What’s being done to help seniors in Alberta?
By Lethbridge Herald on June 11, 2022.
Editor:
Is anything being done for the seniors? No! No celebrations, no help, same old same old talk talk talk. Oh we will help you find a food bank help you find rent to income homes or care units. Anything to make us feel more down trodden. Nothing in the form of celebrations nothing in the increase to pensions to make it livable. Another yawn. You are lucky if you have employment ageism is still a big thing.
Janet Iseke
Fort Macleod
5-4
Those of us from the world of finance know why? These phony conservatives, Reformer, are so busy helping their rich friends screw Albertans out of all their oil and tax wealth they have no money to help anyone properly.
“UCP to cut seniors services by $50 million if reelected”
http://www.albertaworker.ca/2022/05/03/ucp-to-cut-seniors-services-by-50m-if-reelected/
This senior won’t vote for them. I’ll vote instead for the AB NDP.
There will much to ‘fix’ when the UCP are voted out.
But we still have idiots like buckwheat and johnny 57 kissing their asses and thinking they are our heroes. The seniors in my world aren’t this stupid.
S. A. – Reminded me of “there was so much to “fix” when the AB, NDP were voted out”. Seems you may have forgotten about the huge debt Notley’s group left UCP to fix.
Not to forget, global oil prices had crashed in 2014, before the NDP were elected, and, they also had to deal with the many years of financial mismanagement by the AB Conservatives including the $20-30 billion infrastructure debt left from the Klein era, and, the many years of not following the Lougheed ‘Six Principles’ for resource development: “Behave like an owner, Collect your fair share, Save for a rainy day, Add value, Go slow, and Practice statecraft.” There was also, the mitigation for, particularly, the drastic health care cuts that were done by the Conservatives. Now, the Kenney UCP has left us with a possible, even worse mess yet, and with peanuts left in our Heritage Trust Fund.
So why is it that when my circle of friends ask guys like you to provide us with a list of the horrible things Notley did to us you can’t provide one ? Instead you believed the lies Jason Kenney fed you? Did you honestly think Notley could save jobs and fix the horrific mess she inherited without spending any money? How would you build the 55 schools we were short of without spending any money? Why are you ignoring the fact that she inherited a massive deficit and under Kenney the debt has increased by a huge amount because he has slashed corporate taxes to benefit his rich friends? Maybe you had better wake up and learn the facts. It’s the very reason why Albertans want Kenney gone and Notley back she was on the right track. While saving jobs and not cutting them like Klein did and Kenney is doing she was going to gradually increase corporate taxes and royalties back up to the Lougheed levels which was the right thing to do. Don’t forget who created this mess in the first place it was Ralph Klein. If he had continued to collect royalties and taxes at the Lougheed levels we would be very rich like Alaska and Norway are.
In all “Fairness” Fedup – I am not a GUY – I looked.
Hey Fed Up you’re being offered a job.
Hey Janet maybe seniors should start their own “Tent Cities” you know the kind we see everywhere including here in Lethbridge. The powers that B would be racing to help them! The media could not cover their plight enough and in the meantime they would be getting free meals delivered right to their tents and all their Medicare would be covered including free booze! That’s a gig I think even FC could board and ride! He would’t have time to complain about past PC governments as he would be to busy standing in line for his next meal or injection lol.
this is truly an ages old issue.