Christy Clark, Woman of the 90s

Don`t you love the rain, clean refreshing water, and I am not talking about drizzy rain but a big heavy never ending down pour making sweet music on the roof, I`m not sure why but I have always been drawn to the rain, whether playing, working even walking in mother nature`s shower a clarity of thought and reason fill my mind, maybe it`s the noise of my own thoughts being drowned with the sound of water.

Whatever the reason isn`t important and before I get started, I can tell you that I have never had such a nasty week on line, the name calling, both ways, yes friends I did participate in that nasty form of banter, for the present I have decided to agree to disagree and move on, others can own the self pity plank,  I haven`t taken my eye off the prize, off the privalege, off the honour of guiding our Province forward with good honest policy, there is so much at stake this time.

We have lived through a decade of Campbell Liberal policies and direction and it`s clear that it is unsustainable, something has to give, the far right wing ideology and free enterprise, de-regulation look the other way isn`t working, for a decade wealth transfer through taxation, user fees, levies and tax shifts and the most insideous theft through utilitiy rate increases reaching 120%  in 6 years, add in the  two tier rate structure and thousands of $dollars are siphoned from the middleclass, carbon taxes, the necesseties of life, fuel, heat, power and ultimately survival, for none of those items any of us can live without, to be bled dry for the sole purpose of making Plutonic power, Finavera, General electric shareholders a little happier and making a handful of corporate Government friends ultra rich,it`s all wrong.

Bugger up our rivers and mess with the fish for no other reason but creating wealth for the few and darn it folks, we, we the people should own wealth creation from our rivers, just imagine, a BC Government that paid contractors, or BC Hydro themselves built these projects, if we did sell power any profits would flow to Government coffers, the work would get done, the capital investment, the jobs, there is absolutely no shortage of skilled workers and companies that would build run of river power generators(Water diversion) without the demands of owning them, Gordon Campbell`s Liberals messed up badly, on the environment and on the economic end, any rating agency in the world, any accountant, anyone with connected brain cells who looks at the Liberals IPP and energy plan are shocked, the unanimous opinion is....... The Campbell Liberals would be fired in the private sector, ridiculed as being inept but the most popular assertion is....There must be corruption and pay-offs, directorships, what else could explain the worst business arrangement in British Columbia history.....We own the rivers, we own the water, .......We give the river and water away, Plutonic, General electric divert the water through tunnels and turbines, we guarantee them a massive stream of cash for 30 years, we guarantee a rate over and above the market rate by a factor between 3 and 8 times, these companies have no risk, guaranteed revenue regardless of the price, electric prices could crash and we pay, we pay for energy we don`t need, use or pay and with the world in flux, reccessions, depressions, with all kinds of cheap domestic power sources coming on line and hydro use through efficiency of everything, including incandescent lighting,  the price, the ability to pay, especially for our neighbors south will almost guarantee we lose money for decades.

Schools, we can`t morally close more schools, the demographics will change and babies will be born, maybe with a return of the "socialist Hoardes"  families could afford to have a basket full of kids, we all remember that, wow, remember the street ball hockey, just dad working with enough money for the car, house, groceries, everything....How was that possible, were Governments not as corrupt, shareholders and CEOs had a conscience, the good corporate citizen, maybe the banks didn`t need record profits every year, whatever the reason those times are gone, now, two parents working, no kids, one kid, two mortgages and now up to their eyeballs in debt, Canadians on average have $1.45 of debt for every dollar they have, the pendulum must swing back to people...

We have a tsunami of baby boomers coming down the pipe, unless the "socialist Hoardes" are put in charge there will be no public health care or public education, we live in a beautiful wet rain forest, we have natural wealth, we have no reason to exploit it, we need to nuture it, be responsible, maximize the benefits, there are generations behind us, we can`t merely leave the 50th generation behind us the return of BC Rail and nothing else, they need to see Salmon, trees, they need to feel the heavy wet rain drops, they need to be able to do a moondance on an oil free sandy Ucluelet beach to the sounds of Orca singing......

Which brings me to Christy Clark, can anyone tell me what her platform is, I heard her campaign launch speech and from what I gather is her platform is the..... oh so tired spin that Christy and the Campbell Gang used to perfection, Christy has come out swinging against the NDP, the "socialist hoardes"...Christy isn`t swinging against the Wall Street criminals and their ponzi schemes which started this latest depression, she`s not going after the plump banks or wealthy gas and oil drillers, no friends, Christy has but one platform and one tired old ideology,......

