you forgot giving themselves large pay increases while cutting injuried workers by 10%

These editorials sound like paid advertisements for the NDP. Are they?

I seldom agree with Rafe b ut he's right on this one. The Lieberals have to go eve4n if I did vote for them. Unfortunately we don't have an alternative.

"These editorials sound like paid advertisements for the NDP. Are they?"

It's not an editorial, it's just on man's opinion, and it sounds hysterical and irrational to me.

Rafe Mair should look up the definition of the word dictator or talk to people who have lived in a real dictatorship under a real dictator.

He can give me a phone call and I will gladly enlighten him with some free reality therapy!

It is absurd to call a democratically leader of a democratically elected government a dictator just because one disagrees with policies and actions!

If I was as upset as Mr. Mair I would have started a democratically legal recall campaign a long time ago - something that is impossible in a real dictatorship and if tried would land the person in jail or in front of a firing squad!

It's not an editorial, it's just on man's opinion, and it sounds hysterical and irrational to me.

You sure do love Gordo, dont you diplomat. No Gordo may not be a dictator in a true sence of the word but its gettint to the end of his mandate and he has to show his freinds what he can do for them.

There is nothing hysterical about the facts that Rafe has given us. Its just another cash grab for our captilists. Funny tho how they use tax dollars and the tax payer to further their own needs.Its not global warming that will destroy our planet its greed and it looks like its just around the corner.Its time to wake up and smell the coffee.

Cheers

Bridge, I don't love any politician, including Gordon Campbell, but I surely would love to see people go out and vote (voter turnout is terrible) and change the things they don't like democratically by actually voting and/or recall.

I don't agree with Rafe that we are living in a "Campbell dictatorship."

Good luck with the only other alternative to the Liberals!

I don't think Rafe is irrational. I think he is using hyperbole to make a point and it isn't coming across correctly.

His hangup has been identified on several ocassions, it is to do with depleted salmon runs, river-run electricity generation and environmental damage from provincial government policies.

Diplomant I have to agree with you on the voter turnout. forty seven percent turnout for the last civic election. Th curent turnout for the federal election was about 59 % so thats not to bad. I dont recall what the turn our was for the last Provincial election . But like you tell us it could of been low..

For the last few years or since I have retired i have always taken on interest in our elections and have donated many hours of my time.. I have to support the NDP since they are an alternative to true gritz liberals that we dont have in our Province. Campbell is about as far right as you can get.

So I will have to stick with the alternative as you tell us. However I must qualify this statement since I am actualy considering voting for Gordo as I would hate to see the NDP being saddled with the mess that Gordo is going to leave after the next election in May 2009.

The fast ferry thing will look like a cake walk.

Cheers

A little public mea culpa would go a long ways to restore the credibility of those who blew it, no matter what the political persuasion.

However, the *politically correct* way to handle these things is to ALWAYS deny responsibility for failures and take full credit for successes, even if one had nothing to do with making them happen.

Then, of course, there are circumstances which are beyond the control of mere mortals (politicians belong to that category of mankind as well, even though they are loathe to admit it!) like the financial meltdown that is occurring globally as we speak.

I am sure it will affect a lot of things, even those which were planned and done wisely.

Perhaps you are right and it would be an excellent idea to hand over the ruling of the province over to the NDP, which as we all know has a sterling record and a better way to do anything and everything.

It would be very interesting and entertaining, to say the least!

Zoopdingle,

You are aware, are you not, that when he had a party affiliation, Rafe Mair was a Socred? He has leftish positions on some topics, such as the environment, but overall is known as a conservative. He's hardly a booster for the NDP.

Obviously we need a stoic citizens party of the middle class majority. Time will tell.

The liberals are nothing more than agents of the corporate profit takers both domestic and foreign. That is their genus of being and any ploy to get middle class votes from citizens needed to give them authority is nothing more then a short term buy off to attain power for their real constituents (corpocracy) and the corpocracies subsidized profits from the opportunities of real free enterprise citizens.

The ndp are nothing more than a party of wealth redistribution and government employees. Redistribution to attain political relevance to a portion of society that relies on that and government employees being the genus of their agenda.

Problem is most of the alternatives are all hidden agenda projects that offer no real hope as a third party. I have an option, but I wish someone else would do it instead. Time will tell.

Diplomat wrote:- "Then, of course, there are circumstances which are beyond the control of mere mortals (politicians belong to that category of mankind as well, even though they are loathe to admit it!) like the financial meltdown that is occurring globally as we speak."

The "financial meltdown" is the work of God? Now I've heard everything!!! No bloody wonder we're stuck with the likes of Gordon Campbell and his motley crew of global groupies with that kind of thinking.

I suppose the next thing will be for somebody to suggest that 'money' is governed by the Laws of Nature, like gravity, for instance, and is 'unchangeable' by the hand of man.

Interesting that we have those amongst us who think the imposition of a carbon tax in BC can change the world's climate, something actually governed by natural forces beyond our control.

Yet when it comes to taking control over a 'money' system that is entirely a human construct, and governed entirely by 'man-made' law, they throw up their hands as if that's completely beyond them.

It has to be done at a "higher level" they say. How "high" a "level"? Nationally? Internationally? By having an International Conference on it perhaps? Well, we all know just how many of the world's problems have ever actually been solved by having one of those, don't we?

Campbell is a gutless wimp and admitted as much in the lead up to his 10 point 'plan' when he said that "we" as a mere "Province" couldn't do much.

Well, he's wrong. We COULD do plenty. But not with the holder of a MBA degree as Premier who doesn't even understand the difference between 'inflation' and 'prosperity'. (If it's any consolation neither does Ms. James, who'd try to deficit spend us into prosperity and succeed only in raising the prices of everything we need to live doing that the way she's outlined tonight.)

They are both WRONG in their approach to the whole situation. Though Ms. James, if she could be convinced to deficit spend in a way that would LOWER consumer prices rather than raise them, might offer some hope of actually doing something useful. Of Campbell, he's hopeless. Always was, always will be.

Eagle, with your oft repeated closing comment, "Time will tell", I hope you're referring to 'time' as in days, months, years etc. "Time", the magazine, will never tell!