Hey Jimmy Boy, you certainly have shown where you priorities are and what you think of Albertans.
I don’t blame you though; we let you take power basically through acclimation – no fucks were given, as long as got rid of that WOMAN who was single-handedly ruining the province. The flyby-night parachute (Hi Steven Mandel and other assorted Tory hacks! Your exercise in nepotism and narcissistic self-aggrandizement is noted) elections that merely waved at the trappings of democracy, that shit was cool here in Alberta where the electorate gave an enthusiastic “hell ya“. It’s all okay thought because the electorate would enthusiastically vote in a bag of empty shirts as long as was the right shade of Tory blue.
Not that any of this fucking matters here in Blue Zombie Tory PC land. The latest example of the Alberta Tories pouring shit on the people of Alberta came from the priemier himself. Corporate shill-master Jimmy Prentice was dropping truth left and right on CBC radio.
‘Speaking on CBC’s Alberta@Noon Wednesday, Premier Jim Prentice told host Donna McElligott that “in terms of who is responsible, we need only look in the mirror. Basically, all of us have had the best of everything and have not had to pay for what it costs.”
Damn son, you just said a mouthful. I mean your predecessors have all at least tried to cover their contempt for the public and the public good. You may as well just get a T-Shirt that says “privatize the profit and publicize the risk” it would simplify your PR and keep the rest of your team on message. You could do it here in Blue-Zombie Alberta, they’d still vote you in, I guarantee it.
“I’ve never said Albertans are the problem,” Prentice told the Calgary Herald Thursday. “I’ve never, ever said that or anything like that. What I’ve said is that Albertans have to be part of the solution.
Prentice admits he “touched a nerve,” but is not backing away from his tough line.”
Oh, I get it now. We all have to buckle down and tighten our belts!
“Premier Jim Prentice says Alberta has no plans of raising corporate taxes to deal with the current economic woes in the province.”
Well, that was completely obvious wasn’t it? We certainly can’t raise the lowest corporate tax rates in the country that, fellow peons, would be virtual seppuku for EVERYBODY. Instead, lets gut the public service, education and healthcare – the real culprits. Let’s watch Jimmy helpfully explain why we must not tax the rich:
“[…] if we increase our corporate taxes, we will simply make ourselves uncompetitive and it will result in losing jobs,”
Oh, right. Because of all the other competing Tar Sands projects located in politically safe areas will completely take all the business… I’m not sure how much more clarity is required for Blue-Zombie Voters to see fealty expected of our elected public officials toward their oil-overlords.
Oh hey, it’s also spring election time in Alberta. And I bet that we’re going to vote these craven corporate sycophants in *again* because penury is awesome!
I was looking for an image to describe the Alberta electorate and their behaviour. I think I’m getting closer with this one. The last person in the human centipede is the typical ‘Alberta Voter’ getting all the shit, and just loving it (and clamouring for more!).
The Blue Zombie PC Vote Train! – Maybe it’s time to stop the madness and not vote Alberta PC?
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March 9, 2015 at 10:16 am
robert browning
Persistent corporate control over voters is truly amazing. Historical evidence should demand people would want to change the power structure. Is the capitalists’ power maintained w the old Nazi tactic of appealing to fear and or selfishness?
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March 9, 2015 at 12:37 pm
bleatmop
Jim is clearly correct. Raising corporate taxes would force the corporations to lay off all those employees they didn’t lay off when the price of oil dropped. They didn’t panic and lay off thousands upon thousands of people. They didn’t use the price of oil to lay of thousands of people so that they could hire them back a few months later at highly reduced salaries. They didn’t give highly reduced salaries all around. Low corporate taxes have prevented us those ills.
If only that was true.
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March 9, 2015 at 2:38 pm
VR Kaine
All “fiscally-responsible” but still running a(n unjustified) deficit? That’s why I stopped voting Tory here in Zombie-Blue Alberta, as you say it.
Tories say the line about not increasing corporate taxes because they know the Alberta electorate will let them get away with it again and again, because en masse the people are that stupid. We’ll watch that same stupidity of this same Alberta electorate lead the province into another Tory win yet again next election, too, thanks to voter ignorance/apathy.
Corporations only have control over people who let themselves be controlled, and the bulk of the middle class want things like our health, our jobs, and the environment to be someone else’s problem. Once again I think we’ll get the government we’ve asked for and deserve.
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March 9, 2015 at 2:46 pm
VR Kaine
“Basically, all of us have had the best of everything and have not had to pay for what it costs.”
“All of us” – that’s funny. If he’s talking about health care then I’d agree that it was stupid that we got rid of premiums for those who could pay it, but as for the rest he can go f*#k himself. We’ve paid plenty for the corporate joy-ride the industry has been on for oil and gas execs.
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March 13, 2015 at 8:48 am
The Arbourist
@Vern
Sad but true. Although to be honest, I’m getting tired of yelling “told you so” into the wind. It is getting old. :)
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March 13, 2015 at 8:52 am
The Arbourist
@Vern
I’d be half okay with a corporate joy ride for the industry if more of Albertans could benefit from the natural resources of Alberta. We disagree to the extent of what should happen, but my goto example is the nordic model of resource royalty rates and benefits for society.
Our resource is located in a geopolitically safe zone – that feature alone should be justification for royalty rates that would benefit all Albertans.
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March 14, 2015 at 5:51 pm
VR Kaine
Hi Arb,
We’d prob disagree on how apples-to-apples the nordic model vs Alberta model is but regardless I think we’re about as equal on this as we could be. Status quo has to change in the province and not in favor of more going to the top. With you on this one.
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