tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post8611342463097620923..comments2024-01-08T21:00:24.932-08:00Comments on The Straight Goods: Sign Sign, Everywhere a SignGrant Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11944976348166120530noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-27703692377713716612011-07-27T03:25:21.624-07:002011-07-27T03:25:21.624-07:00I hated the GST when Brian brought it in. I hate i...I hated the GST when Brian brought it in. I hate it more now. Those who support the GST and pst must be some sort of neo bc conservatives. Vanderzame is all we need to know. Stay clear off this creep!<br />Vote no to GST +hst.! We will win despite the corporate agenda to continue taxing us at 12%. We need the HST fudge the GST for ever!!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-76230748969395070602011-06-13T22:42:08.210-07:002011-06-13T22:42:08.210-07:00Very appropriate title. Signs was a protest song ...Very appropriate title. Signs was a protest song of the establishment put out by the Five Man Electrical Band in 1971 which made it to #3 on Billboards Charts in the USA.<br /><br />The HST, sale of BC Rail and countless other atrocities foisted upon the citizens of BC by the BC Liberal Party since 2001 fit the message of the song to a "T".<br /><br />No matter what obstacles the establishment puts before us, no matter how many mistruths they utter and no matter what sleight of hand they will no likely attempt utilize in tallying the ballots, WE MUST PREVAIL. To capitulate and accept the HST would do nothing but give our governing bodies, no matter what flavour, a signal that we are nothing but chattels to be used and abused. <br /><br />CamCrankypantsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-24442082174219996582011-06-13T15:18:29.428-07:002011-06-13T15:18:29.428-07:00Wikileaks has said, the N.A.U. is coming. Is it no...Wikileaks has said, the N.A.U. is coming. Is it not the giant wealthy corporations, who are behind all of this insanity? <br /><br />Who owns all of BC's vast natural resources? The BC people certainly don't benefit from them. Do any of the politicians, we have caught thieving and lying to us, get punished for their crimes? Absolutely not. Campbell's theft and corrupt sale of the BCR, went unpunished. The tax payers even paid Campbell for stealing from us. De Jong thieved our tax dollars, and paid the two patsies, who took the fall for Campbell, all of their legal fees.<br /><br />What does BC benefit from, the Enbridge pipeline, and the dirty oil tankers from China, in our beautiful northern coast? The U.S. also want to line their dirty oil tankers, along side of China's, for the dirty crude, from the dirty Alberta tar sands too. The U.S. will get the dirty crude, even if they have to train it there in tanker cars.<br /><br />Who owns our many mines? Not the province nor the people. We should be getting a hell of a lot more than jobs, from our resources. <br /><br />Who do you think, our clean drinking water is going to go to? Our clean water will go private too. Who is destroying our clean underground water, for hundreds of miles, by fracking for gas? Do you think, these greedy, monster company's give a damn, if they pollute this entire province. The hell they do.<br /><br />We own nothing, we have no say. We have no Civil Rights and Liberties. Our Democracy and Freedom, is being taken away from us. We don't even own our own damned country. We have been given away. The entire globe, is being sectioned off into Unions. And, no-one sees what is happening, except the American people. They are going to fight the N.A.U. Canadians won't, until it's too late.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-9193394642056217282011-06-13T09:42:47.628-07:002011-06-13T09:42:47.628-07:00Here is a link to the Bill Gross article.
