Oil is a great source of income - when it's market is up. But as other's have said, only an idiot would expect the market to constantly be up. Currently American's are whinging that their cattle prices are down because of imports from Brazil. They aren't looking past their noses to see that global cattle prices are down. Well Alberta, lets look past our noses and see the picture globally.
Prices crashed pre NDP. The industry crashed pre Trudeau. Are they doing things that everyone thinks are helpful? Naw, but you can't please everyone. They have their goals and are aiming for them just as the Conservatives had their goals and aimed for them.
Can't say the Conservatives, either Alberta, or Federal, left the province in any good standing with their heavy reliance on oil incomes.
Personally, I have little pity for the oil fellas who raked in the dough for how many years but can't live on EI and need it extended? Have they never heard of savings accounts? And none of them want to take the pay cut and work at wages the rest of us have worked at. I think the last quote I seen was Canada was short 60 or 80, 000 farm employees. But nobody wants to work Ag because the price cut hurts and lack of benefits (Yet lets argue about Bill 6?)
And while the moaning went on about Alberta's economy being in the shitter, records were broke for prices in Ag and tourism profits were still through the roof while retail was doing quite good. Ag has come down since then (My poor cows!) but our low dollar is still helping tourism and retail quite well. Truth is, our economy isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be, just one industry that was so heavily relied on is, so it's making the ship list to the side.
Change isn't made in good times. In good times you prance about with your deficit free banner and send cheques to everyone because you have money to burn and that's what makes the voters happy. It takes bad times for change to happen and then it's the people instigating change who are at fault and the East who's at fault and everyone under the sun except us. I, for one, am not totally against the new regime. I think we have 9 spare fingers to put in other pies and invest with instead of just fisting oil.
Prices crashed pre NDP. The industry crashed pre Trudeau. Are they doing things that everyone thinks are helpful? Naw, but you can't please everyone. They have their goals and are aiming for them just as the Conservatives had their goals and aimed for them.
Can't say the Conservatives, either Alberta, or Federal, left the province in any good standing with their heavy reliance on oil incomes.
Personally, I have little pity for the oil fellas who raked in the dough for how many years but can't live on EI and need it extended? Have they never heard of savings accounts? And none of them want to take the pay cut and work at wages the rest of us have worked at. I think the last quote I seen was Canada was short 60 or 80, 000 farm employees. But nobody wants to work Ag because the price cut hurts and lack of benefits (Yet lets argue about Bill 6?)
And while the moaning went on about Alberta's economy being in the shitter, records were broke for prices in Ag and tourism profits were still through the roof while retail was doing quite good. Ag has come down since then (My poor cows!) but our low dollar is still helping tourism and retail quite well. Truth is, our economy isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be, just one industry that was so heavily relied on is, so it's making the ship list to the side.
Change isn't made in good times. In good times you prance about with your deficit free banner and send cheques to everyone because you have money to burn and that's what makes the voters happy. It takes bad times for change to happen and then it's the people instigating change who are at fault and the East who's at fault and everyone under the sun except us. I, for one, am not totally against the new regime. I think we have 9 spare fingers to put in other pies and invest with instead of just fisting oil.
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