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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 Wed, 29 Mar 2000 06:21:36, karl@dontspam.org (Karl Pollak) wrote:

> >How will the Liberals produce a "balanced" or "surplus" budget?
> Could I ask you to state the source of your information? 
> Where did you get it?

From: http://www.bcliberals.bc.ca/new-era/#newprosperity

| Pass Balanced Budget legislation within our first 90 days 
| that will outlaw deficits and make balanced budgets 
| mandatory by our third full budget. 

Will their _FIRST_ full budget be balanced? If not, then why not?
If true, then how, given the "hole" into which BC has fallen?

> >2. Reduce spending on non-essentials like nurses and school-teachers.
> >So what if your ailing grandparents cannot live at home, 
> >with the support of home-care nurses, and have to be institutionalized?

> Are the nurses and teachers the only people who work in health and education?

Obviously not.  What other employees in those areas will the Liberals
"de-employ", in order to meet their stated goal:

| Cut the costs of government by increasing efficiencies, 

> >So what if your children have 40 or 50 other students in their 
> >classroom, and get a poorer education?
> Phallacy. 

Curous combination of "phallic" wiith "fallacy".  Intentional?
 
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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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