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| Big Bird, "One of these things is not like the other" |
Les stated, "British Columbians really don't want more debt. I think at the end of the day they are going to choose the BC Liberal policies of balancing the budget, and keeping our spending under control."
He went on to say, "They (the NDP) would spend a lot more money, as government, than we have. Now it's not easy to keep your spending under control ... it's also extremely important to keep your spending under control ... that's what we've been doing."
BC Liberals say the budget over the next three years will be balanced, and yet the estimated Total Provincial Debt for 2013 / 14 will be $62,689 billion --- that will rise to $69,428 by 2015/ 16 (see official BC Fiscal and Debt Summary).
On the weekend I happened to have a chance to hear the opening remarks of Michael Campbell, from the program Money Talks. What he had to say really caught my attention.
Michael Campbell ("Money Talks" - April 6th, 2013)
"While it is our obligation to pay taxes, is there any obligation for governments to spend the money efficiently? We have a lot who don't think that's the case."
Now as I say, those words caught my attention. That's because while the BC Liberal government is forecasting a SURPLUS budget this year of $197 million dollars, we're NOT hearing a word from them about the fact our total provincial debt will be rising to $62,689 BILLION dollars!
That's keeping spending under control?
British Columbians must indeed be wondering about the so-called 'under control spending' brought up by John Les on Saturday afternoon, as well as these additional words he had to say:
"British Columbians will start to focus on options and interest in who they might support on election day. There is a clear difference you know. British Columbians will have a very clear choice ... the alternative is the NDP who have already served notice that they have no intention of balancing the budget."
In February, after the BC Liberal government released its Budget. BC Conservatives responded calling it a, 'desperate, last-gasp, election-year budget from the BC Liberals that hit British Columbians with a trifecta of bad news – tax increases, service cuts and asset sales.'
I have to agree with the following isolated segment from the words of Liberal John Les; 'There is a clear difference -- British Columbians will have a clear choice'.
YES ... there is INDEED a clear choice, and that choice is neither the NDP, or the BC Liberals.
The BC NDP, from past history, have shown they believe in big government with a healthy appetite for more taxes and bigger spending. The BC Liberals have also shown they are exactly the same. The BC Finance Ministry clearly shows one deficit budget after the other -- and a doubling of BC's debt.
BC Liberal MLA John Les has said British Columbians don't want more debt.
Money Talks host Michael Campbell asked if there is any obligation for governments to spend the money efficiently?
BC Conservative leader John Cummins has said that under the BC Liberals, our total provincial debt has nearly doubled since 2001.
Years ago Big Bird, from Sesame Street, sang a little song with lyrics that went:
One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
It would seem to me that in the case of the BC Liberal government, talk by them of balanced budgets and controlled spending, simply doesn't belong.
Let's 'stay sharp'
I'm Peter Sharp -- I'm a BC Conservative -- and I believe in BC!
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