Stop the "Best Place on Earth", I want to get off

This page is sick and tired of the bizarre alternate mirror evil universe that the BC Liberals have created in British Columbia, and quite frankly, it may not be long before I set out to find my way back to a life based on truth and justice rather than the greedy musings of a fascist elite. Yesterday's Provincial budget is a solid illustration of just how far the rabbit hole we've gone down since Gordon Campbell's bloodless propaganda coup of 2001.

Only in British Columbia can a budget anchored to further tax cuts for the rich be considered "holistic", when in reality, lower income groups will see their tax cuts erased by increases to BC Hydro rates and ICBC premiums. Only in British Columbia is a $50 a month increase to welfare rates "significant". It's significant for slum landlords who will now in turn raise rents by that amount and more. Taylor hinted that there would be money for the homeless in yesterday's budget, and guess what? She delivered on a funding formula to create more homeless people in BC.

The budget's housing package has only one real objective: to perpetuate Greater Vancouver's highly flammable and increasingly toxic real estate market. Taylor put just enough money on the table for the brainwashed to keep believing that the 300 sq. ft. box in Yaletown of their dreams is just out of reach. This is a government that has tried their absolute hardest to kill industries like forest products, shipbuilding, and the wild salmon fishery, but when it comes to keeping the real estate carpetbaggers who bankroll the BC Liberals happy, this government spares no expense.

As for any follow-through from the greenwashing rhetoric of the Speech From the Throne, it amounted to sweet organic recycled f*ck all. I guess we're left with the sophisticated high-tech monitoring of traffic shoving itself through the Gateway Project that the Liberals honestly think is a solution, so we'll know exactly how much we're being poisoned.

In her remarks yesterday, Taylor claimed that she wanted to "reward hard-working families who play the rules". Of course, it helps when Liberals keep changing the rules when it comes to things like drunk driving and insider trading. The Finance Minister also claimed that the booming economy will attract more people to BC, so that British Columbians can soon enjoy the same lack of basic infrastructure and public health care that our Alberta neighbours do

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Taylor concluded with the Liberals' embarrassing rallying cry (which if they ever put on license plates will cause a rash of out-of-province car "accidents") of "this is the Best Place on Earth". British Columbia is not "The Best Place on Earth"(tm). However, thanks to work of Carole Taylor, Gordon Campbell, and the Liberals, BC is in the running for the title of "Most Corrupt, Dishonest, Brutal and Selfish Place on Earth".