Horgan never had a real job
Editor: There have been a lot of negative letters to the editor lately about the awful mess the NDP left B.C. in when they binged and purged on your nickel from 1991 to 2001.
Every government has a preferred way and unique values on how they think they should govern. The NDP’s style is to appeal to the “Joe six pack,” blue-collar voter, the BC Liberals are sympathetic to the needs of business owners and centre-right conservative values.
NDP Leader John Horgan wants you to believe he’s just another hard-working, calloused hands, aching feet, sore back, living paycheque to paycheque average Joe. That’s not the case, not even close.
I’ll give Horgan credit where credit is due. He used to be a waiter at the Victoria Keg, is well educated with a Bachelor of Arts in Ontario and a Masters degree in Australia.
Upon his return to Canada in 1986 he worked as a legislative assistant in Ottawa, then came home to Victoria in 1991 and leeched off of the taxpayers as a high-level bureaucrat throughout the rest of the NDP’s orgy of economic shortcomings during the embarrassing 10 years of doom.
After the people of B.C. woke up and punted the NDP from power in 2001, Horgan, the clever termite he is, went on to form his own company of fat and well-rested bureaucrats (Idea Works) to console former government employees who lost their jobs in 2001.
Horgan never veered away from his lifestyle of service to the people, elected to the legislature in 2005. Almost $800,000 dollars in salaries and perks after nine years as a sitting MLA, he becomes the Leader of the NDP. He also worked as a director in the Crown Corporations Secretariat before going on to work at Columbia Power as director of corporate affairs. Does that meet the profile of a man of the people?
Horgan reportedly said he “has to be all things to all people. That kind of verbal blah blah makes me nervous as a taxpayer who actually is hard working, has calloused hands, aching feet, sore back and is not living paycheque to paycheque because I know how to balance my finances, unlike the NDP.
Horgan’s economics are from the playbook of the 1990s’ Glen Clark fudget budget.
Horgan is pretending to be a man of the people. He criticizes the BC Liberals for 16 years of good governance. They are not perfect, but they at least keep the economics arteries flowing with prosperity and have a sound business acumen.
Horgan has nothing to lose and everything to gain by attacking the government with his half truths and promises of new hospitals, $10 day care and $15-an-hour minimum wage.
Who’s going to pay for all that? You are, and Horgan will buy another Rolex and a box of croissants. (Just my guess.)
Horgan is hungry for his first real job. He’s counting on the media to get him in power because everybody loves it when the underdog wins. Not me, though.
Doug Rosen, Kelowna