Does an Alberta Pension Plan make sense? If Albertans keep the NDP and Liberals out of office Provincially it will work! – November 11, 2019
Being perfectly honest, I don’t like government Pension plans, I don’t think it’s the governments’ responsibility to take care of people for life, I believe it’s the governments’ role to protect or freedoms and liberties, because s an example without the government, I’d have to personally monitor my own personal property and protect it from theft. I’m not anti-government, I’m not an anarchist, but I am a Right-winger, and I will openly say that if people want to socialize a particular industry, then the industry that is socialized should be profitable and be able to sustain itself without diluting the money supply, running deficits or indebting the unborn.
Alberta is the Texas of Canada, although I now worry for the future of Texas with all of the Californians migrating there, current Texas symbolizes what free-market economics can do. It’s not to say Texas is completely free market, but it’s capitalist enough to where the State is rich and currently knowledgable enough to know the capitalistic forces that drive fuel its prosperity. Alberta similar to Texas isn’t rich purely because of its resources, it’s rich because of what it does with those resources, any economic downturn Alberta is currently experiencing has nothing to do with laziness or free-market forces and everything to do with Federal Government interference into their Provinces economic development.
Basically, Albertans are being punished by the Federal government for being productive. The current reasoning being used to stop Alberta’s economy from being more rich and productive is climate change. Now, if you follow the money, you see who will benefit from Alberta’s economic downturn, but if you simply believe the mainstream media in Canada, you’d properly view Alberta as a province with a lot of greedy people, who put profits over people. This is of course, the narrative Trudeau’s Liberals will try to shove down people’s throats and they create an economic atmosphere reliant on Government approvals to move forward with anything.
I personally believe it’s the right of Trudeau to do what he believes is in the countries best interests, however, I also believe Alberta as a province has a right to respond and fight back. Now, in my opinion, I think a separatist movement, or an Albertan Bloc, would be the smartest move, I don’t think Jason Kenny’s idea is sound because he’s not drawing a line in the sand, he’s basically saying we will do things increments.
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By doing things in increments, this is going to cost the Albertan economy a lot of investment. If the line in the sand were drawn, it becomes a negotiation with Ottawa, in which actual concessions have to be made. Quebec already has a lot of what Alberta should have, the problem with the Quebec economy is that their public sector is bankrupt and is heavily dependent on Western Canada to sustain it, in easy to understand terms, Quebec protectionist regulations actually make it from an economic standpoint a net negative for Canada. Alberta, on the other hand, is on the opposite side of this, as nation Alberta might be likened to Switzerland in the event it was able to set its own laws. I hear a lot about people speaking about Alberta being landlocked, however, from my standpoint Texas is landlocked, Switzerland is landlocked, Luxembourg is landlocked, Austria is landlocked. Being Landlocked isn’t that big a deal if you know how to barter.
Austria is landlocked, why do you think the concept of Austrian Economics came from Austria?
California isn’t landlocked, neither is Quebec, yet both places managed to find themselves in debt positions? Why? People like me argue it’s because of bad government policies. When you’re surrounded by other nations or other States or Provinces, what it comes down to ultimately is your ability to barter with your neighbors. The great thing about being a politician is that you’re allowed to lie to people to get votes, you can even make up stuff like a climate emergency to not only get votes but to raise taxes, however what can’t be denied are the end results of a politicians policies.
If Alberta created their own Albertan pension plan, that sounds like a pretty good plan, however, what I think Jason Kenny is missing is Ottawas ability to starve Alberta in other ways, Equalization payments are one way to starve Alberta, however other policies that hinder Alberta’s growth are others. In Canada, unlike Switzerland, the Federal Government has a lot of power, in Switzerland, the most power is in their equivalent to Provinces and Municipalities, this is why in Switzerland Politicians can go to jail for running deficits, you see when your political representative lives nearby, it’s a lot harder for her/him to lie to you.
In Canada, if you live in Alberta and Justin Trudeau lives about 3500KM away from you, he doesn’t even have to acknowledge your existence. Basically only his political opposition will be in his face, in Switzerland, no, the Politician might live a few blocks away from you. In Kentucky as an example, Senator Rand Paul was tackled from behind from a neighbor who didn’t agree with his politics. This obviously didn’t lead to Rand Paul changing his politics, but you get the idea, when real people are in your face and can get in your face, you’ll be slow as a politician to jump on board with a globalist objective that will harm people’s lives.
I have my views, but my personal views aren’t reflective on the masses, therefore if I were to get into politics with differing views from my fellow countrymen I better have my facts straight and I better make sure my view are reflective of what the people I’m representing want. If like Libertarian Tim Moen, my views seem far fetched, it’s best that I simply throw my concepts out there and let people judge for themselves if I’m the type of leader they want to get behind. If not, well, then the Jason Kenny types have to pray and hope that Justin Trudeau doesn’t take a longterm outlook on my Pension plan idea.
Because Pension plans at the end of the day revolve around profitability, and if Alberta continues to get poorer and poorer every year, this puts their pension plan at risk. Even as a service sector economy, Alberta still fairs better than the rest of Canada, but not that much better. Service sector jobs don’t pay as much and create an entirely different demographic workforce. What I’m getting at is the possibility of a brain drain in Alberta if their long-term vision is service sector economy. Because if a place has a service sector economy, then people start to pay closer attention to things like climate, quality of life, the opportunity for advancement, etc.
If Jason Kenny’s strategy is a long-term strategy, I’m not so sure if it will work, it then starts to remind me of the Reform Party and Brian Mulroney, etc. When you’re paying the bills, it’s best to make your move while you’re able to pay the bills, because the longer you wait, the more likely it is that your advocates will jump ship or become complacent. Furthermore, the NDP did win Alberta once before, being that Alberta has the youngest demographic? which people are the most susceptible to Leftist ideas? Young people! If young people in Alberta have fewer economic opportunities via Trudeau’s Liberals, and these young people one day grew up with the assumption that Leftism does work, that could easily equate to 10 years of economic devastation.
In Ontario, all it took was for public education to indoctrinate students for a decade and now, Ontario has a huge problem, a large portion of children in Ontario know nothing about Conservativism, I hear Albertans all the time talking about Ontario not supporting them or being against them in some way, well, there’s a reason why my kids don’t go to public schools in Ontario.
I think Alberta would be wise to get its own pension plan, but I hope that’s not all Jason Kenny has planned, because if I were him, I’d take a serious look at the Quebec playbook. I always give credit where it’s due, I’ve given credit to the Green Party, as a minority Party look what they’ve done to the Alberta economy, I give credit to the Bloc, the Quebec public sector has been bankrupt for decades, you barely hear a peep out of anyone, give the Bloc some credit, I give credit to Justin Trudeau, even though he’s an embarrassment to this country, he certainly doesn’t behave like it.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease
Quebecers on the political stage don’t behave like their public sector is broke, they speak up, and use their threat of separation as their negotiation tool to get what they want from Ottawa. When I listen to most Albertan Conservative politicians, this is what I hear Please oh please Mr. Trudeau let us work, we won’t make a fuss, we’ll behave and bring you the wealth you demand, just throw us a bone or two, makes us feel part of your grand scheme. Being honest I don’t get it, my thing as an Ontarian is I want Canada to lead, we should be leading not following, Canada is fully capable of being innovative leaders in fossil fuels and green energies, but as it stands now, my fellow countrymen like big government, Government knows best apparently, so I’ll sit back and observe the end results of this Jason Kenny experiment, and focus more on what I need to do for my family.
Conservatives to try to force Trudeau’s hand on western alienation | CBC
Interesting times ahead!