Other Albertans could use the monthly support more
By Lethbridge Herald on February 3, 2023.
Editor:
This is a copy of an email I sent to our premier:
Dear Premier Danielle:
Here are three situations where people are receiving the $100/month gift:
A. A couple of seniors with no mortgage or car payments making $120,000 per year from pensions.
B. A family of four that includes two children earning $175,000 per year with the usual mortgage payments and probably a car payment.
C. A young person earning minimum wage of $15/hr (works out to around $30,000 per year). Possibly going to school on student loans.
Now the pensioners could be blowing it all at the casino, a condo in Arizona, too much wine or other necessities. The family of four many be stretched to the limit trying to keep up with the Jones’s – need to have a BMW in the driveway and the kids need iPhones, etc.
There are many others out there. It could be a single mom with no kids at home trying to live on $40,000 per year paying rent, car expenses, etc. Now who do you think needs the $100 per month?
Reed Spencer
Lethbridge
12-11
Wow. Someone who really hates seniors! Where do you think that money comes from, anyway? Many of those hated seniors struggled for years, had families, had mortgages, paid into those pension funds, and PAID TAXES. In addition to that, many are financially helping out their kids and grandkids during these hard times.
Really or is Reed pointing out the facts. While many Alberta seniors allow themselves to be treated like morons the people in Alaska and Norway are living like Kings. Pull up the Alaska Permanent Fund if you don’t believe me. Smith buys your vote for a pathetic $600., yet every man, woman and child in Alaska got $4,200. over the last three years, and $46,000. in total annual oil dividend cheques since 1982.I am a well enough off senior who didn’t need it, but will give it to our food bank, or add it to Notley’s campaign like many senior friends are suggesting we do. Apparently these seniors supporting these UCP haven’t been cheated out of an enough money and can’t wait to start paying huge Private for Profit healthcare fees. They have cost you a lot more than the $600. they are giving back to you and they know it. Why is lining up at the food bank you goal.
We could’ve had all those things but governments during the last 50 years have taken most of the resource revenue to subsidize the day to day operations of government. We claim to be one of the lowest taxed provinces in Canada but are we when you put resource revenue into the mix? One of the things I respected about the late Jim Prentice is his willingness to bring that up. Since then silence on the issue as we go from boom to bust to boom again.
I don’t think example C would get the $100.
When the goal is to buy a election you need to pay as many people as possible. Simple. What does $100/mo do for anyone? It doesn’t fill my tank. It doesn’t cover a trip to the grocery store. It doesn’t cover the mortgage, car payment, a pair of Levis jeans, sneakers for the kid. What? I seriously hope it doesn’t buy a election either.
Great comments, you have nailed it. I can remember ignorant seniors practically wetting their pants over the $400. Klein gave them, they were so excited but were too dumb to understand what the oil wealth was doing for Alaska and Norway, refused to believe anything I said they didn;t want to know the truth, and these fools are no different. By taking Notley’s caps off their power and gas bills, along with auto insurance and vehicle registration they have likely paid a lot more than the $600. they are being given, my friends say they certainly have. I have never bothered to add mine up. Some have seen a 38% increase in their vehicle insurance rates since Kenney let their rich Insurance Companies fleece them. .
excellent point presented. not sure why citi chooses a leap without basis so as to suggest the writer hates seniors. the point made seems clear cut: share the wealth where it is needed most. those living in the upper 10% should hardly need subsidy. meanwhile, shark’s comment is, sadly, maybe more real than not. and nary a peep from the citi-types in this province, and nation, when govt routinely and consistently slides over piles of public wealth to the wealthiest corps and individuals, via the likes of cooked/crooked tax laws, “incentives”, “greening”, “subsidies”, “grants”, “loans” that come with ridiculously favourable interest rates that often may be forgiven….
here is a great lowdown on how corporate welfare benefits the wealthiest corps sucking money out of the american public purse – take a peek, it is astonishing and very, very easy to read https://www.mic.com/articles/85101/10-corporations-receiving-massive-public-subsidies-from-taxpayers
and here is how looks in canada … ok, this first link leaves us guessing as to where $2 bil to corps went back in 2020 – and that was just the very start of the covid “crisis” https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/covid-spending-government-transparency-1.5826917
here we have $14 bil sent to chrysler, plus 2.6 bil dollars that was further “forgiven” them
https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/canadian-taxpayers-secretive-2-6-billion-gift-to-chrysler/
here is another “covid” related basis for handouts to the oligopoly that is cdn telecom https://www.thestar.com/business/2021/02/08/top-telecoms-took-in-almost-a-quarter-billion-dollars-from-canadas-wage-subsidy-program-and-kept-paying-dividends.html
here is a nice one of 420 million dollars for algoma steel…or is that STEAL? https://pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2021/07/05/new-investment-canadas-steel-industry-create-jobs-and-build-cleaner
how about the 4.5 billion dollars given away for a decrepit and useless pipeline to the good boys of kinder-morgan
and, just a teeny tiny speck of the sleaze – but, hey, let us all get our backs up when some of the purse is used to help those servicing our needs at the bottom-most of the earnings scale.