Carole James and the Dreamers Versus Reality

Why is it that even reasonable minds allow partisan politics to fog their thoughts and throw logic out the window.

David Shreck and Ian Reid have spoken and are clearly on Carole James side on the NDP leadership challenge, now that`s fine and I respect their opinion, but.....

What was their reasoning for defending Carole James besides a personal allegiance, David Shrek talks about the all time highs Carole James has brought to the NDP party, according to Mustel and Angus Reid the BC NDP are polling between (Currently42% and 48%)...What historic highs, the NDP garnered in the last election 42.7% of the voters, the BC Liberals got 47%....and a mere 54% of eligible voters actually cast a ballot, the most hated premier in Canada and Carole got 42% of the vote and lost, again.....

Shreck goes on to talk about the BC Liberals tearing up the HEU contract, the selling of BC Rail, the HST and the deficit lie, Shreck talks about the BC Liberal brand being tainted and that Carole is a shoe in to win, and she will be the first female elected to premier........

And Ian Reid talks about how politics have changed, Reid talks about how the ideas and the platform of the NDP from 20 years ago are not relevant today, Ian talks about the right direction to go politically.....

I respect both men so I will go easy on them.......

Mr. Shreck......The thing you talk about, the tarnished BC Liberal brand, tearing up of the HEU contract, selling BC Rail, not raising minimum wages, B.C. leading Canada in child poverty since Campbell took power.....And David, Campbell is a drunk driver, doesn`t live with his wife, adulterer, ...Gag laws, closed schools, gutted the environmental reviews, gutted freedom of information.....Campbell has had half his team under investigation for one thing or another, we have a "Mock BC Rail trial" that has cost 10s of $millions...

We have a $900 million dollar tax hit we are on the hook for and that money will be going to CN rail, forestry is on the ropes, wild salmon are in big trouble, the debt has ballooned under Campbell, ridiculous power purchase agreements that will bankrupt BC Hydro and have already cranked up rate payers bills, Ken Dobell/Patrick Kinsella along with lie after lie after lie from Gordon Campbell, Campbell has attacked the old, the disabled, the autistic, arts and culture, and on top of all this.....

The NDP record from the 90s is statistically better by far than the economic numbers under a decade of Campbell.....

More net jobs were created in the 90s, more net migration to BC in the 90s...More housing was built in the 90s...GDP was higher in the 90s...Even big business made more money in the 90s under the NDP....Just ask Will McMartin........

So Mr. Shreck, your theory, the tainted BC Liberals, all of those things were present well before the last election, Carole didn`t capitalize on it did she Mr. Shreck, ....Campbell is tainted, he stinks, a waft of corruption follows Gordon Campbell around like a shadow, your theory is flawed Mr. Shreck, Carole James had enough ammo to beat Campbell three times over but she failed, she failed to expose any scandals, she allowed propaganda about the NDPs fiscal record to linger unchallenged...
Every BC Liberal MLA spewed lies about the NDP record unchallenged, Carole allowed Gordon Campbell and public affairs bureau to define the NDP with lies, why wasn`t every ndp MLA ordered to carry around Will McMartin articles laying out the true economic record of the NDP compared to the Liberals...

Carole James has allowed the Campbell owned media to define the NDP with spin, lies and distortion, now the NDP are stuck in a time warp of false urban legend....The doom and gloom of the 90s, people leaving the province, tax and spend NDPers...When the facts don`t bear that out, the Feds cut transfer payments, interest rates were high, the NDP did a good job navigating the Asian flu......
Carole James failed to set the record straight, business will never accept the NDP, whatever the NDP would offer big business the Liberals will give more, sorry Shreck, Carole hasn`t brought anyone to the party......

And as for you Ian Reid....You make one statement in your latest article.....You talk about how politics and party platforms have changed over the last 20 years and time to move on has come, the old NDP ideaoligies aren`t relevant to today......

I respectfully disagree, in fact the needs are greater today than anytime over the last 40 years, corporations have become greedy monsters, they set up shop in slave labour countries, private pensions are now almost a thing of the past, job security and community based good corporate citizen no longer exists, the S&P companies are sitting on $2 trillion in cash, the corporate world is flush with cash, in fact Wall street among the top 13 firms are setting a new pay record, renumeration and bonuses are expected to exceed $144 billion dollars, yet trade volume is way down, banking deals are down but the corporate elite are taking more, paying less and continually outsourcing to the cheapest slave land they can find, minimum wage hasn`t been raised in 10 years in BC, .......

There has never ever been a time where a party of the people, for the people, for workers, for kids, for education, for social programs, was ever needed more than now......Corporations have become greedy pigs, the HST isn`t enough, they want municipal taxes cut or reduced, raw logs and resources leaving the Province by the boatload, 20 years of trickle down economics and look where we are, corporations flush with cash, outsourcing gone wild, Government and personal debt levels have never been higher, meanwhile corporations have trillions of dollars, even the last(still) reccession, who caused it, greedy bankers, corrupt corporations, derivatives, credit default swaps, imaginary securities and who pays the price for the scam, the big boys get bailed out on the backs of taxpayers, corporations who failed to fund promised pensions, bit by bit, dollar by dollar the quality of life is being taken by the corporate elite...

The Fraser institute, C D Howe, you hear the drum beating Shreck and Reid.... Health care is unsustainable, CPP is unsustainable, government services must be cut cut cut and cut some more, wages must be lowered, we must be more productive(Code for no benifits), more efficient, lower corporate taxes even more....

I could go on and on folks, Sorry David Shreck, Carole James has failed to communicate anything, she has had more than enough ammo, she allowed the NDP record to be turned into an urban legend lie, one that will be very difficult to undo, we will need a better more personable leader to get the truth out there and into people`s head!...

Mr. Reid...Your wrong, the old NDP policies are needed more today then ever before, just like the tea baggers down south, no more pandering to elites, to bankers, to corporate greed, we are on the cusp of North America turning into a banana republic, we have land, resources, clean air and water, we have beautiful spirited life forces in this Province, we are unique, we hold the keys....
There already is a BC Conservative party, there is already a BC Liberal party, there is a Green party, there already is a Corporation party, it`s called the present Government...

What we need is an NDP party with the values of 20 years ago where people and the long term environment come first.

Look folks, I like Carole James but in the big picture, the election of the NDP is more important than one person`s ego.

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