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"...De Jong was finance minister in the last B.C. Liberal government. He has taken some heat within his own party for leaving behind a sizable budget surplus for the New Democrats to spend.
He makes no apologies: “The biggest criticism I seem to get is that I was too stingy or too careful with public dollars. I’ll take that criticism because when COVID did hit, B.C. was in better shape with its finances than any other province in the country.”...
Yesterday, we commented on the above passage, which is from a recent Vaughn Palmer column. Specifically, we noted that Mr. de Jong largely built his surplus by imposing a hidden, regressive tax in the form of significant monthly MSP payments.
But that doesn't mean that the good Mr. de Jong wasn't also stingy when doling out those regressively obtained public dollars.
It's just that sometimes Cookie Dough Mike was downright mean and disingenuous when doing so, especially when the affected were those who need our help most.
...“They’re exercising a new-found freedom and choice that heretofore didn’t exist,” de Jong said. “So that was the whole purpose of the exercise: to give people choice.”...
Heretofore 'choice', indeed.
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5 comments:
I hope that warm little corner in He double hockey sticks still has room when some of these fake libs pass on.
I can’t think of a better place for guys like doughy mike and the clukster, scambell, et al, to spend eternity.
The United Conservative Social Credit party is as disingenuous as it's name changes!
Should Mr Falcon visit a pig farm he would run out of lipstick!
TB.
Make that the United Liberal Social Credit party!
TB
yup!
Keep changing the name to try to protect the guilty!
Poopheads!
Yes, the socreds, b.c. lieberals, whatever always has a line for everything. The first I remember was Grace McCarthy when she decided that Dec. welfare checks would no longer be mailed out prior to Christmas but on the same date as other cheques. When questioned about this move, her response was, if the cheques were mailed earlier people would just use them for Christmas. One of my friends was "not amuzed" and for years she referred to Grace McCarthy as "that wicked woman".
Its not about the money, its about how they look as "money managers". being tough enough to make hard decisions, etc. and all that b.s.
The Socred, B.C. Lieberals, B.C. United don't care about people who aren't well to do. They consider it, their problem, not the government's.
I've been watching this since I was about 9 and am now 74. There has been a lot of misery the right wingers have brought to those who didn't have much money or food or shelter.
Lets not forget mini wac. He decided people were going to the ER for things they ought not to so he implemented a $10 fee if you went to the E.R. Fortunately the federal government told them, that wasn't only not nice but against the law and with held major dollars until they reversed their position and cash grab. At the time, there were lots of people who didn't have $10 to go to the ER and for those who $10 and more, it didn't matter. that certainly wasn't going to stop them. It was a penalty for being poor and making life more difficult for those who had little to no money.
If the two oilys were to ever be elected to a position that gave them any power, expect more of the same and worse. I wish both of them a good case of gout. It won't kill them, but it may cause them some pain, just like they caused some people in this province.
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