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Re: Why are you people not outraged?

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From: Melvin Klassen
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 00:00
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:03:18, "Peter Taylor" <sector_five@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> > > We have been beaten down with $20B in new debt and the unending lies
> > > and destruction by the NDP. We are tired now but will fix the problem
> > > We the people of BC will have a reckoning with the NDP within 12 months.
> >
> > Of course, we could spend taxpayers money "now", and pay for an election,
> > "sooner", rather than "later".  Do you want to spend that money?
> >
> > > Do something now: Join and give to the Liberals. They may not be the
> > > best thing, but they are the only thing that will rid BC of the NDP disaster.
> >
> > How will the Liberals produce a "balanced" or "surplus" budget?
> >
> [snip]
> > What can they do that the current Minister of Finance cannot do?
> 
> Uh, I don't know...perhaps NOT flush a half billion dollars down the toilet
> in the Fat Ferries project, perhaps NOT flush a couple of hundred million in
> Skeena Cellulose, perhaps NOT negotiate a 0-0-2 deal with the public service
> union only to turn around and hand them hundreds of millions in perks, etc.
> etc. The financial mismanagement of the NDPee is well-documented and merely
> eliminating these wastes will produce more revenue WITHOUT raising taxes.

Stop beating the dead horse, and tell me which politicians, 
when elected, will have the leadership to pull BC out of this hole.
Tell me how they will do it.

> Do you read the newspapers or watch the news?

Yes, and yes.
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From: klassen@UVic.CA  (Melvin Klassen)
Subject: Re: Why are you people not outraged?
Date: 2000/03/29
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