Hrumph...............

Baldrey is a Gordo puppy and reports what the "Gordo" wants him to report!

Over the weekend, several news sources have reported that Gordo has been revitalized by the Olympics and intends to stay on for a forth election.

Time for the Tyee and all those new blogs to dig dirt, my god there is so much of it around, and shovel it at Gordo and the Libs.

They are such easy targets, only the inept Carole James can't seem to hit the mark!

I've lived under every known

I've lived under every known political ideology in 4 countries, but I find the corruption of the present BCLib and federal Conservative, basically both rejuvenated Reform Party governments, absolutely astonishing.

The astonishing part is that the public lets them get away with it.

Ed Deak. Big Lake

Ed Deak

For a long time its been noticed that older people care more about their society than the young. The young have turned their backs on voting, that's a part of why governments like Harper's and Campbell's get away with it.

To paraphrase a well-worn phrase, this is what apathy looks like.

I agree with you completely

I agree with you completely Ed but I would add that the mass-media has a hand in it too. I don't know if you get CKNW up your way, but if one wants to get an inkling on how the average person thinks in Canada/BC then tune into that station and brace yourself. Occasionally I listen to it and as time goes on I get the feeling that we have alot of angry rabid-right-wing lunatics lurking in the shadows. And thats who our present '2 wonderful' governments cater to.

The fluid beginning of the Golden Decade

After the Olympics Gordon will announce that the Golden Decade really started in 2010. Why? Well he thinks we are all stupid.

correction

I regret that I misread the figures and should not have included weight and post-secondary completion in my list of measures where the government was not exceeding its baseline. The most recent measures are worse than the baselines in three measures, not five as I originally wrote.

Golden for some.

The business community runs our society, for better or worse.
They import 45,000 foreign workers each year.
In 2006 they’re where 65,000 jobs created in BC, and we graduated 45,000 students.
These numbers mean 20,000 of our own citizens have no jobs to go to each year.
No wonder the ever-worsening numbers of homeless. “And they are just numbers to Campbell and his friends.”
The middle class that has to pay that $55,000 per homeless person per year, should be bitching at the business community, for generating such poverty.
Stop bitching about how lazy our young are, stop saying go find a job.
Please, Please don’t hire foreigners, and if you do could they at least speak understandable English.
I live in a small town that hired the first nations from 3 local bands, in 2009, about 95% of the first nation workers where replaced by people from India, Korea, Mexico, and the Philippines.
Stop bitching about welfare payments of any kind.

And then there was Tourism

..."doubling tourism" by destroying Tourism BC, slashing the arts, and introducing the HST.

Golden decade for Campbell and his cronies

was his real measure!

"Mad Men"

I heard this while watching "Mad Men" and it reminded me of Campbell and the BC Liberals.
"It wasn't a lie, it was ineptitude with insufficient cover."

One could spend some time making comparisons between the sleazy dealing of the characters in the series and the BC Liberals but I will leave that up to you. At least for now. Perhaps it could be the subject of an article on The Tyee

Finishing the Task of an Earlier Generation...

The reign of Campbell really has to be seen, in my view, as but a continuation of the early Neoconazi Period pioneered by young Bill Bennet, here in BC, in the late 70s-early 80s. Who, along with Reagan in Amerika, Thatcher in England, and Mike Harris in Ontario, in this country, collectively ushered in this current Fascist-Conservative period. Campbell, like Harper, is but the second generation of Neoconazi political leadership, in this process, in this country.

It has been to this lot, to undo for capitalism, the previous Prosperity Period of Socialized Capitalism that was established out of the working-class struggle period of the last Great Depression through to the post WW2, ending with the working class/trade union abandonment of the field of battle and acceptance of defeat in the late 70s.

Campbell is actually squat, but a mouthpiece for ruling class rule, which he has represented in this second phase of fascist-capital rule. And he is only so because the working class that arose during the Prosperity Period of Socialized Capitalism in the postwar Prosperity Period, was replaced in the ongoing process of succession by a generation that forgot its own working class history that had led to there.

As a consequence, this time and its confluence of generations is where it is today, a victim of its own failure of vigilance and readiness to do battle with the ruling class, through to the completion of a great historic victory.

So we are where we are... where there is a collective need to re-connect with our own class struggle history, and a preparedness to again pick up the tools and weapons from that field of battle earlier abandoned. This time carrying through to a proper conclusive working class victory over the new neoconazi forces of capitalism.

It really is this simple... and this complex and fraught with danger.

Screw Campbell. We need to focus on our own imperatives, and prepare our own end run around these Neoconazi Guardians of The System.

The Future Continues to Unfold

And a Happy and Successful Hew Year to all you brothers, sisters, and camrades. Embrace the struggle. There is no way around it... unless you are content to continue to live as slaves.

And to all of you fine folks who bring us Tyee, regardless of what we think of each other in other ways. I genuinely value what you do. :-)

Peace. No shit.

The Big Lie

The BC Libs practice the "Big Lie" like no one I've seen. An acquiescent, corporate-dominated media is also a big factor. If you insist long enough and persistently that billions of dollars of road building will contribute to fewer exhaust emissions from idling cars is "green", you will wear down your opponents, aided by the fact the MSM has the attention span of a gnat and gatekeepers who seem to be in the pocket of the government.

When did the MSM last remind you of the the astonishing gag order that has become standard operating procedure for Harper and his minions? Civil servants are afraid for their careers. All Harper's ministers are control freaks who must approve anything going out to the public.