Fair Share??

[coppertop]

I've been too busy to check out this site for a few days, but this post intrigues me. As Ivebin says my sons have been very busy and fortunate working in the resource industry. One will remain busy, but the other has already been advised that some of his winter work program is being put on HOLD. My son's and I do not agree on the royalty issue, in fact, we have agreed to put the subject in the PARKING LOT when in each other's company.

The Premier got handed a mess as far as royalties go from Ralph, and he had the guts to order the royalty review, make it public and act on it.
Stocks haven't tumbled into the toilet, in fact, some, including the company my #2 son consults for have increased.
There was a downturn in the drilling industry long before this issue arose, rigs have been sitting idle all year, but it is convenient to now blame Ed.

To put it plain and simple, I am a lot more concerned about the future of the cattle producers in our Province than I am in the fallout from the new royalties.

[ivbinconned]

And on that point I hope that the dollar keeps climbing to the point that some canadian enity will buy the packing plants.

[Burbert]

Review was long overdue, thanks for the firesale (to date) Ralph. Alberta deserves the better deal that has been outlined by P Stelmach. Now lets address the issue of pollution, caused by oil & gas guys. Land, rivers, streams, and lakes used/abused by industry. Fresh water depleted and ruined. The air quality we suck in, being ruined. Enough buck passing. LETS DO SOMETHING! How about it PM Harp, not just a continuing release of hot air, which by the way contributes to global warming. The economy is very important, but not the only thing that makes for a decent life in Kanadia.

[spudchucker]

Easterners like me came to Alberta to make money working in the oilfield. We didn't come out to shovel S*%& for bitter old ranchers for $5/hour.
Anybody on this forum including they naysayers cannot deny that the province would be a backwater of dying little towns without the oilfield but I guess that would make them happy.
Wilagro says he wants everyone who gets ahead to pay more? Kind of takes away the incentive to work harder doesn't it?
When I left PEI in 94 to find work in the oilfield, I called a bunch of guys back there to come on out as there was money for the taking. They are still back there 13 years later collecting unemployment. I guess they are getting their "fair share" of my tax dollars.

[ivbinconned]

One would have to be a narrow minded shallow thinker, driven by envy and jealousy, to not acknowledge the fact that those good paying oil and gas sector jobs are an indirect kind of "royalty"! That you don’t work there Willy and Burburt…is your choice!

Try to look at the big picture!!Not just whats in it for little old me.

While socialists are always building castles in the sky, capitalists and free enterprisers build them on the ground.

[wilagro]

For gawds sake ivbinconned, I AM A CAPITALIST. I bought my farm with real money, I equipped my farm with real money, I broke up land and employed real money to do so. So stick it in your ear.

Because I would like to see realistic royalties paid to the province for tar sands exploitation, you go on that socialism rant again.

Increased royalties will not decrease the high wages that "spudsucker" gets. Nobody said "cut the oil workers wages". Even executives in the Calgary offices for these oil companies ADMIT that it won't affect their bottom line...they have already made multi-billions under old Ralph's weak scheme.

Bleeding this province dry of oil without proper compensation to US is unforgivable. Oil hit $93 a barrel today and the current royalty scheme returns a pittance.

[ivbinconned]

You always have response...but you never comment on the point!!

Which is....
"...those good paying, oil and gas sector jobs are an indirect kind of "royalty"! RIGHT!

You should be thankful that monies are paid into the economy through industry...where the trickle down impact has been significant, and not through the government.

In Saskatchewan, the NDP, after fifty years finally appear to have seen the light...or is it because the death of their regime is at hand. The prosperity of Alberta can no longer be ignored. It is where our kids work, where the heath care system is fifteen years ahead of ours. Where the roads are in far better shape. Where the taxes are lower…all of them!!

What defines you as a socialist Willagrow is the fact that you have such faith in government...especially an interventionist government...a "conservative" government...led by a pink Tory!! That says it all.

You dismiss the writers of every article I post yet I suspect they are much more attuned to the ramifications of the actions of your premier who is more interested in "governing" that getting a mandate from the people!!! Some democrat!

[spudchucker]

Wilagro
If you have to resort to making crude and vulgar permutations of my posting name then I think you are a poor excuse for a human being. It shows your level of intelligence.

[wilagro]

Oh sorry "spudchucker", my mistake. Guess I should have checked back to your original posting.

[wilagro]

ivbinconned: Thank goodness Stelmach is a "pink" Tory. About time we had a Premier interested in "governing" instead of "selling" us out to the lowest bidder.

I was thinking of retiring (again), to Saskatchewan...what area would you recommend? Seems like a nice province with cheaper car insurance rates and real estate values not driven sky-high because of inflationary pressures as in Alberta. High-speed internet to most good sized towns and cities would be nice too.

[spudchucker]

Apology accepted

[ivbinconned]

Oh you should move as close to the government tit as possible...Regina.

Come on over and you will find very high real-estate prices here too.
But beware...you seem to be oblivious of a few things....in 2002 more than 40 percent of Saskatchewan’s budget was not accounted for in the main books, the provincial budget!! Enron and World Com have nothing on these NDP bums! And they get a free ride from the leftist media.

As for cheap Auto insurance...think again! You get what you pay for. The average claim payout in Saskatchewan is $4135 compared to $11,895 in Alberta. Cheap? Right...cheap coverage...with high deductable!

SGI is the only Government insurance Crown on the planet that has a salvage division!!! It makes millions only because it gets first crack at salvage for practically nothing, freezing out the private sector.

Just imaging if on your farm...all you inputs were free!!! You would look like a genius.

Makes it easy to fool the gullible.