THE NB GRIST MILL
November 21, 2011
A New Brunswick Political Newsletter
Are Alward and Higgs Doing Nothing More Than Creating Goblins To Shiver At?
HOW CAN NEW BRUNSWICKERS ROOT FOR THIS?
If you create goblins to shiver at, it helps you rationalize your own bad deeds.
Where is their vision? Will they tell us? What is there going to be after three more years of this Alward-Higgs government, more of this? Is this it? Is this as good as it gets? Where are we going as New Brunswickers? Where are they leading us?
Anyone with a high school diploma could do what Alward and Higgs are doing right now. Slash and Burn doesnt take a lot of vision. These people are overseeing a complete slashing of the New Brunswick public and the people are growing very tired of it, very quickly. It’s beginning to look like a real hit-and-run by Alward-Higgs and Company.
However, Paul Robichaud, the deputy premier of Northern New Brunswick is over-seeing a $250 Million spending splurge. We just hope some “oversight” is in place to watch closely where our hard earned $250 Million will be spent. A lot of that $250 Million will probably be just wasted in today’s slow-growth world. Albeit, anytime you dump $250 Million into a relatively miniscule economy like Northern NB, there will be an initial bump. But there are no long-term markets out there for the foreseeable future. Global demand is more than likely gong to be severley depressed for several years. By the time the world economy comes back, any production of goods or services that are being dreamed about by the $250 Million Northern New Brunswick Entrepreneurs will be obsolete (high-tech or otherwise). So to us it just looks like a $250 Million short-term entrepreneurial welfare kind of scheme. It would be a shame to see alot of empty ware-house type buildings with useless plant and equipment littering the northern country side in a couple of years or so. We don’t begrudge anybody fortunate enough to benefit from it, but overall it looks like a really questionable program.
But at the very least Alward and Higgs should be more revealing about this relatively significant $250 million investment. But as it stands now, they announced it on a week-end and then all the chatter surrounding it has been about the CUTS. There must be more scrutiny of this $250 Million of our hard-earned tax dollars by the New Brunswick Media Community. Even more so, when you consider that the general public is under-going such savage cuts that are impacting their standard of living. Iincidentally, Higgs has been referring to this cut in our standard of living as a life-style change. What?
But a Cut Regime never wins. By putting all their focus on Cutting it belies their lack of creativity and ideas for the future. Any new manager can go in to a new office job and fire all the help. But what do they do after the dust has settled? Hatchet men are a dispensable lot. They do dirty jobs and then they are pushed aside.
What are they trying to do in this government? There is nothing to root for. They are just getting started in a Slash and Burn Program that is literally down-grading our standard of living in this province. But what happened to the promises that so liberally rolled out of David Alward at campaign time? There is nothing positive about the Alward Government. How can New Brunswickers root for that? New Brunswickers thought they were told they would be getting something different this time.
But where is their vision? Will they tell us? What is there going to be after three more years of this Alward-Higgs government, more of this? Is this it? Is this as good as it gets? Where are we going as New Brunswickers? Where are they leading us?
Life-style change? Is that going to be their claim to fame? Will there be no more rural life in New Brunswick after Alward and Higgs get done with us? Is that the life-style that Higgs is referring to when he talks about change? That isn’t vision, that is hocus-pocus lingo.
That is the message of people who have no vision of the future. They are governing by creating goblins to shiver at, so that they can feel better about carrying out their slash and burn objective. They have no ideas of how to build a sustainable future for New Brunswick they are just cutting. So what happens after that? Can Alward and Higgs tell us?
What do they see for New Brunswick in a “Post-Alward-CUT-Government” world? What are they trying to do in this government? Cutting public services is not a vision? It’s a cop-out.
Do they not understand that you don’t build public confidence and cooperation this way. You do just the opposite. You build walls of distrust.
We are hearing stories that you would not believe about this Alward-Higgs Regime. And if we are hearing them out here in the New Brunswick hinter land, then they have got to be running rampant around the water-coolers. We hear the atmosphere is irreversibly tainted. The way Alward and Higgs are doing this hit job has everybody looking over their shoulders. It has folks turning on each other out of fear that they might be the next to lose their job.
Way to go Alward-Higgs. You’ve succeeded with one thing at least. You make a couple of really good boogy-men. You’ve got the whole province shaking.
Lekhaim from the Gristmill
