Re: That B次元官网网址�70s political show, again (B.C. Views, Mach 30)

Tom Fletcher decides to criticize progressives for being stuck in the B次元官网网址�70s because they dare challenge the economic status quo.

I think FletcherB次元官网网址檚 views come from the B次元官网网址�80s B次元官网网址� the 1880s, the Age of Robber Barons.

B.C. citizens see right through political spin pumped out by former finance minister Colin Hansen and former premier Gordon Campbell around the HST. The B.C. Liberals decided to give a huge tax benefit to large corporations, and stuck the bill onto the backs of the working-class majority.

FletcherB次元官网网址檚 dated view on labour unions as being greedy sounds like it came out of the Cold War. Relax, Mr. Fletcher, communism is dead. Capitalism is not the worry, but unbridled corporate capitalism is. Labour unions helped create CanadaB次元官网网址檚 middle class and advocates for improved workplace safety and liveable wages.

According to Hansen, B次元官网网址淏.C.B次元官网网址檚 recession is over.B次元官网网址� The B.C. Liberals certainly are not acting as if we are in fiscal restraint.

DidnB次元官网网址檛 the MLAs and premier all get large salary increases recently? Why was $6 million in taxpayersB次元官网网址� money spent on the defense of Basi-Virk? Why will taxpayers spend $450 million on a roof for a sports stadium?

Warren Buffet, one of the worldB次元官网网址檚 wealthiest individuals, made an interesting and provocative observation recently. He said, B次元官网网址淐lass war? Yes, there is a class war ... and my side is winning.B次元官网网址�

Buffet recognizes that the economy is unbalanced, and favours the rich and corporations, and goes on to challenge governments to start taxing the wealthy fairly and end the attack on working people.

Paul Waterlander

Victoria