Dying Days of a Corrupt Government(How are you?)

It`s been a while hasn`t it, I mean since we last talked, how are you, how`s life, everything is well?...and don`t answer me with "great, couldn`t be better" isn`t that response standard fare, how many of us too stick to scripted answers rather than bleed your soul....

It`s not easy coming here, and it`s not easy answering "great, couldn`t be better" when you want to scream, want to cry want just to be held and comforted, weather`s getting cold, not ice cold but west coast damp, like the rain too, it soothes, being comfortably baked by summer`s warm friendly orange visitor or embracing with rain`s cleansing kisses to be held is to behold, for mother nature`s wrap and comfort comes no strings attached, it requires nothing in return, no bond is purer...

This town, like hundreds of little towns, its old, old and left to die, roads these days never seem to get potholes fixed, highway out of town is in good shape though, wonder if that`s a hint, old families and long blood lines dominate but every year even those legends fade, we had logging, wild sport salmon fishing and a commercial fleet, the relevant word is "had", we had it all, and then we didn`t, logs and logging went first, then our salmon vanished and with that so did world class fishing and a profitable commercial fishery, from teeming salmon all year round to maybe a few stragglers once or twice a year, where, what, when, how, why are they gone..

Most children left for the big city for work, services for those who remain are gradually removed and concentrated in city hubs, for to travel for healthcare is to dismantle the village, old men and old woman who bought properties and laid roots in the 60`s 70`s, 80`s believed in their town, believed in renewal believed in the common good, not expecting luck, irony or both to decide who won, and who lost..

He who resided in swanky Vancouver or she who raised working men in the hurtland, one home owner is now a millionaire the other a pauper, one with a way to finance a retirement the other trapped by economics, a lost world no one will buy into for half its worth, and to go, go where, to live in hovel near promised lands, town after British Columbia town neglected and left for dead and as much as it pains me to say it, it was deliberate guile and revenge that chose which communities were chocked, Vancouver island and its highways along with ferry rates, this happened at the ballot box, ridings that vote left are punished, ridings with no hope of ever turning BC Liberal in name only neocon-Socred red will always be left threadbare, free bridges and toll free roads for some while working stiffs pay and pay, and now as revenue streams dwindle to a trickle, future taxes for friends removed, from brewers to shippers to river destroyers, from subsidy to guaranteed long term public largesse, even our Crown corporations looted, BC Hydro, a company with a captive domestic customer, a company that never needed to look at debt, looted by BC Liberals, looted by $billions, energy buying contracts, energy that wasn`t needed, contracts guaranteeing huge profits for decades, profits for connected insiders and friends of the Campbell brothers, Smart meters too, another $billion dollar theft and assault on workers, that being meter readers, a gawd-ugly device that robs taxpayers on both ends, $ hundreds of millions in upfront costs building the devices and then monthly theft, real-time billing devices for local residents when we can`t give our power away to paying customers, that being the power we`re forced to buy at $140 megawatt hour...

Community, your town, my town, why wasn`t little town British Columbia offered up these glorious money stream guarantees, if ratepayers were to be gouged why not the benefit accruing to those towns whose rivers were taken, deliberate reckless acts were and still are being perpetrated upon us, foreign workers, labour shortages and the ever coming the sky is falling the sky is falling bullshit about needed future workers.. 14 years these temporary coal miners will stay, unless they leave in a coffin, energy projects are temporary, mines are temporary, LNG plants are temporary as are pipelines, if company X can get cheap labour they will, the rules removed, the continued assault on labour, nothing else can be outsourced, China and India make near everything so future outsourcing is in decline, the new booming industry taking hold is in insourcing resource extraction, can`t move mineral and gas deposits to China therefor bring the company here, bring the slave labour, sign agreements with complicit treasonous Governments and the last piece is in place..States like Michigan, people like Scott Walker, Phil Hocstein, Fraser institute and all federal Conservative MPs, our phony BC Liberal named neocons, the extent of revenue and  revenue sources given away ran so deep that even Conservatives themselves became targets....

Hit those Fraser valley working stiffs with tolls, they may be our voters but we need more money, more public revenue streams privately flowing to those connected, them bible belt thumpers will never vote for the Socialist horde, damn stupid hicksters...

 Crony capitalism disguised as free enterprise, LNG sellers waiting for guaranteed free power, miners waiting for free transmission lines and public built roads, river dammers needing guarantees for decades for merely placing turbines in rivers, even wealthy brewers get $millions in tax relief for the price of only $140,000..this isn`t free enterprise it`s Facism, Corporatism and it`s growing....