http://...Here is a link to the Bill Gross article.<br /><br />http://www.cnbc.com/id/43378973Grant Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11944976348166120530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-13143525116536554682011-06-13T09:41:56.497-07:002011-06-13T09:41:56.497-07:00Well well well, this is from Bill Gross from Pimco...Well well well, this is from Bill Gross from Pimco on how much debt the USA has..Bill Gross`s article was published Monday June 13th/2011...TODAY..Here is a little cut n paste from that article<br /><br />_______________________________________<br /><br />When adding in all of the money owed to cover future liabilities in entitlement programs the US is actually in worse financial shape than Greece and other debt-laden European countries, Pimco's Bill Gross told CNBC Monday.<br /><br />Bill Gross<br />Getty Images<br />Much of the public focus is on the nation's public debt, which is $14.3 trillion. But that doesn't include money guaranteed for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, which comes to close to $50 trillion, according to government figures.<br /><br />The government also is on the hook for other debts such as the programs related to the bailout of the financial system following the crisis of 2008 and 2009, government figures show.<br /><br />Taken together, Gross puts the total at "nearly $100 trillion," that while perhaps a bit on the high side, places the country in a highly unenviable fiscal position that he said won't find a solution overnight.<br /><br />"To think that we can reduce that within the space of a year or two is not a realistic assumption," Gross said in a live interview. "That's much more than Greece, that's much more than almost any other developed country. We've got a problem and we have to get after it quickly."<br />_____________________________________<br /><br />What did I say yesterday...$100 trillion...HmmmGrant Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11944976348166120530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-68688307925855983422011-06-13T03:15:04.590-07:002011-06-13T03:15:04.590-07:00Consider who's promoting the harmonized sales ...Consider who's promoting the harmonized sales tax - <br /><br />The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, the Coal Association of Canada, the Council of Forest Industries, the New Car Dealers Association of British Columbia and the Railway Association of Canada. What do these organizations have in common? Well, for starters, each of them is a lobby group. That means they're responsible for promoting the best interest of their members. But there's one other thing they have in common.<br /><br />Each of them - along with 38 other lobby groups - is a member of the Smart Tax Alliance.<br /><br />That's the organization that's trying to convince you to vote in favour of the harmonized sales tax because they say it's in your best interest.<br /><br />Now, I'd never claim to be an an expert on taxes. I'm not an economist. But I do have some expertise in dealing with sources, having been a journalist for the past eight years.<br /><br />So if a source that gets paid to promote a private interest tells me something is in the public interest, I'd have to question that source's motivations.<br /><br />And perhaps you should too, in the lead up to the referendum on the harmonized sales tax.<br /><br />(Thanks to Sean.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-23950385043887411002011-06-12T21:02:45.950-07:002011-06-12T21:02:45.950-07:00The HST push in Canada is only the beginning.
It`...The HST push in Canada is only the beginning.<br /><br />It`s a prelude to the elimination of all corporate taxes and a move to straight consumption taxes.<br /><br />Interest rates will never rise again, the reason" Governments owe so much money that if interest rates rose by even 3% from current levels most countries would default and or use their entire tax base paying only interest payments.<br /><br />Think about it, the USA owes roughly $100 trillion dollars if you count State debt, national debt, municipal debt, future obligations to medi care and social security.<br /><br />Right now the interest on their just National debt alone is about $370 billion dollars per year, that`s at an interest rate of almost zero...<br /><br />Imagine the interest payment alone if interest rates rose to even 5%.<br /><br />Once the HST is in place they can raise it and raise they will, you will hear things like..<br /><br />The HST in Canada is only 15%, it`s 24% in Greece, we are raising the HST to 18% but don`t worry, the HST is 30% Italy...And up and up it will go, and the economists will say that consumption is a choice and if you don`t want to pay don`t consume.<br /><br />Until we rise up, until Americans rise up, Canadians rise up nothing will change.<br /><br />The Air Canada strike is a perfect example, a piecemeal offer to the last few older workers and a gutting of pensions, wages, standards for all new employees, pilots and stewardesses are now MC jobs, what skill is required to smile and serve coffee, planes fly themselves.<br /><br />Sawmills will be 99% automated, heck, we don`t even need employees at McDonalds, automation can do it all, or at least 99% of everything.<br /><br />And if you don`t like there are billions of slaves around the world that will work for the privilege of eating.<br /><br />That folks is what we are fighting for.<br /><br />And it starts with the HSTGrant Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11944976348166120530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-77610137196172031812011-06-12T20:32:30.151-07:002011-06-12T20:32:30.151-07:00I read today in the Province that it's not loo...I read today in the Province that it's not looking good for the HST in that they believe that the Libs jumped the gun.<br />My question will always be: I understand that the HST is good for business bookkeeping, but the Libs cannot deny that the combined tax was expanded to a wide variety of things that will cost all taxpayers a lot more than $350 per year. <br />Why was there not a third option and keep the tax without expanding it?<br />Is it because the Libs are in debt up to their asses?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-10721323329693763062011-06-12T10:42:02.664-07:002011-06-12T10:42:02.664-07:00Hi Grant.
That`s o.k. thanks.