Christy Clark`s platform is, vote for me to keep the NDP out.....That`s it folks, Christy Clark has been clucking about the big labour movement and how to stop the union takeover, well folks, there are no unions anymore, well barely, what`s left of big labour in BC has been losing, wage concessions with zero-zero-and zero- increases, with the exception of politicians and radio talk show hosts wages are flat and falling, in fact, British Columbia has a lower minimum wage today then we had 10 years ago...in 2000 the minimum wage was $8 dollars per hour, in 2010 the minimum wage is $6 dollars per hour, the lowest in Canada by a country mile, unions were so 90s or even earlier, with Asians willing to work for a few dollars a day, gladly taking not only our logs but our mills too, global competition and corporate control guarantees that unions will never flourish again, I think the public are aware of that and now their demands, their expectations have diminished, the security of affordible health care, education, food and the necessities of life is all people want, Christy Clark is a dinosaur, in fact she is already lying in public, she lied about the "socialist Hoardes" driving people from the Province in the 90s, Andrew MaCleod at the Tyee broke down that lie for us.  Christy Clark has also been talking about making the  Tesako mine and destruction of Fish Lake an election issue, a project that poisons water, kills animals, kills a lake and every darn fish, a project that even a Federal Conservative Government couldn`t endorse because of the devastating environmental damage.

Christy Clark also made a boo boo about the HST, she suggested to forego the referendum in September and put the HST to a vote in the legislature, interesting since Christy can`t vote and the BC Liberals already voted on the HST, the pundits claim Christy Clark is confused, well folks, I have thought about what Christy Clark said about having a vote...And I have come to the conclusion that Christy Clark isn`t the one who is confused but the political pundits...

Let`s look at Christy Clark`s record on cknw radio, the HST fraud was foisted on us in July 2009, 2 weeks after the election, Christy Clark has been defending the HST on radio ever since, with people like Neils Veldhuis of the Fraser institute, Michael Levy, Michael Campbell, John Winters, Hocstein, Sam, hundreds of BC Liberal supporters have been featured by Clark on her show in defence of the HST......Bring on the people`s revolution, 700,000 BCers sign the anti-hst petition, something everyone said couldn`t be done, despite the ad nauseum from Bill Good, Christy Clark, Colin Hansen and the other stooges the people spoke, .....Craig James and big business court challenge continued the dirty work of the Liberals in an attempt to squash the petition, the people won again, the petition was forwarded to the select legislative committee, the committee, with a Liberal majority, they had but one of two choices to make, either send the HST petition to a non-binding referendum or send it to the house for a vote on the HST, a vote where everyone of the MLAs stand up and vote for the HST again, if that had been done, the Liberal majority could have rammed the HST down our throats and we`re stuck with it, political suicide in my opinion but the discussion over the tax would be over.

So what Christy Clark actually said was.....Let`s have a vote in the legislature, the Liberals vote for the HST, the HST will then be the law of the land, Christy Clark then cancels the referendum(because the result of that referendum is already known, HST REJECTED)  ....That folks is what Christy Clark said, it`s the only logical answer, she has defended the hst with vigor for 18 months, Christy on radio wanted the hst Liberal dominated  legislative committee to send the HST to the house for a vote rather than a Province wide referendum, vote it in and move on!.....There is no confusion by me on this matter, Christy Clark wants to ram the HST down our throats in the legislature and screw the referendum, it`s the only logical conclusion considering her stance and support of the tax!...Christy as premier would send the HST petition back to the Liberal dominated committee and direct them to choose the other option, a House Vote, something Campbell avoided doing because of Recall fears.


Remember, the Liberals voted on mass for the hst in the last spring session, the only reason for another vote in the House is to fill the demands of the successful petition, remember...There were two remedies, the first being a non-binding referendum, the second being a vote in the house. The Liberals use their majority to vote it in again, shazzam, now there is no requirement for the referendum, that folks is where Christy is going! What would Clark do if the HST vote passed, tell the MLAs that the vote now doesn`t count and we are now going to a referendum?   The only way another vote could take place would be under the successful anti-hst petition rules, (referendum or house vote)......Christy would be asking the MLAs to vote for the tax, she supports the tax.....


I believe that Christy Clark is laying a trap, she comes with a populous stance(a free vote in the house on the hst)...But the vote would be under the successful hst petition banner, the consequences of the vote would be nullification of the referendum, and....Hear me very clearly, if there was a vote in the house on the HST the big business community could launch another legal challenge saying the petition act was fulfilled with a free vote in the house..(I think legally, that challenge would have legs, do you trust Hocstein and the business community too not launch a law suit?)


Think about it, the law suit gets launched, it ends the referendum, Christy Clark and the BC Liberals put their hands in the air and say....It`s not us, it`s before the courts!  Something really fishy going on here,

Christy Clark is old, tired, ad nauseum, she hasn`t progressed into the future and is stuck in a time warp somewhere around 1996, she doesn`t want to get along, Christy Clark wants to refight fast ferries, unions, schools, health care, and the environment, there is no point fighting those things Christy, they died years ago, where were you? And as you noticed from my last post, Christy Clark can lie with professional ease, she can argue not knowing any facts and or choosing to ignore them, what comes out of her mouth is anti ndp venom and hyperbole from the 90s....We need a leader of the future, not a prima donna who failed to finish everything she started, we don`t need another liar and time warp victim....

Meanwhile the rain is drumming on the roof and I have an urge to go outside and do a moondance, even when it`s hiding, I hope the neighbors aren`t up!

The Straight Goods

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