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   From: Çons@minority#s   
      
   August 1, 2012   
      
   Conservative politics hasn't worked so far   
      
   Does everyone recall that B.C. had the Social Credit, Conservative and Liberal   
   parties   
   coalesce during the 1970s and 1980s, then were elected?   
      
   You might remember that those years were the worst years on record for B.C.   
   They too were   
   recession years but they were not handled very well, leaving the province in   
   economic ruin   
   with a huge deficit that exists to this day.   
      
   Yet people still insist it was the NDP that was responsible for that economic   
   ruin and now   
   the entire 1990s recession across Canada, go figure. In all fairness I believe   
   the NDP did   
   a relatively good job getting through the 1990s recession compared to the   
   other so-called   
   free enterprise conservative parties in Canada (I find little difference   
   between Liberals   
   and Conservatives), Considering they paid off some of the debt, left a   
   balanced budget   
   plus a $1.5 billion surplus and did create over four thousand jobs and more.   
      
   Compare that to this Liberal coalition party's record of going through the   
   good times and   
   leaving the province in the economic and environmental ruin it is in today. It   
   reminds me   
   of another Conservative Party of Grant Devine's in Saskatchewan who succeeded   
   in   
   bankrupting that government.   
      
   If we give this government another chance I feel this province will wind up   
   the same way.   
   It is unbelievable that this government, after costing thousands of people   
   their good   
   paying jobs, then with their privatization schemes and other scandals plus a   
   huge deficit   
   that they ever got re-elected.   
      
   Now they are in such bad shape they had to tax us with the HST, raise other   
   taxes, then   
   sell the Liquor warehouses to out of province people no doubt. Now that should   
   be good for   
   Alberta's economy and employment. Has everyone noticed that booze costs $2 to   
   $6 more in   
   the private booze stores than the government ones? Who does that save millions   
   for?   
      
   When we see some Liberals jumping ship or joining the crew it looks like they   
   might change   
   their names back to their former party or to The B.C. Dogwood Party, or just   
   coalesce   
   again. No matter, they will all have to follow the platform and the party line   
   regardless.   
   That will likely be sell, sell, sell, and privatize, privatize, privatize.   
      
   Our premier said creating employment and managing the economy are her   
   priorities, on that   
   subject I find that her party moves rapidly forward - in reverse. However, I   
   believe it is   
   commodities that drive the economy, not politics as some would have us believe.   
      
   Furthermore, the pundits are saying another world recession is coming in the   
   spring of   
   2013 if not earlier. I don't envy any party having to follow the B.C. Liberal   
   coalition   
   types.  Remember, it is a Conservative Party in control of Canada's largest   
   debt and they,   
   too, are busy selling off the "peanut stand."   
      
   Don't forget, "Tory years are tough years."   
      
   R. Y.   
      
   Kamloops   
      
      
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