Barry Artiste Op/Ed
With the upcoming Provincial Elections in 2009 , The NDP leader Carole James promise of an Economic windfall spending of 2.5 Billion dollars for the British Columbians leaves many to wonder what she has been smoking?
Does Miss. Spendy for your Votes not realise in these tough economic times all over the world, one does not spend and promise to throw out 2.5 Billion Dollars of taxpayers money to bail out your Provincial infrastructure to boost your budgetary bank balance and keep government civil servants in the gravy and employed?
Cause dollars to donuts, ya think we are in an economic crisis now, just wait till we are really, really in the hole with 2.5 Billion dollar tax bill knocking at our future paycheques.
Perhaps Carole feels we all forgot when they were in power a few years back, with them there 1 billion dollar Pacific FastCat Ferries they built, only to find out they were not suitable to our waters and sold them to an American firm for a paltry $20 million dollars. Yep, that made economic sense!
As for the little old lady’s remark of Too Late, I think it is appropriate!
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2008/10/29/7238151-cp.html
NDP leader says voter fatigue a hurdle in B.C. byelections
By Dirk Meissner, THE CANADIAN PRESS
VICTORIA, B.C. – B.C. New Democrat Leader Carole James says voters are worn out, making it difficult to campaign for Wednesday’s two provincial byelections.
James said she’s encountered voter fatigue in dramatic fashion while door-knocking in the vacant Vancouver-Burrard and Vancouver-Fairview ridings.
One elderly Vancouver woman welcomed her into her home but politely told her she was too late for the Oct. 14 federal election, James said.
“There’s voter fatigue, there’s no question about that,” she said. James said the elderly woman told her: “Oh, it’s wonderful to see you dear, I’m really glad you’re here, but you’re a little late.” She said the woman had no idea the B.C. New Democrat leader was campaigning for two provincial byelections.
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