So its no big surprise I think that I still follow Alberta politics and have a personal interest in the province doing well. I have family there. I have friends there. I even still to this day "had" planed to move back there at a certain point (this election might effect that in the long term but to early to tell on that front). Alberta has always been my home.
Until yesterday that is.
Now I am truly fearful of the future for my family, friends, even acquaintances because the REAL HISTORY regarding the consequences for the foolish actions of last nights election have been widely ignored by very ill informed (or out right uninformed) voters.
Alberta entered the election to RIGHTFULLY punish the PC Party who had maintained power there for 44 years. The PC party under Redford was at worst corrupt, or at best incompetent, either way she had to be removed. But when she was removed, what replaced her was arrogant, delusional, and also held no loyalty to the ideas and concepts of the past PC parties who grew and maintained the province so well.
Make no mistake, the Alberta PC party needed to be sent a message. A loud message. A clear message. A wake up call to get your house in order and stop with all the bullshit and self entitled corruption and arrogance that had been on display over the last number of years since Ralph Klein handed over the reigns of a very healthy and out of debt province.
But in sending that message the voters of Alberta seem to have lost their collective minds because they gave a majority to the very party who holds the least amount in common with Alberta traditions and values and whose federal Party Line has always been to destroy the very industry that allowed Alberta to profit and grow and become "A HAVE PROVINCE".
Personally I just do not get it. If I'm against Animal Cruelty, I don't protest a shelter becoming a kill shelter by going out and killing and abusing a bunch of animals. OF COURSE NOT. No sound mind would make that leap from one end to the other out of protest. I protest that shelter specifically while not abandoning my values and beliefs and Morales.
But in effect that's what Alberta did, they mortgaged their long term future and well being by electing the very party that wants to go out and abuse the very industries that allowed Alberta to become successful.
And they did so while FALSELY claiming they knew and understood what they were doing.
They might have thought they knew what they were doing (I read a ton of false, fictional, and outright misleading propaganda coming from NDP supporters over last little while, so maybe they thought this fantasy crap was legit, I really do not know), but they were very wrong.
And believing falsified propaganda does not make one educated or informed.
Sadly it makes them anything but educated and informed.
Anyways, that's not exactly what I wanted to talk about. There was a TON of chatter last night as blind NDP supports cheered the NDP win (seriously read some of the stupidest claims made last night by those cheering the NDP. ) and anytime anyone mentioned the predictable reaction of industry in Alberta. They all (like mindless lemmings all under one strange mind control spell) would arrogantly respond with how industry will not move from Alberta and NDP will not go after industry
Seriously people, did you even READ the NDP platform????? Part of their platform was
"Sharing a greater portion of the Oil revenues through higher corporate taxation and operating fees"
News flash folks, that's been tried before and failed spectacularly.
And not only did it fail, it drove industry out of that province until the leader and his party were completely removed from the equation causing economic disaster for the province during the duration.
But you would know this if you truly were INFORMED (as some claimed to be)
"In 1996, Tobin resigned from federal politics to succeed Clyde Wells as leader of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland. The Liberal Party won a large majority government later that year. During his time as premier Tobin pursued tough negotiations with out-of-province companies seeking to export resources for refining and smelting elsewhere. He insisted that the resources will never be mined unless Newfoundlanders received secondary manufacturing and tertiary service spin-offs. A similar tough stance was taken in seeking to develop the Lower Churchill River" Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Tobin
The Alberta NDP platform on how it will share the wealth and stick it to big business is almost word for word copy from the Brian Tobin Liberal era in Newfoundland.
and as mentioned, industry there just shrugged at his demands and closed up shop (or minimized to a point they were not a issue anymore) until he was out of the equation. At the cost of jobs, security, over all well being.
"Newfoundland ends Voisey's talks indefinitely
MICHELLE MACAFEE
TWILLINGATE, Nfld. (CP) - Premier Brian Tobin won't be sending his
negotiating team for further talks with Inco to develop the Voisey's Bay nickel
project, a move that could see the development shelved indefinitely.
