Gordon Campbell`s Recipe Book, How to Destroy Our B.C. Economy!

You know folks, I really enjoy a good debate, this HST scam is a prime example, but debate is not what we`re getting, we are getting opinion and omission, far too many omissions.........

The first omission is the argument from Campbell, an argument that all the media fails to engage, Bill Good and Gordon Campbell state.....

"Where is the Province going to get revenue for services"snip

And after that statement from Government and its political hacks the argument goes sideways.

Because who is bringing up the fiscal incompetance, who is driving the B.C. Liberal managerial record, the Bill Good`s and Michael Levy`s of the world always ask/say....."What would the NDP do....What would another Government do.....Where would the NDP find money...."

You get the gist, it`s so easy to ask the new boss, new Government, or the new bill payer to provide an answer, let me put it another way, you move into a new house, the mortgage is XX........The bills are X.....the up keep is X....your life style is X......So to afford that house you need to make XXXXX$...... but if your only making XXX$.....You have but 2 choices, sell the house or make more X......

I put this question forward to you......."How did we get here?"

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Here are a couple of reasons B.C. is broke....Forestry...

The forestry industry in B.C. has always had ups and down, but under Gordon Campbell 70 mills have closed and 35,000 thousand jobs gone, mortgage paying community building jobs gone, yet at the same time raw log exports have risen by 3000% under these Liberals...3000%...There was a big rally in Nanaimo today, hundreds turned out to protest the escalating raw log exports, years back ships filled with milled lumber would be leaving our ports, now it`s ship after ship filled with raw logs leaving our ports, high value soft woods, old growth, big fir.....And because of no ability to regulate or stop raw logs from being shipped out from the illegal lands, the TFLs that were given to Campbell`s corporate friends, to Rich Coleman`s brother....Even our auditor General ruled that the forest giveaways were "Not in the public interest"....Public forests turned into private hidden money, the Province has zero say on raw log exports from our previous public forests, rape the land and sell the property and open up another Asian mill!

But let`s be clear, Gordon Campbell has turned his back on forestry and small town B.C....He has never ever said a peep about raw log exports, and wasn`t the justification of the illegal forest giveaways a promise of more forestry jobs?...Read about the big raw log rally in Nanaimo here...You won`t find or hear the story on Gordo propaganda media.

How many billions would be in the B.C. treasury if just half the mills closed?

I read another interesting story, Denmark, the windmill capital of the world, well blow my shorts off, the people of Denmark are revolting, they now have the most expensive Electric/hydro rates in the world, they are slashing windmill subsidies, after 40 years of windmill expansion the numbers are in, the power is useless, of the the rated power generation of the windmills, a mere 7% of the rated power is delivered, and it usually produces power when the people don`t need it....And that other little problem, for every windmill Denmark built, an equal amount of coal fired, nuclear or water power generation was built....The prices of windmills are plummetting in Denmark, they can`t give them away, yet when Denmark and other countries are fleeing from tax-payer subsidized windmill power Gordon Campbell has signed away hundreds of millions to Finerva and other wind mill power producers, untendered, largesse guaranteed for 2 generations, largesse from the taxpayer, nothing but a wealth transfer to a corporate entity, .....

This folly with destructive land based wind mills will cost BCers and the treasury billions of dollars, also Campbell and co gave nearly a billion dollars to Teck comenco for Waneta dam power, power we could get at the spot market price, the guaranteed subsidies to run of river, to Plutonic power, we are talking about literally billions of dollars being sucked out of the B.C. tax payers pocket and ultimately the B.C. Government`s pocket......Read about Denmark turning against wind power here

Trade and convention center that was $450 million over budget, the Canada line $1billion over budget, the Golden ears bridge was $400 million over budget, not to mention law suits, BC Rail giveaway, BC Ferries drowning in debt yet........Yet these clowns like David Hahn and BC Rail executives,Patrick Kinsella, Lawyers, an inner group of B.C. Liberal insiders that have sponged hundreds of millions from the B.C. taxpayer....

And there was that tax change in 2001/ all industrial equipment was tax free and could be written off, a promise of jobs, yet it bore no fruit, no extra jobs, just another hit to the treasury...We can disagree about tax policy pro and con.....But I see a complete failure on the forestry file, our hydro revenues will be a thing of the past, our roads are beat up from trucks, trucks that could have been carried by a BC owned BC Rail, a rail line that could have served the Olympics and saved us $3 billion dollars on the sea to sky highway upgrade, not to mention the extra few $billion dollars on P3s against pay as we go....Our B.C. debt has rocketed upwards under Gordon Campbell, but worse than that, we are no longer making XXXXXXXXXXX $ as a Province.....We are making XXXXXXXX and that is a problem, a problem the HST won`t solve but hinder.

And as for that stale argument being used both south of the border and here in B.C....."How do we create more revenue?".....

We can`t answer that question until we ask and answer the first one.....

"How did we get here?"

And the only way back is....

Baby steps friends, baby steps.

The Straight Goods

Cheers-Eyes Wide Open