billion dollar deficit. The problem I have with the present structure of the proposed carbon taxis that it creates an income redistribution element with the rebates and it creates a fund that government can use to pick winners and losers in industry but does nothing for revenue. It is likely that we will have an extended period higher unemployment and certainly a longer period of low royalty returns which can't be fixed with the usual increases in sin taxes and user fees..Forget the carbon tax and bring in a 5% sales tax. Large amounts of government debt take money from government programs for debt servicing. Government wages may have to be looked at as well due to wage rollbacks in the private sector. Unfortunately Alberta's party is over and it is time to face reality. Have a good day:-)

[FarmRanger]

foragefarmer: when grassfarmer was ridiculing farmers who don't agree with him by calling them rednecks, I did call him out as acting like an elitist, not because it was "any topic", but because its elitist to make fun of someone because you think you're better than they are.
You, however, make assumptions and jump to conclusions placing people in political parties because they disagree with your political views and then act incredulous when they call you out on it.
You can leave the "FarmRanger dislikes socialism" in that extensive file you've got on me though. There's no better way for a nation to sucks the wealth creating initiative out of it's citizens than instituting socialism.

[perfecho]

Do agree with the sales tax, although, those who are sore at the ND power will certainly explode....
My understanding is that the carbon tax is to go mostly into research...and it does give the optics Alberta is on the "save our world" bandwagon, which believe or not is more acceptable to the world.
The picking winners is one that gets me as well.....Harper did it with our version of QE, the old regime here certainly did it....and this gov leans towards the union side of thing...maybe its a "years of right and then years of left" to balance things....

[burnt]

Except that there are no years of "right" governance any more.

Thanks to the influence of special interest/activist groups, it is a steady diet of left and more extreme left government, precluding any return to centrist or right side policy.

The current federal and most provincial governments are now merely extensions of far-left policies that will implement their dictatorial ideologies regardless of the cost.

Even the public school curriculum is nothing but leftist, ultra-liberal propaganda, developed and enforced by the likes of our esteemed lesbian Premier Kathleen Wynne and her side-kick, convicted and self-confessed child pornographer Ben Levin.

Or this, a description of the leftist propaganda that kids in school are taught today:

[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq0YIktzxqg"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq0YIktzxqg[/URL]

These are the debauched people who are determining the direction our country is taking.

To support such while trying to paint yourself as balanced or a moderate is a telling statement in itself.

[grassfarmer]

A matter of perspective burnt. I believe the mainstream media tends to roughly reflect public opinion over the years. The electorate reckoned they had been too far right for too long so thought a correction was needed. It's a democracy, that's what happens. To cry that there can never be a right wing Government again due to biased "left wing" media is just totally false. The next election is a reset button for the electorate to express their wishes. The people are not generally wrong over the long haul despite what it may look like to you with "your side" not winning.

[burnt]

A matter of perspective grassfarmer, is whether the MSM reflects public opinion, or leads it. Whichever, a steady social decay is at work.

"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within." Ariel Durant