Sask Party Platform Welfare for Oil, Wake up

[riders2010]

Both parties shown they are duds, free ride Wallys answer to low oil prices is just give our overpaid oil workers more ei welfare until we can start a war or something to raise price of oil. What about all the other sectors that are suffering? the oil puppet doesn't give a dam about any other sector.
And bRottens lets just help everybody idea sound good but where is the long term plan?

Neither has any idea of where the province should be headed. Low dollar and interest rates is a massive opportunity for development in other sectors. Spread the economy out.

where was talk about solutions to transportation? where was talk about dealing with the natives?

The only difference between the two is one has proven he has no capeabilities of running anything. Our massive debt is being hidden in creative accounting the shit will hit the fan come summer.

[bucket]

Could put oil workers to work on farms with the right program.

Maybe some would stick it out and bring the average age if farmers down.

Revitalize the rural communities.

[farmaholic]

How much time and energy would you spend trying to figure out what the Libs, PCs and Greens stand for in this election. Could you imagine if the debate would have had 3 more voices talking over each other.

We really are quite diversified. Potash, Oil, Ag, Manufacturing, Mining...just to name afew, those are all Industries that can bring new money into the economy... not recycle old money through welfare and other parasitic social programs. Government social programs are not an Industry that contributes any new money but "redistributes" what is already there.

[bucket]

Evraz got a good amount from the saskatchewan government. .. then they shut down some other plants.

[SASKFARMER3]

Yet you hove NDP that Work at EVRAZ that actually are against the pipe lines. Man some union grunts are real precious.

[bucket]

Guys that I have talked to on the floor at evraz have never said they are against a pipeline but we were at the welding station of the spiral mill.

Might be a bit of a biased opinion at that point.

Any union guy I have spoke to over the years at the steel plant or rail worker have never seemed to me to be an ndp supporter. They enjoyed their jobs. Had a good sense of what we were talking about ...made light of what was going on and generally cared about the community of saskatchewan as a whole.

But maybe I met the wrong guys.

[boarderbloke]

Riders take a breath, the envy you have inside you for being left out of the oilfield area will destroy you. So many posts about the same thing, repeated, over and over.
farma is right, our prov. economy is really quite diversified.
A couple billion spent to pay off Sask debt using close to par dollars, can you image paying off that debt now using 70 cent dollars, think how much more that would cost us.

[macdon02]

They should start a program where they re-educate the oil field workers into the education and healthcare system. Give them the helping hand to start a new career. I'd love to see a driller or Derrickhand moulding our kids. Could forget about this touchy feely are you sure you're a boy atmosphere. Second place is first loser and that just wasn't ****ing good enough! They'd probably cause the breakup of most of the unions. Totally love the idea of integrating these folks back into mainstream society, we need them now more then ever.

[blackpowder]

A fresh new idea with a Moses moment. Awesome!
Think of all the new govt jobs counselling those with hurt feelings. And the money saved all crapping in the same john. Woohoo I love it.

[riders2010]

the oilfield workers won t go and work at other jobs that the rest of us get paid to do, they want to continue to be overpaid overtime double living expenses paid to and from work on and on. They cant make a living using the rates of pay everyone else gets. The rest of the people work just to pay that stupid price at the pumps and when the fuel goes up the taxes on that go up and then free ride wally tells everyone the taxes are so low. hahaha

[blackpowder]

Well that may be partly true. But your issues are your own.
Hell, I've had some highly govt paid specialists tell me my time with my children must be all about "fun" or they wont want to be with me.
And then, I know some other highly paid specialists working with people who cant work because it isnt fun!
What *** mess would you rather clean up riders?

[WiltonRanch]

Riders have you ever worked in the patch or lived in a patch town? I assume you live on the east side of the province where wages are lower and agriculture is the main driver. You complain about high oil wages and guys blowing their money. Yes it's hard for us in the ag economy to compete with this but it is also hard to shoulder the economy ourselves when there are no other industries around to shoulder the burden or high paid oil wages blowing money into the economy. Yes there guys who made $200000 a year with little to show but there are also lots who bust their asses and risk their lives to save money and live within their means. Besides all these high paying oil workers are taking pay cuts to keep their jobs. The biggest reason oil jobs pay higher is because of a competitive labour market. Now there are more workers and fewer jobs so companies can cut wages and rates on contractors. My family members who haul oil have seen a 30% reduction in their haul rates to keep working. They're still making it work. So when I see some generalized comments about oilfield workers being overpaid scum I am taken aback. Just because people live so far from oil activity and don't see how much money it contributes to the economy in jobs,royalties, wellhead tax, and income taxes. I am completely ignorant about potash and mining in general as I am about what goes on in east Saskatchewan but I don't start slamming the people who work in that industry or those in unions.

[riders2010]

East sask is likely worse off than here.
and you make the point, if you are in oil life is good. But if not all that the oil has done is drive up the costs for us. It has not seemed to provide more money than expand roads etc into areas where they are developing oil. All those years of high oil prices we should be seeing huge benefits everywhere in the province, and I just doen t see it. And in one short year the province is broke? There should be oil in the province but if you re going to go all in there better be benefits to everyone not just those in it because indirectly it is costing the rest of us lots.

[riders2010]

East sask is likely worse off than here.
and you make the point, if you are in oil life is good. But if not all that the oil has done is drive up the costs for us. It has not seemed to provide more money than expand roads etc into areas where they are developing oil. All those years of high oil prices we should be seeing huge benefits everywhere in the province, and I just doen t see it. And in one short year the province is broke? There should be oil in the province but if you re going to go all in there better be benefits to everyone not just those in it because indirectly it is costing the rest of us lots.

[riders2010]

East sask is likely worse off than here.
and you make the point, if you are in oil life is good. But if not all that the oil has done is drive up the costs for us. It has not seemed to provide more money than expand roads etc into areas where they are developing oil. All those years of high oil prices we should be seeing huge benefits everywhere in the province, and I just doen t see it. And in one short year the province is broke? There should be oil in the province but if you re going to go all in there better be benefits to everyone not just those in it because indirectly it is costing the rest of us lots.