They still want to charge ahead with spending even as the oil glut gets much worse than it was, at this point they are bold or making a really bad move. I have a feeling they are banking on a rebound in oil that may not happen.
On the other hand everyone wants jobs, the 60 000+ jobs that have been lost are probably gone for awhile and in order to get the books balanced the government would need to shave a good 10 billion out of spending, which 60-90k job cuts.
Imagine the price of real estate etc if the government laid off as many people as the oil patch has,lol
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