BC General Election May 14, 2013 - Advance Voting Wed May 8 to Sat May 11 - See Post #433

[Gross-Misconduct]

Thir Is the most frustrating BC election I can remember. I can't stand the ndp and will never vote ndp as long as I live. I have voted liberal , but I also can't stand Christy Clarke.

[lowest common denominator]

^^ Typical ndp fear mongering rhetoric.

If you want a future where parents can't find enough work to pay the bills and feed the family, vote NDP!

NDP for a welfare state!

NDP- Flying by the seat of their pants since inception!

NDP- Hey, standards are down everywhere so why not?!?!

NDP- We just don't have any shame

NDP- Because in our world, money grows on trees!

NDP - NFG

[inane]

^^ Typical ndp fear mongering rhetoric.

If you want a future where parents can't find enough work to pay the bills and feed the family, vote NDP!

NDP for a welfare state!

NDP- Flying by the seat of their pants since inception!

NDP- Hey, standards are down everywhere so why not?!?!

NDP- We just don't have any shame

NDP- Because in our world, money grows on trees!

NDP - NFG

[Gross-Misconduct]

^^ Typical ndp fear mongering rhetoric.

If you want a future where parents can't find enough work to pay the bills and feed the family, vote NDP!

NDP for a welfare state!

NDP- Flying by the seat of their pants since inception!

NDP- Hey, standards are down everywhere so why not?!?!

NDP- We just don't have any shame

NDP- Because in our world, money grows on trees!

NDP - NFG

[lowest common denominator]

Posing with retarded kids doesn't make a good photo op for Christy Clark

[Harbinger]

Will there be anyone who is sad if the Liberal party is turfed? It sure doesn't look like it.

[lowest common denominator]

Fear mongering? Pot meet kettle

I just stated the facts. If you can't handle the truth that's not my problem.

I said big corporations bankroll the Liberals. Look up where the party's donations come from and tell me it's not true.

I said BC has the highest child poverty in Canada under the Liberals. I believe it's now 2nd worse but look it up and correct me. Show me the child poverty rates across Canada for the last 10 years and tell me I'm wrong.

I said families with disabilities are low on the BC Liberal's concern list. Am I wrong?

You know why the BC Liberals don't care about children with disabilities?

1- Kids can't vote

2- Kid's can't contribute to the BC Liberal party

3- Posing with retarded kids doesn't make a good photo op for Christy Clark

[Wetcoaster]

Will there be anyone who is sad if the Liberal party is turfed? It sure doesn't look like it.

[Harbinger]

Not sure I really care about Harper feelings.

[Wetcoaster]

Not sure I really care about Harper feelings.

[Harbinger]

Not high on my list but the BC economy certainly is and that is the major concern. As are federal provincial financial arrangements.

The last time the BC ( the BC NDP under Glen Clark) went toe to toe with the feds (the Liberals under Chretien) the money for projects and infrastructure ceased to flow into BC from Ottawa.

[Wetcoaster]

A lot of ifs here in my statement. IF NDP were to win and IF Harper wants to keep a majority government in the fed. His best bet is not to try and alienate a whole province in the west. Turn off the spigot and see how that makes the voters here vote. People can see through those kinds of things.

[Harbinger]

It would be the BC NDP doing the alienating and they have done it in the past with disastrous results.

[Wetcoaster]

Do you think the people of BC care what Harper thinks of the NDP or do you think they will care about how the citizens are treated. People saw through the HST they would see through any other federal scam they tried to pull.

[inane]

From the fluff piece of Christy Clark in the Vancouver Sun

“Let’s see you go through this red light,” Hamish challenged as they pulled up that morning, at 5:15 a.m., to an abandoned Vancouver intersection.

“I might. Don’t test me,” Clark replies.

“Yeah. Go ahead.”

“Should I?”

“There’s no one.”

“Would you go through? You shouldn’t because that would be breaking the law,” she says.

And with that the car has already sailed underneath the stale red stoplight and through the empty intersection.

