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This woman is a traitor to Canada
Ah yes, any friends of her enemy (the Alberta public) is her enemy too.
Got your own little trump, eh. Sucks. They love tearing down stuff.
They love tearing down stuff.
Those who can't build, break.
Feels like this province is broken and we won't be able to fix it.
Every day it's just doom and gloom. It's pretty hard to take after awhile.
I hope she gets voted out but I don't know if we can even fix the damage Danielle Smith and the UCP have done.
If it helps, there are Conservatives that are getting sick of the shit the UCP has been pulling.
My grandmother has been a longtime Conservative since she has family that works in the oil sands, and she was telling me when I visited her last that "they need to get rid of Danielle Smith".
If she votes NDP I'd be coloured shocked. She's not the most political person, but she's very much not the "culture war" type of person as much as she is pro-oil.
What is the problem with conservatives and healthcare?!
They need to destroy it so they can make a case for privatizing it.
They think by cutting services, their taxes will go down. LOL
They want the money that was to be spent on healthcare siphoned off to billionaires.
The part of all this that puzzles me most is that ordinary citizens who support these parties seem to think they'll benefit from the Conservatives' cuts to public services.
Ultimately, these people, through their support, are causing people to lose services to the benefit of billionaires...for nothing?
I think it resembles the mindset of cultists, where they will do and accept whatever their cult leaders demand of them. Even though the lie sits there spread-eagle for all to see, they turn their eyes to it. It's bizarre.
I remember reading (relatively recently) research showing conservatives literally believe badvthingscdo not happen to good people. If they know someone personally who they know is good, and something bad happens to them, they either think it is a rare example of bad luck and they will help out, or they will decide that person must not have been a good person.
It allows them to justify the mental gymnastics of being anti-abortion but paying for their daughter's "procedure" at the same time. A "good" family member who gets cancer deserves help, but why should they fund cancer care for those morally bankrupt <fill in the "other"> people?
Apparently they have overactive amygdalas, among other issues, and a reduced ability to engage critical thinking towards their own beliefs.
So, yes, they kind of are cult members. But they can't be easily deprogrammed, and even if we purged this lot, we would still end up with some cropping up again.
Rampant, unfettered capitalism above all.
They have no understanding of how the world works and they’re very selfish so they’re easy to manipulate.
2019 - 2025 is 7 years
150 people
30m/7/150=$28,000 each
Literal nothing burger if you can MATH.
Even 200k is in the corporate space fairly beign.
One company I worked was paying out that sort of money for basic worker bees who had hit the 80 week max redundancy pay out point (20 years tenure).
Every restructure meeting was the strangest thing I've ever been to where people were just so depressed and upset at not being made redundant.
So yeah $200k wasn't unusual (when all your other benefits were paid out, including sick leave that fricken accrued in perpetuity)
I imagine these health care workers and managers had a good union.
Word problems can be tricky, but that reads as 150 people who were terminated over the span of 7 years. So that's $200k per person.
Remember, word problems involve comprehension and math.
If you work a minumum wage ($15/hr) job for 7 years and put in 40/hrs/week, you'd make $210,000.
Time scales make numbers seem bigger than they are. Go after Danielle Smith for something realstic. This is just shitty outrage journalism.
That only works if it was 150 people per year for each of those 7 years. I read it as 150 people total, making the time irrelevant. Unless you are talking about how much was paid out of a budget each year. Was your "each" per person or per year?