Ok!.... another lovely day the sun is out and the family will be barbequing today!!!
There are plenty of us here in Victoria that not only do not have the equipment to barbeque, they do not even have the food. Imagine that! In this day and age, regular folks regular working folk, and to no fault of their own cannot get enough food to defeat the tiredness of the days efforts.
Shame on Gordon Campbell…his freezer is full I'll bet and filled with heart!
Now to my riding in Oak Bay-Gordon Head,…. Where, we have suffered the cold silence of Ida Chong since 1996. Now I guess that is to be expected (Ida is a Certified General Accountant), and please understand I know that we need such people in the background counting pennies for those who do the real "social" work in our society. But hear me clearly people, they have no place involving their cold penny pinching hands in developing public policy! We in this society, and you can ask the seniors who remain and fought for this country during the war, and who now sit in cold, sterile seniors homes, if counting money is all that is needed to protect the vulnerable in our society. I have visited them. Seniors, at the hands of privatization, have been shunted off to make-do, and boring facilities that do nothing for those cold, end-of-life fears that creep into the heart as you feel that empty pain in your chest again. The loneliness, the isolation, the alienation with so much free time to contemplate the end of ones life you are literally dying for some creative diversion, and is it forthcoming? Not if it costs anything, and I kid you not, it will then be…another seniors trip to the mall! No.
We need people who have a heart and do not equate the lives around them solely from the point of view of dollar. What we need are people who care about people to make policy, and only then do we need the penny pinchers to find ways to get the wherewithal to make those life affirming improvements, for our loved and respected elders. And we as taxpayers should be ashamed of ourselves for only thinking of ourselves and our wallets without concern for the decaying society around us.
Taxes are there to helps us too when we are disadvantaged …as many of us are finding out now in this downturn in the global economy. Taxes keep the standard of living high, keep our environment secure and maintained. B.C. is decaying. Taxes are an honourable and noble involvement in the wellbeing of our local community, our society at large and the quality of our lives… and… express our self-respect.
So where is Ida Chong on this and the many other important issues that face us now …and will, when we are seniors ourselves?............
Ida's Gone AWOL!!??..........
Oak Bay News Editor, Don Descoteau, picked Ida Chong as this week's "newsmaker of the week" on Shaw TV's 'The Daily', citing her absence from every all-candidates debates thus far. In fact all Chong will involve herself in are photo-ops, or controlled sites outside this riding where she faces no questions.
It is not just her record over the last 13 years that raise so many questions, it's when Ida Chong does involve herself in our wellbeing that really gives us a frosty picture of her self-serving leanings. And we should have answers. Read this in the Times Colonist. If you think Ida Chong is working for you, get it straight she does not. Here is just a quote of a very hard to read story on betrayal….betrayal of us and our children's future enjoyment and control of our provincial resources……
"An attempt by the CRD to minimize the damage caused by the province's decision, by passing new zoning bylaws, was undone by then-community services minister Ida Chong. Chong let the bylaws languish in her office for six weeks before she signed them, allowing Western Forest Products to launch development applications for more than 300 acreage properties under the old, less restrictive bylaws".
How do these Liberals sleep at night?!
Till next time, stay calm, the kids did not really mean it and they really do love you.
Community and heart.
Prolix-a-lax
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