What is a Klein Tory?

[cowman]

some of the fiscal responsibility exhibited by the current government included cut backs. The poop is hitting the fan in the area of long term care, which in my view suffered dearly from the choice to regionalize health care. Some health regions elected to build office space, hire more support staff, build fancy foyer's in the hospitals and not add one long term care bed !!!

I hope that the current review of long term care facilities leaves no stone unturned in getting to the bottom of issues that have been raised and my bet is that provincial cut backs is one key problem.

It is great to balance the budget, pay off the debt, and Klein deserves credit for doing so, but the Alberta advantage isn't helping everyone and its time to make some changes and have a vision for the future .

[SW1-32-5-4]

In 1935 William Aberheart said" If the people of Alberta haven't suffered enough, it's their God given right to suffer some more." It still holds true today. Lets go Ted Morton!!!!

[cowman]

When Ralph Klein first was elected, on the promise of slashing spending, I did not vote for him because I figured he was all talk! I did vote for him the second time around...because I believed he deserved a chance to finish the job and hey, he kept his promises!
Of course he promptly started to backslide and spend more money! Today the Tories are on a spending spree like a bunch of drunken sailors!
The real reason Alberta is out of debt is not good responsible spending but an infusion of cash like we've never seen before! It would be pretty hard for any government to piss away the money rolling in today!...although I bet an NDP or Liberal government could take a good crack at it!
Ralph is an excellent politician...probably the best we'll ever see? And I am not adverse to some of his ideas. For instance I believe he has the right approach when he tries to bring reality back into the medical health situation? And points out how much of the budget is being spent on education and health care? The fact is without some sort of control on these costs we are eventually headed for a meltdown?
How much money is spent on education and health costs? Where does it end? Is 60% of the budget enough? How about 70%? Do we keep cutting infrastructure and other programs to pour more money into a black hole that always clamors for more?
Personally I don't believe either education or medical health should be the responsibility of the government, but obviously I am not with the majority in the nanny state!

[cowman]

I have said previously that I feel there is ample funding for both health and education, but there should be checks and balances on a regular basis to ensure that school boards and health regions are spending the largest chunk of their budgets ensuring that health care is delivered adequately.