“You always do that,” says Hamish.

http://www.vancouver...l#ixzz2RgQ1jb3h

And some of the follow up

http://www.straight...._medium=twitter

http://ca.news.yahoo...-201459758.html

Running a red light with your child and a reporter in the car, and seemingly doing so repeatedly. Yeah....seeing as some people on this forum were all over the mayor of Vancouver for running a stop sign on a bike, I can't wait to see what they say about the Premier of the Province running red lights with children in their car.

[DonLever]

You obviously did not grasp the major issues raised in the article. It is all about the BC NDP being opposed to resource extraction and processing. That is where the jobs are and the jobs that spin-off from that.

But what's more of a problem is a seeming lack of appreciation on the NDP's part that B.C. happens to have a resource-based economy. It's highly dependent on its natural resources for jobs as well as government revenues.

The simple truth is, we don't export a whole lot of solar panels or bean sprouts. And how many baristas and wilderness guides can B.C. employ? Yoga supply outlets provide only so much government revenue.

Indeed, people often complain about B.C. becoming a la-la land where only older people and the wealthy can afford to live, investing in real estate, or retiring.

There's truth in that. Why else would Calgary, a much smaller city than Vancouver, have so many more head offices?

Now, if we shut down toxin-spewing industries in B.C., as many environmentalists and aboriginals would like, our air and water indeed would be fresher and tourism revenues higher. And who wouldn't like that?

The trouble is, we'd have more difficulty sustaining the 4.4 million folks living here, and the social services they're hooked on. We'd have an all-green economy but government ledgers bleeding red.

A balance surely is required. As the world transitions gradually to a greener economy, B.C. will transition along with it. But no one should expect that to happen all in one governing term.

Of course, if the NDP does get elected next month and there are fewer industrial jobs in B.C., the poor suckers among us who need to keep working for a living can always purchase parkas and move to Alberta.

[Harbinger]

That is the NDP's Achilles Heel. The opposition to the Kinders Morgan Pipeline was the most ridiculous decision. The pipeline is already there. To reject it outright will cost the BC economy millions of dollars.

Saying no to mines, no to pipelines, no to everything. Where will the money to all the social programs the NDP want come from? Selling BC Place may bring $100 million if we are lucky but we need billions of dollars.

Construction of the pipelines will bring thousands of highly paid unionized jobs. Where are the Union voices? Where is Jim Sinclair? Industrial jobs is where the money come from. Not from McJobs.

The Liberals have been very weak on this issue. They should press the NDP on where the money will come from.

Unless the next government address this issue, whoever forms the government, BC is in a lot of trouble. It will have a huge fiscal deficit.

[Lockout Casualty]

From the fluff piece of Christy Clark in the Vancouver Sun

“Let’s see you go through this red light,” Hamish challenged as they pulled up that morning, at 5:15 a.m., to an abandoned Vancouver intersection.

“I might. Don’t test me,” Clark replies.

“Yeah. Go ahead.”

“Should I?”

“There’s no one.”

“Would you go through? You shouldn’t because that would be breaking the law,” she says.

And with that the car has already sailed underneath the stale red stoplight and through the empty intersection.

“You always do that,” says Hamish.

http://www.vancouver...l#ixzz2RgQ1jb3h

And some of the follow up

http://www.straight...._medium=twitter

http://ca.news.yahoo...-201459758.html

Running a red light with your child and a reporter in the car, and seemingly doing so repeatedly. Yeah....seeing as some people on this forum were all over the mayor of Vancouver for running a stop sign on a bike, I can't wait to see what they say about the Premier of the Province running red lights with children in their car.

[lowest common denominator]

A lot of ifs here in my statement. IF NDP were to win and IF Harper wants to keep a majority government in the fed. His best bet is not to try and alienate a whole province in the west. Turn off the spigot and see how that makes the voters here vote. People can see through those kinds of things.

[Harbinger]

The feds don't give a damn about the west or the voters out here. The federal election is over before they even start counting the ballots in BC!! All that matters to the Feds is Ontario and Quebec and making sure the cash cows out west keep on getting milked.