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kpollak@portal.ca (Karl Pollak) wrote:

>eds@islandnet.com (Ed Seedhouse) wrote:

>>>In fiscal 1988/89 this province under the Social Credit government recorded
>>>a SURPLUS of $666.2 million, the following year 1989/90 another surplus of
>>>$432.6 million.

>>Karl castigated the N.D.P. for (his words) "creative book keeping",
>>but he credits  the Socreds, inventors of the "B.S. fund" with total
>>honesty.  The Socreds "balanced" the budget under Vander Zalm by
>>various dishonest methods, but Karl takes their word as very truth
>>itself.  I wonder why?

>Ooopsie, my apology Ed, I should have included the source of my figures.
>You will be pleased to know that they came from the NDP 1992 Provincial
>Budget signed by the Hon. Glen Clark, Minister of Finance.  [Table I4, page
>91]

>You kinda walked into this one, didn't you, bud?  As I have told you
>before, if you insist on tossing crud all around, sooner or later some of
>it will land squarely on your face.  Bon Appetit, Ed!

We can all see where the crud is actually residing.  So the N.D.P.
quoted Socred figures in the budget?  So what?  

But in any event even if we accept the Socred figures as god's truth
that hardly gives Karl a reason for his rather ridiculous and pttty
crowing.  So the Socreds under Vander Zalm started out with a
"balanced" budget.  They ended up with really huge deficits.  So they
went downhill.  The N.D.P. inherited this mess and has turned it
around and produced the balanced books at the end of their mandate.


Ed Seedhouse
Victoria, B.C.

"Do you get that restless feeling 
 when you hear a whistle blast,
 like an echo from the past, 
 of a cold diesel rolling down 
 a road that's built to last?"

- G. Lightfoot