Vote for whom?

Are we about to put the foxes back in charge of the chicken coop? Polling indications by Corporate Research Associates suggest that the voters may want to throw the Liberals aside to let the Progressive Conservative party feast once again on what is left of the Newfoundland and Labrador treasury.

How quickly we forget, or have entirely forgotten, that it was the Progressive Conservative party that blew away $12 billion and counting on Muskrat Falls, leaving a small population of tax payers to pay off their stupidity for at least the next two generations.

For those who have forgotten, your monthly heat and light payments will double in less than two years.

What will that mean for the hundreds, if not thousands of families, seniors and working poor who are having a difficult struggle today to be saddled with more debt when Muskrat Falls comes on stream. Food banks, churches, and other resources are everywhere in the province to support those who need help. And yet, it is not enough.

More and more families are turning up requesting help for themselves and their children. Where will that be in two years’ time?

There is absolutely no doubt that creating jobs in this province is extremely important and extremely costly. How do we create jobs, balance our heavy debt load and be fair to a limited number of taxpayers who support endless projects of government? Will the province of Newfoundland and Labrador become a province where only those who are financially fit will survive as our debt load continues to increase.

Are we ready for these potential economic outcomes? Do you really want to vote Progressive Conservative in the next election?

On the other hand, the Liberals have done little to impress themselves upon its one-time adoring public. Adoring may be stretching it somewhat.

Everything has been high with the Liberals. High unemployment, high taxes, hightail it out of town for alleged emotional and abusive assaults among its elected members.

Those on the side of “we won’t stand for it anymore” believe it’s high time the Liberals were kicked to the ditches until they regain their senses, perspective and proper decorum when speaking and working with each other.

Who would have thought in these times that such was going on — in the cabinet no less, with our major decision makers, trusted representatives of the house and the people, glaring, snaring and using intimidation tactics that would rival the mafia. It’s enough to turn anyone against politics.

Well, half the people anyway. The other half won’t vote and could care less what government does or doesn’t do, which, of course, is why governments do what they do and get away with it. Not enough of the population to keep politicians in-check when needed most, which is just about every week in this province.

Where is the Liberal government with its strategies to lower, significantly decrease, or eliminate altogether the impending absurd cost of electricity rates?

There is lots of Liberal talk, committees, but no action and no plan. Nothing. The Liberals haven’t come up with one single idea to share with the public on how they’re going to prevent extreme financial difficulties for thousands in this province in less than two years’ time. Do you really want to vote Liberal in the next election?

And yes, there is another party that could, though highly unlikely, win the next election.

Any party that refers to itself as the Third party deserves what it gets in the end: third place. They may as well call themselves the “Thought After” party or “We’re the Other party in the race and we’re not doing so good” party Do you really want to vote for the Third Party in the next election?

Let’s toast and raise a glass of murky, hard-to-swallow Muskrat Falls water to the Progressive Conservative party, the Liberal party and the New Democratic Party for bringing this wonderful province to the edge of bankruptcy.

They all had a hand, mouth and foot in it. Are we ready for another significant exit of our population? It may come sooner than we think.