Comments on: Danielle Smith and “the hungry.”

By: Rural gal

Rural gal — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:12:38 +0000

Truly a waste of beef. It was tested and found to be safe. Cook it and send to charity soup kitchens, make into frozen pies, whatever. But it was politically incorrect and as such, the hungry are still hungry.
Smith was correct, but in the “scary world ” it was probably the wrong thing to put forth. She realized that and explained that. At least she indicated she made a mistake.
Today our Premier cannot admit that $430000 and the way it was contributed was not a mistake, nor can the executive director of the Party.

Refreshing to see someone walk back a statement and an event.

Maybe the party could use the $430000 to feed the hungry.

By: columberta.blogspot.com

columberta.blogspot.com — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 06:22:59 +0000

Meh, humans are fallible. She didn’t mean to be malicious as aforementioned.

By: Aden

Aden — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 04:12:06 +0000

I’m curious, Joe Albertan, which part shows that she is unfit for office, the ‘awkward and misinformed’ or the ‘genuinely apologetic’? Unless you were being sarcastic (and my apologies if you were), your bluster doesn’t seem to fit occasion.

By: Seriously?

Seriously? — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:01:12 +0000

Redford and her PC crew have scandal after scandal and it gets nary a mention on this blog.

Danielle Smith tweets one stupid thing and OMGZORS FROTHY TIME!

By: Sam Gunsch

Sam Gunsch — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:28:48 +0000

Alberta is Energy and “the number of children living in poverty in Alberta grew dramatically from 53,000 to 73,000 between 2008 to 2009.”

Alberta is Energy and “On the last week of February, and five months into the Calgary Food Bank’s (CFB) budget year, there were only 2,500 jars of peanut butter left in the warehouse–enough for just one more week. For CFB’s 147,000 regular clients, that may mean having to switch to a very different diet very soon.”

http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/03/02/ever-pricier-peanut-butter-is-forcing-food-banks-to-get-creative/”

excerpt: “Warrack, one of the architects of the iconic Alberta Heritage Fund, told the Tyee earlier this year that the province is being run like a “banana republic” for failing to collect fair rents for non-renewable resources like the oil sands.”http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2011/04/13/HarpersBigQuestion/print.html

Alberta is Energy and “In Alberta, corporate profits more than doubled their share of the GDP from 1989 to 2008 from 9.6 per cent to 22.8 per cent.”
http://pialberta.org/content/alberta-%E2%80%98leaving-too-much-table%E2%80%99-ex-liberal-leader-says

See also Stelmach’s royalty review, Stelmach’s cement/oil shoes, petro-donations to political parties leverage in wildrose country, democracy in corporate storage
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“All charity is humiliating.” August Strindberg
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“Today we see charity as noble means to fill in the gaps of poverty that isn’t taken care of by the state. But the state barely combats poverty as it is, so the gaps are far too deep for charity to possibly fill. Public funding and taxing the private sector is the only truly effective way to do it. With our over-capitalist ideology, however, we continue to demean the poor by reserving for ourselves the power over them to dole out what we deem them worthy of, and leave the business sector under-taxed to the point where giant piles of wealth are amassed and then squandered. This is what corporate bonuses, rather than corporate taxes, amount to.
http://www.wordarc.com/Hogan/2009/01/06/Charity%3A_A_Solution_to%2C_or_Symptom_of%2C_Poverty%3F

or here:
https://www.google.ca/search?q=all%20charity%20is%20humiliating%20strindberg&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&source=hp&channel=np

By: Joe Albertan

Joe Albertan — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:39:53 +0000

Shows you how out of touch, ideological, and extreme Danielle Smith is. She is unfit for office.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:27:48 +0000

This story has been fabricated by WRP opponents and absolutely lapped up by the media. There are people going hungry in Alberta, we are disposing of piles of good, healthy food, and we can’t even have a discussion of how that food might be used? The Tories should be ashamed that they put partisan gain ahead of helping the needy, and the media should be embarrassed that they unthinkingly ate it up.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:32:14 +0000

I agree with you Dave. I heard her on the Rutherford show and she said that the meat had tested negative for E. coli by the CFIA, only it hadn’t been cleared for sale. If the meat was cooked then sold/given away at a charity event by organizers making sure it was properly prepared then it could have been a great thing instead of a great waste.

By: William Munsey

William Munsey — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 05:36:28 +0000

I also think too much was made of Ms Smith’s retweet and I have to say, listening to her today, she sounded genuinely apologetic for the miscommunication. She was, after all, expressing the disappointment so many of us feel at the terrible waste of food we’ve seen this month.