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Cue up August 20/9:00 am.....Baldrey makes the statement shortly after the 9:00 am news.
And in other news Gordon Campbell`s ex Attorney General Geoff Plant who was representing big industry got slamma jamma hammered in court.....WE WON...(round 1).
It looks like Christy Cluck Cluck Clark`s legal opinion and assessment was flawed, last week Cluck Clark stated (On air) that Geoff Plant`s law suit.........(Geoff plant was Gordon Campbell`s attorney General, it was Geoff Plant who wrote the opinion piece on which the big business law suit was based on and Geoof Plant was representing big businss along with Peter Gall).......... in her opinion has merit and Vander Zalm`s doesn`t, gotcha again Christy Cluck Cluck Clark, Christy Cluck I think you should stick to watching the pathetic show Manswers on Spike TV(Christy cluck Clark stated on air that Manswers is her favorite television show) and leave legal opinions to the educated people of this Province!...
And here I wait patiently for the next ruling to come down, whether the imposition of the tax is even constitutional, as you know the BC Legislature never did vote on the HST, is was done through secrecy and stealth in Gordon Campbell`s office, in other words the tax was imposed through fiat, that my friends is illegal according to our Canadian constitution.
I expect the Campbell Goebbels propaganda machine(PAB) to get real busy spinning the news, they will talk about all the cuts to health, to education .....Oh My....We will have to pay back Ottawa all that money, oh the humanity, ........Well folks, we here at The Straight Goods have the answer, in fact I believe that there was a leaked story yesterday that has set the stage for Campbell`s next move........
The story was about ICBC, the timing of the story(the leak) is very suspicious to this persuader, apparantly ICBC has double the cash reserves for paying law suits and insurance claims that the industry standard require, any other `private` insurer by law would only need half the cash reserves that ICBC has, in fact private insurers reported that if there was auto insurance competition in this Province they would "eat ICBC`s lunch".....They would be able to have far far cheaper rates than what ICBC is delivering.....
So heres the deal folks, ICBC has cash reserves of $3.1 billion dollars, they at most need cash reserves of $1.55 billion dollars, it`s very obvious that ICBC has been over charging BCers, rates should be lowered, they would be lower if we had competition, but we don`t ........
Have a close look at those numbers folks, think about the timing, the day before the Zalm "SLAMMA JAMMAed" Geoff Plant and Gordon Campbell this ICBC story shows up....Suspicious no?
So, theorectically Gordon Campbell could scoop the ICBC cash($1.55 billion) and repay Ottawa, no cuts, no hole in the budget, "No passing on the debt to future generations".......Isn`t that what the "Habitual Liar Gordon Campbell" always says? And ICBC would still have $1.55 billion dollars of cash reserves, more than enough for all future claims.
The stage has been set friends, we have the money, no cuts, no adding to the deficit, no future burden on our starving children.....
Think outside of the box folks......We have the answer, Gordon Campbell has found himself an out, he better use it, because believe me, if Colin (Martian head) Hansen and Habitual Liar Gordon Campbell attempt to delay until spring "Recall in Fall" will prevail, mark my words! You can read the ICBC story here
And on a final note friends, what the hell are we paying politicians money for if their taking half the year off and not sitting in the people`s house, and just out of curiosity, MLA`s get a stipend of $21,000 dollars per year for accommodations, in other words they get money when the house sits, politicians from other parts of the Province have to stay somewhere when in Victoria, if the "People`s House" doesn`t sit than ALL monies for accomadations should be yanked, and that`s goes for Ida (lobster bisque)Chong too....No money for meals!!!!!
The Straight Goods
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