This Week In Snookland....The Spiking Of The Dean.

DoesAnybodyEvenReadVaughnPalmer
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In the credit-where-credit-is-due department, Mr. Palmer had a spot-on column late last week on the ridiculous waste of money that is the Snooklandians' (not) jobs plan.

Here's a smidge:

...(O)ne is tempted to conclude that the most substantive product of their jobs plan to date was the $15-million-plus worth of tax dollars that were spent promoting it in the year and a half prior to the last election.

Nor does one need to look too far into the details of the jobs plan to see why it remains mostly a work in progress. Much of the discussion was around encouraging private-sector development, mostly in the resource sector, in the medium to long term.

The much-touted liquefied natural gas industry supplies the most obvious example. Some employment has already been created in planning and site preparation.

But even if one accepts the government’s optimistic scenario (and I have my doubts about it), there’ll be no final decisions to proceed with even one of the projects before the fall of this year and no major LNG production before the next election year.

The public will run out of patience with the promises long before that, one has to think...

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Thing is, by the time the Dean's bit hit the stands, as it were, nobody really cared.

For all kinds of reasons, that include the fact that, with nothing happening in the shuttered ledge, nobody else in the pro-pundit class is really paying attention because they know that anything the Dean says while school's out won't be on the exam anyway.

And then there was the matter of the Snooklandians sounding the dog whistle to alert their flying surrender monkeys that now and forever is the time to both muddy the waters and rile up the base on the Twittmachine.

And if all that wasn't enough, somebody on the inside of the fine outfit that Mr. Palmer works for made sure that the kicker of his column was dead on arrival under the following headline:

NDP navel-gazing means Liberals get a pass on fizzling B.C. Jobs Plan...

Sheesh.


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You know if the Snooklandians were actually playing real Straussian games, where winning actually meant something, I could live with that....But it seems to me that everything (and I mean everything) they do is, at its core, driven by short term political expediency...Heckfire!....I wouldn't be surprised if, in say 15 or 18 months, and especially if the market really does tank, they started blaming John Horgan for conjuring up all those stillborn LNG Sparkle Ponies rather than the elevator runner who actually magically brought them all to virtual life...
Subheader got you trying to scratch your limbic system with a claw hammer?...Well...This.

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