In Ottawa attacks on unions are constant, Caterpillar, Air Canada, Aveos and Canada Post are but a few examples.

Drive the people into overpriced cities and chain them to an unforgiving hampster wheel, tear down our diversity, choke off resources that once fed communities and when these towns die open the floodgates to temporary cheap labour filled foreign Government entities..

I mentioned how one can embrace nature without guilt or payment, children too, unbiased loving embraces wanting only warmth and comfort in return, mother nature and the child, purity without guile or want, to give one`s all in exchange for nothing but a smile and a raindrop...

Rich Coleman, Christy Clark, Pat Bell, $hundreds of thousands of dollars paid to liars and thieves, who elected Christy Clark, not the public a political party, a political party appointed a female facade to con us into believing there`s change, and all she`s managed to do is spend on personal friends, spend tens of millions in propaganda ads, ads of deceit and misinformation,... Rich Coleman who gave away vast tracks of Crown land to forest companies, his brother a CEO of one of those companies, Coleman working hand in hand with Patrick Kinsella, Coleman and casino expansion, Coleman and smart meters, Coleman attempting to giveaway our liquor distribution, Coleman for political donations gave a multi-millionaire brewery owner tens of millions in tax cuts..
Pat Bell, liar and spinner of facts, deny job losses and trumpet record raw logs to China, record export shipments of coal, record export of toxic farmed fish and there he stands, Pat Bell claiming all this success even though deficit number-5-in-a-row presents itself, where are the royalties, why are we still losing jobs, 5000 lost jobs last month and 10,000 lost jobs the month before and the propaganda ads continue unabated, ads bragging of huge LNG monies and countless new hires, and when questioned on validity and accuracy of said ads Christy Clark claims the ads are "feel-good messaging"..we will never get honest answers forthcoming from these habitual liars, they`ve dived too deep into the cesspool to ever resurface..

Christy Clark, a school drop-out, an intellectual idiot, a partisan women without enough qualifications to be hired as a pre-school teacher, the same teachers she screamed at on air for years, the same teachers whose contracts she illegally ripped up, the same teachers she now wants to sign a 10 year deal with, Christy Clark, spending $millions on personal friends and oyster bar junkets, Christy Clark`s revolving door spin the bottle game of  office staff gymnastics, all in the name of finding a better-liar, a better gimmick, a better make-up artist..

All in vain, job numbers, deficit numbers, scandal after scandal, deadly hospitals, corruption, cronyism, a Government caught in obvious lie after obvious lie and where are the public watchdogs, where is the media, where are the pundits, are they all too busy counting advertising largesse, counting deficit dollars, counting money borrowed from China....Where have the ethics gone, would Global TV and the Vancouver Sun publish things like $trillions of dollars for BC in LNG royalties...600,000 workers needed...

And when those ads fail will those same advertisers use numbers like $ trillions for BC in LNG royalties....4 million workers required....

How low with the media go, what lies will they permit, what lies will they finally draw a line in the sand and say...NO, we can`t say that, it`s false advertising, it`s a blatant glaring lie...I suspect Global BC and Vancouver Sun have no moral or ethical guidelines, what is their excuse?..They didn`t know better, they know not of job numbers, of deficits, of LNG prices, oh indeed, how could they know, they are but manufactured news media, propaganda long ago replaced factual reporting, when did selling provincial assets to claim balanced budgets become media acceptable...For shame on them all..

Kevin Kreuger, a drunken lout, Bill Bennett the racist red neck..Harry Bloy the spineless jellyfish, Kash Heed with electoral fraud, Jane Thornthwaite drunk driver, Don pharmaceutical Mcrae who can`t form a cognizant thought, script reader after script reader standing before us lying their faces off..

Scandal, crimes, $ hundreds of millions spent on lawyers, on spin doctors, on reviews, on audits and on settlements, deficits, debts and malfeasance and there stands our media, hands in their pockets, looking the other way, paid to lie to you, paid for with your money.

Fund our schools, keep the heathcare local and fix the potholes and maybe that highway out of town won`t be calling..

My town is your town, starved of nourishment and left to wither and die, a little human caress and motherly love required, my neighbors have no where to go, fix the holes and keep the clinics open, oh to create a home care world that gives life back to little towns and communities rather than systematically starve the seeds of renewal..

A BC Government laden with the scum of the earth, a sad media borne of the spineless.


How are you, how`s life, everything is well?...

The Straight Goods

Cheers Eyes Wide Open