Hawaii 5-0

[mbarrick]

If only I could take credit for this, but alas, someone mailed it to me at work.

Frankly, however, I'm with Ryan on this one. This is just a witch-hunt by the people who are happy to blame the mess left by the last government on the poor sod stuck cleaning it up. This has jack shit to do with his job, other than the fact the guy deserves a good bender. Drunk politicians are a Canadian tradition, for crying out loud. Look at that statue of Vancouver's founder down in Gastown: what's he standing on? A beer keg. Sir John A. MacDonald himself, the "Father of Confederation" was a notorious piss-tank and there isn't a history book on the shelves that will deny the fact that his repeated boozing-up of the various Premiers who signed on to Confederation was instrumental in the creation of Canada as a nation. If hypocritical morons paying lip service to democracy were doing things like fire-bombing your wife's office in anarchistic attempts to influence your policy wouldn't you get hammered on vacation? At least he isn't an appointed Premier spending millions on scrap iron (wanna buy a slightly used fast-ferry anyone?) and making up random budget numbers, eventually leaving an impossible fiscal mess behind. If you really want moral guide-posts for political leaders how about we just do away with that separation of church and state thing and go back to tea-toatalling theoretically-celebate bible-thumpers in charge?

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[saturn13.livejournal.com]

one of the reason's we can't afford the social programs that we used to have is the major tax cut to the rich he gave when only a week into office saying that it would pay for itself. surprise it didn't. now to balance the budget, he is clawing back the cut with user fees, liscence fees, medicare premiums from those of us who can least afford it. have you had your eyestested lately? the cost of an eye exam has eaten up almost half of what why tax break was. he inheited a balanced budget (this fact supported by the auditor general) yet in his first budget came up with a 4 billion $ deficit and will not be able to balance the budget until their fourth year in gavernment. so much for the balanced budget law!

the fact remains cambell committed a criminal act! if you have committed a crimianl act you can not enter the united states. how can he represent bc's interests in negotiating a new softwood lumber pact if he can't go to washington to neegotiate? that is a fact that has not been brought up anywhere.

also if the shoe was on the other foot, he would be screaming for joy's head. he claims to be honourable and is very self-righteous. actually i think he should stay on. all of his arogance is going to help the one party that cares about the little people and not the rich corporations who paid for his election.

s13

Time and place

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

> if you have committed a crimianl act you can not enter the united states

...if it is a felony. First offence DWI is a misdimeanor. It no more prevents entering that U.S. than a speeding ticket.

The point is this does not affect his job. What you think of his policies (which I agree are too far right and as inherently flawed as those that are too far left, don't mistake me on that one) and his ability to do his job are precicely the criteria he should be judged on and the time an place to make that judgement is at the polls. B.C. has an unfortunate history of exchanging one brand of idiots for the other, producing enourmous waste and confusion. Running a business in this province is like playing a game with a toddler making up the rules as you go along. Toss federal restrictions on secondary industry on top of that, spasdic regulations from autonomous regulatory bodies with excessive authority, fickle municipal governments, American governmental and lobby-group meddling, and what-are-we-against-this-week? luddites on top of it all and it's no wonder there is no money to go around.

[dream-king.livejournal.com]

The fact remains that before the tax break there were people who were just hiding it either legally or illegally. High taxes destroy the economy. Just remember how your shopping went down once the GST came into play.

The NDP over spent and had no accountability.

The thing that I believe has saved his ass that he didn't hurt anyone, he called an immediate press conference in which he allowed questions to be asked, checked himself into rehab as well as did not commit the crime on the Taxpayers watch.

Campbell will get elected for another term at least. The one thing which we have found in BC is that the voter has a short memory, they elected the NDP three times, it was only after 2 major scandles did they come crashing down. Similar with the Socreds, and we can't forget what happened to the leader of the liberals that started their ball rolling, the honourable Gordon Wilson and his extra marrital affair with speaker of the house Tiabjy