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kpollak@portal.ca (Karl Pollak) wrote:

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

>>>Vaughn Plamer said dit would be in the 400-600 million range. More
>>>if you count the 250 million lost in the BPA fiasco.

>>Mr. Palmer has been disproven by the facts, which were in the
>>newspapers today if you cared to look beyond page 1 and the
>>editorials.


>Ed, the Social Services Ministry is already $34 million over its budget and
>still has 5 MONTHS to go on its fiscal year !!  And the Ministry annual
>budget alone is about $3 Billion item.

Karl can. presumably, read.  He can read the facts released by the
finance department which show that the government is on track for the 
surplus budgeted for.  

So one can only assume that he is trying to divert attention by making
claims about various ministries.  Does he really think that people
don't understand the difference between some ministries being over
budget and the entire government being over budget?  Some ministries
will come in over budget, it happens every year and is nothing new.
Other ministries will come in under budget and the final result is
that the predicted goals will be met.


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