Walter v E.Hi Grant.<br /><br />That`s o.k. thanks.<br /><br />Walter v E.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-22301230850280207552011-06-11T23:34:30.024-07:002011-06-11T23:34:30.024-07:00Walter V E.....I removed your last comment...I can...Walter V E.....I removed your last comment...I can return it, anger sometimes gets the best of us, myself included..<br /><br />Leave the real nasty comments for me.<br /><br /><br />Good DayGrant Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11944976348166120530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-82773107685682543732011-06-11T15:10:50.623-07:002011-06-11T15:10:50.623-07:00Vaughn Palmer on the Clean Energy Act:
http://www...Vaughn Palmer on the Clean Energy Act:<br /><br />http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Opinion+Hydro+needs+more+flexibility+planning+future/4924238/story.htmlHughnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-41051353300279899782011-06-11T14:47:44.964-07:002011-06-11T14:47:44.964-07:00http://ca.news.yahoo.com/stormy-skies-canadas-midd...http://ca.news.yahoo.com/stormy-skies-canadas-middle-class-151419160.html<br /><br />Lieberals/Cons. Not for the ordinary working folks. <br /><br />Vote YES to extinguish the HST.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-2345973252107176232011-06-11T13:15:21.032-07:002011-06-11T13:15:21.032-07:00With all your help we are going to send Crusty Cla...With all your help we are going to send Crusty Clark to Hell...Have you heard the latest, Doctors are being attacked now, they are being asked to RATION HEALTH CARE...And there`s more..<br /><br />Les Leyne has reported that the BC Liberals cap n trade plan has been ordered dead by the corporations...Marc Jackass Jaccard who promoted cap n trade and the carbon tax on you the people...<br /><br />Jaccard has sided with industry and says no to cap n trade...Jaccard says we have a carbon tax on the public,and that is good enough, leave business alone, as you know Jackass Jaccard the BC Liberal conman attacked the NDP for proposing a carbon tax for big industry(Oil n gas and the cement industry)...Jaccard snubbed that idea...<br /><br />Yes indeed, Big business asks and big business receives.<br /><br />Bring on the election anytime, July/August/tomorrow..Anytime is good..<br /><br />From my sources, there are 7 BC Liberals preparing to jump ship and run as BC Conservatives..<br /><br />And thanks for the kind comments, you humble me.<br /><br />Good DayGrant Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11944976348166120530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-67963788603427096252011-06-11T12:49:31.275-07:002011-06-11T12:49:31.275-07:00It's a given, the people of BC are against the...It's a given, the people of BC are against the HST. But, i think the BC Liberals will cheat the referendum vote. Craig James of Elections BC, isn't exactly lily white. He is a friend of Campbell's, and Campbell chose him, to do his dirty work for him. And, James certainly did use dirty tactics. <br /><br />The HST was the worst thing ever, that has ever happened to the BC people. The HST has caused thousands of job losses. <br /><br />The recession has carried on in BC, for the people. There is no "trickle" down money nor jobs, for BC citizens from big business, by merit of the HST. We are much worse of than ever. <br /><br />On the news, they say the economy is tanking again. I know, there are more mill workers to be laid off. BC people are just not going to survive the HST, come winter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-26270985967243944262011-06-11T11:33:26.218-07:002011-06-11T11:33:26.218-07:00Great post Grant, Way past time to remind Cluck Cl...Great post Grant, Way past time to remind Cluck Cluck and her gang that THEY ARE PUBLIC SERVANTS repeat SERVANTS. Thanks!<br /><br />The van will be coming on Thursday!!<br /><br />See you there.<br /><br />JeanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-85615534662620248322011-06-11T10:41:49.539-07:002011-06-11T10:41:49.539-07:00Great commentary Grant, and thanks for the words o...Great commentary Grant, and thanks for the words of support. We shall overcome...this corporate agenda! KimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-5486393690677673232011-06-11T10:40:36.659-07:002011-06-11T10:40:36.659-07:00Good post.
We are definitely coming down to it.
...Good post. <br /><br />We are definitely coming down to it.<br /><br />But, i reckon it's about time for a long mail strike (just kidding, to lighten the mood a bit).Progress Board To Be(e) Surenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-87926662306788291522011-06-11T07:52:15.170-07:002011-06-11T07:52:15.170-07:00What a great article. This fight is about democra...What a great article. This fight is about democracy, honesty and integrity.<br /><br />I am a senior, born and raised in Victoria. I was involved in the original anti-HST petition and have been involved ever since. Never been political in my life. Never voted NDP. <br /><br />The lies continue regarding the HST. The Smart Tax alliance, in a town-hall meeting the other night, continually referred to the HST at 10%. Even had phamplets printed up referring to the HST as 10%.<br /><br />I was polled the other night - the question - Press #2 if you are voting no to keep the HST at 10%, or press #3 if you are voting YES to get rid of the HST and return to the GST/PST at 12%.<br /><br />The lies from the pro HST side continue and their attempts to confuse and mislead people are offensive. I will not be bribed with my own money. <br /><br />I will be voting YES to get rid of the HST and come the next election, I will be voting for anyone other than the lying, corrupt Liberals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com