Isn't it interesting that

Isn't it interesting that "fiscally responsible conservatives" rack up incredible debts all over the world ?

Capitalist US is bankrupt and survives on communist China buying its worthless bonds to build up its own military and economic power to become world dictators.

It all started with "conservative" Reagan who racked up more debts in his 8 years than all previous Presidents combined. The same happened in Britain under Thatcher here under Mulroney and in BC under Campbell and successors, trebling the debt left by the NDP.

And all this mainly because "we can't tax the rich, because they create jobs"

Where ? In China and India? While destroying their home countries under the fraud of the "free movement of capital", "free trade" and "globalization" rackets ?

No wonder Harper wants to build the pipeline to Kitimat to make his communist brothers in China richer and more powerful.

Ed Deak.

Agree Grumpy and Fiat Lux.

Maybe we should have a "Fed-Up Rally" in Vancouver and near Falcon's riding. He certainly deserves one of his own. This whole BC Liberal farce is getting so predictable and tiresome.

More Fascist Shock Doctrine

Of course we are being primed to "privatize" (newspeak for give away) whatever is left of our resources and public infrastructure to appease banking gods and maintain our shaky credit rating. How is it these criminals rob us blind, burden our children and grandchildren with impossible debt, destroy our environment and continue to get re-elected? As Hitler once said "how lucky for the leaders that people do not think."

Normal, rational people do

Normal, rational people do think, but conservatives believe.

And "faith conquers all" . Especially logical thought.

Faith is the tragedy of the human race.

Ed Deak.

Is the HST really dead?

The foot-dragging and irrational explanations for the "complicated" return to the PST/GST makes one wonder if some sort of HST rescue effort isn't under way. Perhaps a redesigned, more palatable (I know...I know) version as part of a snap spring election platform.

As far as the trust deficit David mentions, it's funny how job losses and deficits are always a result of the world economy, but increased employment and budget surpluses are always due to the wisdom of the sitting government.

The Liberal & Main Stream Media's credo ~

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Joseph Goebbels

"it's funny how job losses

"it's funny how job losses and deficits are always a result of the world economy, but increased employment and budget surpluses are always due to the wisdom of the sitting government."

It's also funny that despite rhetoric to the contrary, the last time a "sitting government" showed a surplus, it was an NDP government,

...and sadly Grumpy is right

Let me add this line ...

In BC (and around the World), people keep on tolerating government and corporate criminals. What needs to happen to stop these psychopaths?
When will people realize enough is enough? When there will be nothing to eat, breath and live in dignity?
When will people rise and DEMAND change? Throw these pigs out of office and restore democracy?

When? I think the time is NOW!

Trust deficit? Not likely

Lacking credibility on every issue in the province, the present government in BC could not obtain a trust deficit as there isn’t any to begin with.

How about a Grey Rage Rally?

Trouble is, we all have arthritis. Sleeping in a tent, on a foam pad is for the kids. Meh!

We don't even need to move them on; winter will do that, quite nicely.

Enough is enough? Where were you?

People ARE rising and demanding change, protesting and occupying while we sit here at our computers and bemoan the lack of spirit.
The occupy movement is not just a rag tag group of hippies but a growing force to be reckoned with. Well, maybe Canada has a lot less to bemoan but give the Harpers and Clarks time, keep voting them in and we'll have no choice but to actually join those 'hippies', take up a placard and demand change on the streets and not from the safety of our computer dens.

where is that Grey Power?

all right get ready all you grey=haired citizens.
On Thursday, Dec 8 come to the Hilton Hotel, Vancouver Airport to protest the Deltaport Terminal, Road and Rail Improvement Project.
10 Am.

Bring signs about the 99% or whatever you like.

Strapped governments( BC and Canada) are spending needless money on Port and Highway Expansion: destroying agricultural land and important migratory bird habitat, to say nothing of the fish, orca etc. habitat and Burns Bog. Also a Tax Free Zone is proposed. Another project to enrich the government's friends.

Grey Power Protest

sorry wrong Date

Tuesday Dec. 6

Imagine they are have three Stakeholder meetings at various hotels around the city and two Open houses in Delta. We have seen those before - just a lot of boards showing how wonderful the project is. If you ask a question or pose a comment the hired PR firm just smiles and says they don't know.

Lizroy: do you realise that only 26% of the electorate voted

in the last municipal election? That isn't compatible with any claim about involvement by the public.

The Occupiers are OK by me, but what, exactly do they want? "The System" has never been "fair" in the sense that we all have to work for a living, and there are not enough jobs around right now.

