CaptainChatham

We can fix potholes or we can add bus routes, but we can't do both. Pick one. We can have lower taxes or expanded services, but we can't have both. Pick one. Kimmy ... Your premise is totally fallacious. Perhaps this is not surprising seeing that you are a lefty from The Left Coast where monopoly public sector unions dominate government decision making and the grossly overstaffed public sector with its abysmal productivity, unmatched job security, inflated pay and grossly inflated pensions is the leading driver of unsustainable public spending, taxes and debt increases. - In reality, the public sector's self serving waste and extravagance could easily be pared through attrition and pension reform and other productivity and public vs private sector employee equity measures so as to cut the public sector personnel costs by 50% which would mean a near 30% reduction in BC citizens' taxes. - Also in reality, substantial tax cuts would fuel an economic boom that may very well result in an increase in net revenue to the government as more people work and save and invest and pay taxes and fewer languish on the dole and gourge themselves in the public trough. - You mention needing better roads and fixing potholes in your post. This reminds me of the fact that monopoly public sector union contracts involving CUPE and some other unions require six workers to do a simple sidewalk repair job that is normally done by private contractors with three workers. It also reminds me of the time in Montreal in 2006 when city managers secretly videotaped two road repair crews of ten people during their 90 hours of paid time over a two week period. These public sector mugs, thugs and slugs were found to have actually worked a total of 7 out of 90 hours - or 7.7% - of their paid work time. - So please save me this Obama style socialist silliness about how not a dollar of public spending or of taxes or of borrowing and debt can possibly be cut without things falling apart and the only way to improve public services is by hiking taxes. - In reality, tax cuts which stimulate savings, investment and employment are positive policies and even bring in more net revenue to governments over time and the breaking of the monopoly public sector unions which have so ravaged the beleagured taxpayers especially in Quebec, BC and Ontario will also free up billions of which some can then be invested in expanded public programs and services and some (oh, the horror) actually left in the pockets of the private citizens who earned it to spend (gasp) as they see fit.

- Son ... Lets stop splitting hairs and playing silly little semantical games and cut to the chase. The following column by Larry Elder will educate you on the matter of liberal and Democratic dominance in Hollywood today and in the national communications media in general. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/10/11/the_axis_of_liberalism_marches_to_re-elect_obama_115734.html - I shall resist the temptation to pick your lefty screed apart such as where you claim that Reagan was a Republican leader of SAG when in actual fact he was a registered and professed Democrat at that time and remained so for more than a decade after he stepped down as the SAG president, etc., etc.

- WS ... Thanks for correcting the historical error which I repeated from an internet site (not this one). You are, of course, right. Similarly, I am right on the substance of my post regardless of how Dutch got his middle name. He came from a Democratic family, he was a staunch Democrat for decades, he led the Democrats dominated screen actors union at one time, he was Hollywood royalty in spite of not because he became a Republican, and over 90% of Hollyweird royalty are Democrats. Likewise, I am correct that Argo was a phony depiction of what happened in The Iran Caper and that Obama being phony Hollyweird and the Oscars are made for him and his wife. Any comments on the substance of my post?

Hardner wrote "Reagan was Hollywood royalty, as are many right-of-centres." - Reagan was Hollywood royalty not because but despite being a Republican and like most of the less than 10% of Hollywood royalty that supports the GOP he started out as an avid Democrat heading up the actors union and with his middle name Wilson given to him by his devoutly Democratic father after President Woodrow Wilson. - At least 90% of Hollyweird is staunchly Democratic and I think you actually know this but simply want to stir the pot a little bit. - In regard to Michelle on the Oscars, it was altogether fitting that the wife of a phony president who enjoys performing in public far more than he enjoys the essential executive work of governing in private should present the Oscar for a phony film that pretends to be real while treating the critical Canadian contribution to the safe accomodation and rescue of the hostages as an afterthought. People gullible enough to believe that Argo is an accurate representation of reality are gullible enough to believe the litany of lies from POTUS 44 including the latest ones that sequestration was a GOP idea that he opposed from the start and that a 2% cut pro-rated to a still increasing and bloated federal budget will usher in the apocolypse.