Burying The Campbell-Clark Government's Longterm Legacy Of Fiscal (mis)Management ...

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...How Media Manipulation 'Innoculation' Strategies Really Work

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Monday Morning Update: As an Anonomized one points out at the top of the comments, it would appear that this one might come down to a Battle Royale between two of the Generals (eg. Auditor v. Comptroller) in a winner-take-all cage-match to either turn the lights on, for real, or keep them off permanently such that the Bunker of Secrets remains cloaked in in darkness forever....Guess which General is in favour of a clean, well-lighted Octagon....

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Step One....Spray a syringe full of think-tank manufactured botulinum toxin-laced poison into the body politic's immune system:

VANCOUVER, BC—The governments of Canada’s two largest provinces, Ontario and Quebec, led by premiers Dalton McGuinty and Jean Charest, are among the worst managers of provincial finances according to a new analysis of the fiscal records of 10 Canadian premiers, released today by the Fraser Institute, Canada’s leading public policy think-tank....

{snippety doo-dah}

....Former BC premier Gordon Campbell had the best record overall, scoring 83.1 out of a possible 100. Former Newfoundland & Labrador premier Danny Williams ranked second with a score of 72.9, while Nova Scotia’s Darrell Dexter ranked third at 60.4. Saskatchewan’s Brad Wall (53.8) ranked fourth and Alberta’s Ed Stelmach (52.7) ranked fifth....

Fraser Institute Press Release

Sept 13, 2011

Step Two.... When the real thing, a thing that should raise massive immune responses of allergy, anaphylaxis and revulsion amongst the public, arrives a few weeks later.....

Auditor-General John Doyle's latest verdict on the B.C. Liberal government's bookkeeping can be reduced to a single word: "Unacceptable."

The longer version of the independent financial watchdog's "observations" on provincial financial accounting was spread over a 54-page report, released Thursday in Victoria.

Doyle cited the Liberals for a range of accounting errors, some major, some minor, some debatable, others falling under the heading of just plain wrong.

One of the latter concerns prompted him to brand the B.C. public accounts with the most damning label in the auditing lexicon - a "qualification," meaning that in one key respect, "the information is not auditable or is misleading.....

{snippety doodle-dandy}

...Doyle also elevated a growing concern about long-term contractual obligations, undertaken as part of public-private partnerships and other contracts. They currently total $80 billion, an almost three-fold increase in five years, largely because of long-term power purchases by BC Hydro...

Vaughn Palmer, Vancouver Sun

Sept 30, 2011

You can rest assured that, essentially, nothing will happen.

And a simple comparison of the Google-Cache, News Story Division, for the Auditor General's story and Potemkin Prop-Pieces for the $600 million Devil-Horned Roof atop BC Place Stadium is proof that this kind of innoculatory media manipulation strategy based on obfuscation really does work....

Here's the scorecard so far, as of Sat morning Oct 01, 2011:

Auditor General - 25

Devil-Horned Roof - 417

OK?

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It is important to be very clear here....This mismanagement does amount more than just a hill of beans in this crazy, mixed-up world where nobody could have 'predicted the recession of 2008' or what is sure to follow in the 2nd dip....Much more.....In fact, I would suggest this is a Mount Everest of Mismanagement, piled high with malice aforethought...Just go back and read the last sentence of Mr. Palmer's finest-of-the-fine, after-the-fact reportage.....Did you get that....$80 freaking BILLION...That is at least 30X more than the bogus HST unwinding costs that Kevin Falcon, who of course is one of Potemkin's finest financial (mis)managers, has been running around telling anyone who will listen will require us to kill all kinds of spending programs willy-nilly....

Why do I say 'after-the-fact' with respect to the Dean's reportage from yesterday?....Well....While I applaud the Auditor-General for telling it like it is, those big numbers, give or take 10 or 20 billion either way, have been there for all to see for a long time now if they have been paying attention....And we know Mr. Palmer has been paying attention.....So...Given all that....Why didn't he, Mr. Palmer, who has the power to do it single-handedly, just knock the syringe right out of the think-tank's hand two weeks ago before it could wreak its havoc?...Important question to ponder, don't you think?...

Wondering about the wordsmithing in the sub-header?.....All will soon be revealed...Raw logs will be part of the story....

Lastly....I have no idea what the new Corp Name is for the Devil Horns that we paid for...I have refused to read, listen or watch..

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