{"id":2644,"date":"2013-05-03T08:16:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T15:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jameswbreckenridge.ca\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2013-05-13T17:23:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T00:23:18","slug":"no-surprise-just-politics-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameswbreckenridge.ca\/?p=2644","title":{"rendered":"No Surprise, Just Politics as Usual."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Province posed an e-street Question:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat has surprised you most about the current provincial election campaign?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Devoid of ideas, ideals and desperate to avoid addressing the important issues and their painful realities, the Liberals are employing the time tested strategy employed by politicians and parties in that position \u2013 frighten the voters. BC\u2019s Liberals choosing to go with the 1990\u2019s and NDP spending as the boogeyman with which to frighten voters.<\/p>\n<p>If you can find no reasons for voters to vote FOR you, find frightening reasons to scare voters into voting AGAINST your opponents and for the lesser evil.<\/p>\n<p>Of course they still are voting for evil, lesser or not.<\/p>\n<p>Devoid of ideas, ideals and desperate to avoid addressing the important issues and their painful realities, the NDP are travelling around the province making spending promises using the imaginary extra $1.5 billion the NDP\u2019s phantasm budget raises.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, had the NDP put the welfare of citizens ahead of the welfare of the NDP there would be 1.5 billion real, not imaginary, dollars to build hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Instead political expediency and the opportunity to count coup on the Liberals had Adrian Dix and the NDP campaigning for (and convincing) voters to return the $1.5 billion HST bribe to Ottawa rather than use it to address the need for major hospital spending on St. Paul\u2019s, Royal Inland, Haida Gwaii and other projects.<\/p>\n<p>As usual the media is careful to tell British Columbians only what they want to hear; shunning the communication of any information to British Columbians they have a need to know, but don\u2019t want to know\/hear about.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018All the news you want to hear and none of the news you need to know but don\u2019t want to hear or think about.\u2019 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Focusing on the street theatre aspects of the election and, as carefully as the politicians, ignoring the true issues facing BC \u2013 the painful nitty gritty reality voters do not want to hear or think about.<\/p>\n<p>Politics as usual in BC.<\/p>\n<p>Although&#8230;&#8230;. I am hoping to be surprised on Election Day by the election of two independent MLAs to represent Abbotsford East and Abbotsford West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Province posed an e-street Question: \u201cWhat has surprised you most about the current provincial election campaign?\u201d Nothing. Devoid of ideas, ideals and desperate to avoid addressing the important issues and their painful realities, the Liberals are employing the time tested strategy employed by politicians and parties in that position \u2013 frighten the voters. BC\u2019s Liberals choosing to go with the 1990\u2019s and NDP spending as the boogeyman with which to frighten voters. If you can find no reasons for voters to vote FOR you, find frightening reasons to scare voters into voting AGAINST your opponents and for the lesser evil. Of course they still are voting for evil, lesser or not. Devoid of ideas, ideals and desperate to avoid addressing the important issues and their painful realities, the NDP are travelling around the province making spending promises using the imaginary extra $1.5 billion the NDP\u2019s phantasm budget raises. Of course, had the NDP put the welfare of citizens ahead of the welfare of the NDP there would be 1.5 billion real, not imaginary, dollars to build hospitals. Instead political expediency and the opportunity to count coup on the Liberals had Adrian Dix and the NDP campaigning for (and convincing) voters to return the $1.5 billion HST bribe to Ottawa rather than use it to address the need for major hospital spending on St. Paul\u2019s, Royal Inland, Haida Gwaii and other projects. As usual the media is careful to tell British Columbians only what they want to hear; shunning the communication of any information to British Columbians they have a need to know, but don\u2019t want to know\/hear about. \u2018All the news you want to hear and none of the news you need to know but don\u2019t want to hear or think about.\u2019 \u00a0 Focusing on the street theatre aspects of the election and, as carefully as the politicians, ignoring the true issues facing BC \u2013 the painful nitty gritty reality voters do not want to hear or think about. Politics as usual in BC. Although&#8230;&#8230;. I am hoping to be surprised on Election Day by the election of two independent MLAs to represent Abbotsford East and Abbotsford West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,62,21,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finances","category-politics-the-issues","category-provincial","category-the-economy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No Surprise, Just Politics as Usual. - James W. 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