Thread by @TheBreakdownAB

Here’s another way to look at @jkenney’s pipeline debacle...

Given a minimum income of $2000 a month.

That’s $24,000 a year.

There are about 6,000 homeless in Alberta.

That ends homelessness in Alberta.

With $1.356 billion left over

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So let’s carry some of that over to #AISH.

There are about 70,000 Albertans reliant on AISH.

To top them up to the same level?

That’s just over $264 million a year.

We still have over a billion dollars left.

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Let’s see, what else does our province need?

How about training a bunch of electricians to install solar panels?

The course is $1000

Let’s put 10,000 electricians to work upgrading our electrical system.

That costs us $10 million in training.

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BTW at this point we still have $990 million to play with.

Let’s put $400 million of that to front load subsidies to pay for solar panels for those electricians to install.

We still have $500 million left.

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The average teachers aid makes about 28,000 a year.

Let’s hire almost 9,000 across the province, and we still have about $250 million left.

Let’s just put that into hiring another 9,000 employees across the province to work in seniors homes.

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So using our fancy back of a napkin math...

@jkenney could have...

-ended homelessness in Alberta
-supported the most vulnerable,
-put 10,000 tradespeople to work future proofing our electrical grid
-improved education & supported seniors

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But instead, he flushed all of that down the drain.

Quite the legacy when you compare the two...

What would you have rather seen that money spent on?

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