So what is wrong with self employment? Instead of bashing the Big Companies, folks who want to work should investigate self employment as an option.

Union Friends?

Grumpy, I know lots of union leaders, and I can't think of a single one who is a friend of the BC Liberals. Can you?

All the biggest crimes

All the biggest crimes against humanity in history have been licenced by "faith", religions and ideologies. Otherwise, people could or would be living for the most part in peace with each other.

The suicide bombers are licenced and persuaded by their priests to blow themselves up and kill as many infidels as they can, to get fast trip to the seventh level of heaven.

Here, in our society, universities are brainwashing the Priesthood of the Money God, the so called "economists" to commit crimes and destruction against humanity and the ecology as "wealth creation"

There's no point in demonstrating against governments, because what they're doing against us is taught in our universities as the "science of economics".

Including the deregulated money creation powers of the banks, used as weapons to enslave us.

So, where are the demonstrations against the professors who are brainwashing their students, and the public, with this criminal monetary crap at the intellectual level of Mao's Cultural Revolution ?

Harper's actions are the best example of what happens when a low level mind is brainwashed in our "institutions of teaching" and not "learning".

Ed Deak.

Demonstrations

fiat Lux
You obviously believe that demonstrations don't matter, and to a certain extent you are correct. However making submissions to the Public Consultations on the Deltaport Terminal, Road and Rail Improvement Project isn't any better. At least a demonstration with a handout of facts might get some publicity.

do not forget the Occupy movement - it is not going away!

Computer Lies

As a long-time IT expert, I can tell everyone that using computer excuses for having to keep the PST is pure BS. Even if they sold the computer they still have backup media of the programs & data that could be installed on a rented computer in a day.
Do not give these liars an inch - they always lie.
If Falcon were Pinocchio he would be falling over his nose every time he opened his mouth.

BC GOVERNMENT TRUST????

I lost all trust in Government with the sale of BC RAIL,the promise was "WE WILL NOT SELL BC RAIL!! Bills 27 & 28 took $285 million dollars from the Education system, every year for the past 10 years - where did this money go to?? Where did the $1 billion go that was paid to the Gov.for the 999 year lease for BC Rail?? corporate tax breaks for the Corps. & the wealthy?? 2009 Provincial Election, budget deficet $485 million, not one penny more?? Reality $2 billion, good fiskal managers?? BC HYDRO is on life support, buying power from INDEPENDENT POWER PRODUCERS - Gengeral Electric, Ledcor and others at 4 times the price that it can be sold, we the Hyro users are paying for the infrastucture of the IPPs, we have already paid for BC Hydro's infrastructure. So why do they keep getting re-elected?? better dead than RED. Now after taking $800 million from both BC Hyrdo and ICBC, we are getting rate increases from both - BETTER DEAD THAN RED ??

Lula... I didn't say

Lula... I didn't say demonstrations don't matter, but that they're directed at the wrong targets.

Even economies based on stockmarkets, after they've ruined economies and the lives of billions of people, time after time, all over the world, are based on the junk taught in our universities as a "science"

Ed Deak.

I found it "amusing".....

....that Falcon had to wait until Flaherty announced the Harper Conservatives wouldn't achieve its "goal" before jumping on that convenient bandwagon...........

Fiat lux

Good post above, but I would have you consider that OWS is as much about propagandizing the public about the crimes going on, letting other like-minded people know that there are far more progressives around than given credit for, as it is about targeting this or that outpost of state.

That said, I absolutely agree that the economics departments of the universities are teaching Milton Friedman-styled ideas as science, and not merely model theory.

Here is a clip from 17 years ago where two capitalists go after one another, one with a conscience and lots of experience; the other a government recruit with her BS meter going off the charts. I think time will show who was correct within the context:

Sir James Goldsmith, a Captain of Industry debates GATT with Laura Tyson, President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers

I read this just two minutes ago, on topic to above

Ralph Nader on Free Trade and economic schooling

Igby.... I've been fighting

Igby.... I've been fighting and have a solid paper trail, against this "free trade " fraud since the middle of the '80s, when Mulroney forced it on us with 43% of the votes, now beaten by Harper with 39%, claiming dictatorial powers with a "majority".

It was obvious from the beginning that the whole purpose of "free trade" was and still is, grand theft and the removal of democratic decision making powers from and by the public.

Sooner, or later people will wake up, but before that the destruction of humanity and the environment, by these criminals will go in unabated. Even if they call themselves "professors" and "conservatives".

Ed Deak.

Who would want to be a minister of finance?

Seriously. They are an Endangered Species.