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I got The Prentice Plan in the mail today. Talk about propaganda. If you haven't see it, it looks like this: On the inside, the talk about investing in education and healthcare. This from the party that just created a budget where they're capping and cutting in health care and education. I'm at a loss for words.

Here's just one reason the PCs are in the financial state they're in--well, no, let's be fully honest here and say that this is one reason the PCs have gotten Alberta in the financial state its in: After they had promised to freeze salaries, they went and raised salaries for senior government officials , who, let's face it, are already making more than the average Albertan. Deput minister salaries went up by about $20 000. Yes, you read that correctly. Given they already make over $200 000, maybe it doesn't seem like a big deal to them, but to the average Albertan, $20 000 is not only huge but could really change things around for people. But this pay freeze seems to have only been targeted at MLAs. Senior government managers were given a lump sum payment, followed by a 2.25% raise for 2014 and a 2.5% increase for this year. Because they're not already making enough? Gary Mar's combined salary and non-cash benefits totalled over half a million dollars....

I will be writing more over the coming weeks and regret to not have kept up with things on this blog--or even paid more attention to what was going on politically. I will say this right now: It's time for the PCs to go. If I'm going to be honest with myself, I have to admit that perhaps another party won't be able to win. Other than the PCs, we Albertans tend to be quite a mixed bag. Ironically, the party that is closest to the PCs in terms of social and economical positions is the Wildrose Party, which people seem to be very afraid to go with. They'll turn to the increasingly socialist Liberal and NDP (okay, they've always been socialist, but their socialism is getting strong hints of communism) parties who are vastly different from the PCs, so should be way out of their comfort zone, but they are names that they know, so in a way, it is their comfort zone. I firmly believe this election was called so soon so that people would have little chance of getting to...