Lik

With his political career clearly in the toilets, does Gordo really think British Columbians will forgive him and the Liberals over the HST fiasco? Even when he tries to buy their loyalty back by lowering personal income tax, I honestly don't think that'll be enough. As a matter of fact, people will just view the measure as exactly what it is -- a blatant measure for Gordo to try buying the voters' loyalty back, and voters will just take the cash and still vote the Liberals out without even thanking them.

-Lik

Lik

The Liberals are not the golden boys that a lot of you seem to believe here.

Yes, it is true that they managed the economy relatively well. However, this is done at the cost to a LOT of cuts in various social services. The general neglect on foster child care for the last, what, 10+ years, has came up in the headlines time and again. Healthcare spendings have not been up to par. Funding to education has not been keeping up to the demands -- do you remember from a couple of days ago when schools were gonna be closed down, and parents were out protesting? But in the mean time, Gordo has quietly given himself at least a 40% salary increase, and I actually seem to think that in his 12 years in office, he has given himself and the MLAs at least 2 hefty pay increases that were way above inflation, if not more. Now ask yourself this -- for the same job, when was the last time when you had a 40% increase in salary? You'd be happy if you could even get a 2% pay increase la!

In a healthy society and political climate, what we need is balance. Had the Liberals been able to maintain that over their 12 year reign, I wouldn't mind voting them in again. But to me, at least, while they've done an ok job -- perhaps even a good job -- at managing the economy, they've let things tipped too far off in one direction of the scale. And then on top of that, there is their arragoance issue because they've been in office for too long, and think that they can just shove anything they want down our throats.

So for these reasons, I am prepared to vote the Liberals out. My decision is certainly not set in stone yet, but at this point in time, that's what I am thinking.

-Lik

Lik

All we are asking here is, did Lib do better? or did NDP do better? Do you really think NDP will do better than the Libs if you give them a chance? I think letting NDP come to power is too much of a gamble that the province cannot afford to lose.
BiscottiGelato 發表於 2010-10-28 12:46

You are entirely correct, and this is what we are debating here. And in a democratic society, we all make our own decisions and agree to go alone with the majority at the end of the day. And that is what democracy is all about.

-Lik