Tobin said Thursday he has notified Inco chairman Michael Sopko that further
discussions are pointless until the company is willing to "bring a far more
progressive" package to the table.
"Quite frankly, Inco now needs to report in a full and forthright way to its
board of directors and receive a new mandate for negotiations to take place,
or take steps as a company to put the project on hold," Tobin said during a
tour of rural Newfoundland.
"There is no tolerance or acceptance within government, or outside it, for the
kind of proposal now on the table."
Inco's board of directors are scheduled to meet Monday.
Tobin said he wants to make sure the directors have a complete and accurate
picture of the project's status.
This latest move by Tobin is a stronger assertion of comments he made last
week that suggested an agreement could not be reached based on Inco's
current proposal.
It was also learned Thursday that the Newfoundland government is exploring
the legalities of taxing Inco based on a "fallow-field" principle - essentially
charging them for every year they leave the rich ore deposit untouched.
Confidentiality agreements have prevented either side from specifying what the
stumbling blocks to a deal are.
But Tobin said negotiations can't begin again until it's clear Inco sees a future
for itself in Newfoundland.
The province also refuses to budge on its pledge that 100 per cent of the
smeltering and refining be done in the province.
Inco, which is struggling with slumping nickel prices, has said it can no longer
afford such an option and would prefer to process at least part of the ore at its
existing facilities.
"In our view, it's time for a reality check," said Tobin.
"If this means the project is held up for one year, two years or 25 years, it's a
price the people of Newfoundland are willing to pay."
The news that talks could be suspended for such a time will be a blow to the
communities set to reap the employment and spinoff benefits of the mine and
mill in northern Labrador, and the smelter-refinery complex in Argentia, Nfld.
Tobin said Inco has grossly underestimated the patience of Newfoundlanders,
who have learned from past mega-projects that short-term job gains are not
worth long-term economic losses.
"We're getting on with life," said Tobin. "There are many other projects and
many other partners."
c The Canadian Press, 1998"Copied from http://www.siliconinvestor.com/
There seems to be this delusional mindset from NDP followers (and Tobin followers back in 1998) that private business in some way owes them money or some type of living increase, just for being successful. Its pure socialism Bullshit of course. The only people a private industry owes is its investors and stock holders. Beyond that its just got to operate under legal standards. And when those legal standards become to cumbersome and effect the business profit margin, they up and move to more friendly settings that will welcome them. You can see it playing out first hand in Ontario right now as the Auto sector, once a staple of the Ontario industry and overall health, closes up and moves back to USA and Mexico.
The Ontario Liberals and Unions have been hammering the auto sector for a decade + now with higher operating costs, higher taxes, forced unionization increases, and finally its hit its breaking point and Ontario auto industry is in shambles and a shell of what it once was. Alberta Oil and gas industries are now posed to follow the same direction.
Oh and I'm sure the NDP, like the Ontario Liberals, will blame everything on the federal government. And some weak minded souls will believe it probably. But for everyone else, we seen this routine before. We seen this dance before. It always plays out the same way.
To quote Albert EinsteinInsanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
At what point do people start to wake up to the economic cost of embracing far left wing socialism agenda? I mean the evidence is out there there if you just open your eyes and read it. The only partisan articles are the ones you all keep posting to defend the left wing socialists (and that's because THEY WROTE THE FREAKING ARTICLES YOU QUOTING)
A friend on Facebook recently said it best in regards to Alberta,
But personally I think it applies to politics in general
We need a socially liberal but fiscally conservative government.
And hes bang on the money (In regards to Canada in general in my opinion)
But both the socially Liberal and fiscally Conservative need to both have one foot solid in the CENTER / MODERATION.
The NDP in Alberta, the Liberals in Ontario, the Tobin Liberals in 1990s could not even begin to spell the word CENTER or MODERATE, much less govern from there socially or financially.
And that's ALWAYS when problems occur.
The next 4 years will be hard on Alberta.
I hope my friends and family do not feel the effects to harshly
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