Who's this Joel Johanssen kook you always rip-off Godz? A Canadian Ann Coulter wanna-be? I'd be a lot more receptive to this guy's ideas if he didn't use phrases like "Marxist New Democratic Party" or "neo-Communist COPE". I don't know where this blinkard idiot gets his information, but BC was doing pretty good for itself in the 90's. For most of the 90's BC was a "have" province and most of the problems that arose in the late 90's were due to external forces. A decline in prices for metals and ores and lumber all hurt the economy in ways the NDP could not prevent. Granted, the NDP was good at pissing large amounts of money unnecessarily and they rightly paid for it.
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Socialists are about as adept at running one of their much beloved governments as they are at running, say, a “traditional families values and pro-life” conference, or a “for-profit business”, or a “national defence program”.
This quote is brilliant because it shows just how big of a dipshit this guy is. H'e nothing more than some conservative hack who's been convinced into beleiving that anything that smacks of left-like thinking is automatically communist or some other form of antisocial thought (which is probably why you like this guy so much Godz). I honestly cannot comprehend how he comes up with the above analysis. Virutally every country in South America is run by some kind of socialist or left-leaning party. The same can be said for all of the Scandanavian countries. And you know what? They all are doing quite well for themselves unlike a lot of other countries with conservative governments.
It's quite obvious that this shithead doesn't know anything about BC and its ways and it shows through in how he disparages the "state-run liquor stores and state-run car insurance programs". ICBC is kept around because it provides cheaper insurance than private insurers and the gov't run liquor stores are kept because they make a ton of money for the gov't. If this turd thinks that BC was and is some sort of communist heaven, he should go to Cuba or China and take a good look at what communism really is. If he manages to make is back without having an anyuerism over the rage he feels towards communism, he'd see that BC is a pretty mainstream place (except for Nelson).