Didn't this same mayor already reject a twinning with a city in China? Taxpayer funded vacation. How long before we pay for another trip?

A paid politician holiday again, piss me off. Raise the taxes and user fees!

Would a vacation by any other name, smell as sweet?

Haven't we already done the "fact finding mission" three other times????? And Muckermike, I think you are right - he did reject a twinning with a city in China - too weird for me!

111 MILLION dollars in debt, just raised taxes, water/sewer and garbage and we are still spending like banshees. The home owners are hostage to these spenders who have raised our house taxes FOUR YEARS IN A ROW. No wonder the population is shrinking in PG. I sure nothing but first class on us. I am 54 years old and have never flown first class. Wonder what that is like. Wonder what it is like to have a gold star pension is like to. I cannot even get a bonus for MY HARD WORK without the government taking almost half of it. I do not know about the rest of you working stiffs but I am feeling tapped out and whenever I hear any level of government raising anything I feel sick. Federally raising UI premiums 10%! Whatever happened to the days of 1 or 2 percent? Hydro increased to the tune of 33% in three years, carbon tax increase, hst on things that never used to have pst. It just never ends. Please tell me when we are going to stop the raping of our hard earned money? I believe with all the hidden taxes and fees we are giving 60% of our money to governments. They are all still raising everything and less and less services. When are we going to say enough?

Yes china! we do have raw logs for sale!!!

Then we have the lying scum in the provincial government to fall back on, what will happen when we can no longer feed our families or pay our bills? Where will the money come from then? Our pensions, the federal government is already trying to figure a way to get at those, yep, look forward to abject poverty, and eating catfood on the street ladies and gentlemen. Or you can work until you die and pay 60% or more to the government so they can continue to figure out ways to get the rest of your money. Put your kids in political science degrees and law degrees so they can at least continue to eat in the years to come when they tax the food out of the mouths of families in their communities. Is there no such thing as an honest politician? I mean we can create a cure for cancer but we can't create an honest politician? We'd rather vote for someone to starve our children and take away our livelihood that we've worked 30 years or more for than to demand a new form of government? when do we learn? what will it take? I'm fed up.

Municca, read John Ralston Sauls book The Unconscious Civilization. It will tell you where we have been and where we are going. The elites and corporatios have taken over and its going to be a long haul for the working stiffs to get it back.

The Campbell government is a fine example of how to give our province away to the corporations that are calling the shots. And our elites at City hall are not much different
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I have Retired and everything else that our government and corporations like to chalk up as "CONSPIRACIES" and that is why I say the things that people only think. I keep posting where I can in hopes of waking up the "SHEEPLE" as the elites like to call us. We are being played and have been for years. The elitist are close to obtaining their agenda and it may already be too late. I fear that their plans to reduce the population to 500 thousand is soon to commence and once that starts it will be too late. The "sheeple" will look like deer caught in headlights.

Ah yes ... the famous world of 500,000 ... the Anglo-Saxon mission ... the elite Masons of London

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw4z-rSwNjY

Municca Who knows where it will all end? Obviously the government is not out to serve the working man. There is supposed to be 57 billion dollars in surplus in the EI fund. Now the feds want to raise the premiums 10%. This is another tax grab! EI was created to help people who were temporarily out of work not as a slush fund for government. I'm fed up too and getting crankier.

Ummm Municca...HST replaces the HIDDEN taxes.

You blast the HST then blast hidden taxes. How can you possibly be against both? PST is a cascading tax, sometimes paid up to 6 times along the production line of goods. That was hidden before, now paid just once, up front in the form of HST.

Not saying I am pro-hst....just saying you lost me by blasting both hidden taxes and HST.

As for the various rants about it being a taxpayer vacation. I suggest you guys get your heads out of the ground. PG is poised to become the most important gateway to China in North America to be developed in the last 75 years.

If Mayor and staff weren't doing everything to foster that relationship then they should resign. China is very much a customer whom requires face time. Face time costs money. Get over it.

Johnny PG, the only logs that can be sold from BC MUST be deemed to be excess to milling needs. Trust me, I used to trade logs. Fact is China is consuming massive amounts of low grade lumber (pine beetle) from BC mills. The reason? Because Russia has slapped a massive export tax on their logs. Now the mills that used to consume low cost Russian wood now consume low grade BC lumber.

"we can create a cure for cancer" - Really? When did this happen? Did I miss the big announcement?

Gus its not an AngloSaxon mission... its a zionist bankster mission run out of the 'city of London' financial district.

The Anglo Saxons haven't had any real power in almost 200 years. Most of Europe has Germanic Saxon heritage as result of the triumph of the 'barbaric' Germanic tribes that supplanted the Roman empire and brought Europe into Christendom.

Its the zionists that firmly control globalization via their control over the creation of money, the international banks, international trade, and the voting rights for the financial capital that owns the major multinationals... to say nothing of their media control and control of our legal and political party system of government. Its the zionists that have a 'choosen' 'right' to rule other lesser beings as represented by their racist ideology and twisted use of religion.

The Anglo Saxons stood for Christian belief of universalism, the rule of law, and the natural rights of man. The zionists of globalization believe in non of these things.

I notice that often when ever possible you defend zionism, and try and deflect its obvious flaws as something of the AngloSaxon culture. Its an elitist mentality thing I guess... the video you post is nothing but a quality piece of false flag propaganda... the foundations of zionism rose out of the battle of Waterloo and have ever since committed their crimes in the name of their vanquished... the AngloSaxons.

Just some historical facts on the situation.

As for the city twining I oppose that. I don't see any real value in it and we can't afford to play international politics with a city budget built on captive home taxes.

Realitysetsin... the HST is a hidden tax... its a hidden flat tax on the cost of employing people in service industries.

A tax transfer to be sure giving breaks to natural resource exporters and the consumer product trade to be paid for by the labor of a service industry. Paid for every time the working man tries to employ a person to do some work for convenience.

A hidden flat tax that is not progressive to an individual earnings, avoids the basic exemption, and avoids the notice of an employee on their paycheck by collecting it from the employer out of their value gap that they may or may not have because the hidden tax is applied on a business gross revenue and not on its available profits.

The HST is the most insidious of hidden taxes yet devised.

Maybe we can "twin" their taxes. City of Jiangmen $111 million dollars in debt? I bet not.