Campaign Day 27....Fifty-Five Billion And Counting....

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Awhile back I was doing some heavy lifting with a couple of regulars down in the forge (ie. the comment threads, where the newly acquired raw material is hammered into shape) and we got to talking about how much Gordon Campbell has cost us so far.

I went out on a limb and suggested that $50 billion might not be unreasonable, thinking that I should go back and add it all up so that I could write a reasonably informed post on the matter.

Of course, as so often happens with these things, I promptly forgot all about it and never got down to brass tacks to do the reserarch.

Anyway.....

Late last night, I was combing the blogroll looking for new raw material to hammer into shape when I ran across the following:

".......the NDP could still win the election......

..... The B.C. Rail debt time bomb, the Liberals' $55 billion worth of contracts, the continuing drive to bring in the controversial recognition act, the behind the scenes preparations to cut spending...."


Which is just plain crazy talk, no?

I mean, it was probably written by some crazed socialist hiding out in the bowels of the BC Fed while sucking on red lollipops wrapped in old 'Barrett-Or-Bust' leaflets, right?

Wrong.

Those words were posted up by none other than the Dean himself.

Vaughn Palmer.

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The real question, of course, is....If we get four more years of Mr. Campbell, what will the number be in 2013 - $75 Billion?......$90 Billion?.....How about a cool $100 Billion....To put that in perspective, that would be $25,000 for every man, woman and child in British Columbia....Or, put another way....If you are a family of four you could end up paying $100,000 for contracts, many of them to out of province corporations, hedge funds and/or shareholders for no good reason at all.....How's that for 'good management'?

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