Wednesday, April 1, 1987 ceptance Factor.”’ HUGH’ S VIEWS _ . _ HUGH] NASH. : ae womens breed Acceptance Factor “One of the reasons dictatorships get away with their crimes for so long is because there exists what I call the Ac- International investment analyst Harry Schultz was talking THE REVIEW 9781-2nd St., Sidney B.C. against newly imposed drug-dispensing fees, real estate taxes _and rural tax hikes. The people in these groups will yell and scream for a while, then quiet down and resume behaving like good little citizens. Schultz’s Acceptance Factor will take over and taxpayers across the land will return to doing what they’ve always done —— sending money to the federal and provincial capitals and trying to live on what’s left. , I] see no end to this cycle repeated vear after year in coun- tries throughout the world. Slowly but surely the producers of the world are being bled by their governments and with the same results achieved by early physicians who used leeches — the patients die or are disabled. A hundred years or so ago the patients physically died and were thereafter looked after by their god or gods. about people like Castro, Mao, USSR leaders and a number of African poohbahs when he wrote that in one of his recent newsletters but it seems to me it also refers to our present federal and provincial political leaders and their clutches of Today, the politocrats’ modus operandi is to cripple its citizens financially and then. step in like benevolent big brothers to look after them, thereby justifying increased public expenditures, for ‘‘the public good.’’ “Editor: . -.. Believe it or not: “After two. refusals. by: government to construct. a one: million water tank.in Dean park - ~ anybody, options. (A, theewater tank are facts free. of. oo opinions.’ That. kind: of argue. senior bureaucrats. pensive goods. pocketbooks. creasing uncontrollably. doomed to failure. Right now in B.C. we have several little groups fighting For example, consider the annual budgets pumped out by those. two groups in the past month and the intensive public relations campaigns which followed. No sooner had a wave of federal budget justifiers inun- dated us with excuses for their decisions then a gang of. pro- vincial monetary apologists appeared to sell us their bill of ex- Eventually we’ll succumb to their verbiage because both _these groups of politocrats are professional word weavers — - especially when it comes to justifying picking their public’ S They use mushy phrases like ‘“temporary measures,’ “‘conservative approach,’ ‘‘redistribution in favor of the average taxpayer” as smoke screens to cover what is really go- ing on'—_ raising taxes to cover expenditures which are in- Opposition to these tax hikes is always inadequately organized by small, special interest groups and, when pitted against the well-oiled government disinformation machines, At some point, and I don’t pretend to know where it is, the ability of the decreasing number of producers to support an increasing number of dependents ends and the whole system collapses in a bloody revolution. That’s where we’re headed in this country unless by some miracle the annual increases in government experiditures at all levels are. replaced by decreases. I also see no way for this to happen until it becomes finan- _ cially rewarding for politocrats to act in this manner. : If. someone had the guts to implement an incentive system whereby politocrats received pay increases only when they decreased public spending and earned annual bonuses con- tingent upon drops in the national and provincial debt, and their pay was docked when either increased, then we'd be off the road to ruin and on the one to redemption. . _ But don’t get your hopes up. I don’t see anyone out there with those kind of guts and the power to use them. Do you? All I see are armies of politocrats pounding us with semi- truths.. concerning ‘‘equitable distribution of wealth,’’ “‘redistribution in fairness to all’’ and ‘‘sensitive to the needs of society.”’ - , The Acceptance Factor at work. It?s enoughto make you throw up. “Let's not blow moderate marina proposal Editor: “The. letter. to ment: makes: two:.things.. quite “clear. The. outer: breakwater is -.dead. and the inner..breakwater - = commtment.”) ‘but it. isa the . provincial “the water. commission is going : , to: try again. At its “Mar. 26 ‘meeting the = ‘ committee chairman, in-referr- ing to. the public. meeting of March. 5 on this issue, lectured members on the importance of separating professional advice, as provided by engineers from Opinions. utterd by. just the engineers’ recommendations on a site:for the water tank pro- - vide a-solid basis: for. decision- making. The chairman left no doubt how he would like the members to vote on the question of: i » owater-tank. inside or. outside the ‘park. “Well meaning as “the: ehair- man oaimay. have cbeen in ment is nonsense. , lana enememamraants Wall, well, well, seen nbratan i ( the “ina mayor dated March 23 from the. “Ministry of. Economic Develop-~ iat Novacorp si sized marina. port. an. inner breakwater ap- <‘pligation * *(tftie ” this “is” “nota. cent. I. clearly understood. ~ - the chairman to.say that: only. his thoughts and directions, he is» making a presumptions mistake - » in implying that the engineering - cost data foreach of the three B, C) for-locating » na wesint Hie ef woe et positive statement 'and I am sure our two:‘local: MLAs. will also “support:such a plan. letter anda. 7 “previous one from. the minister : “The ministry of finance makes it clear that.” oa ‘ te Hane ra Water - the developer must be required *- plan -as . recommended by. the Novacorp’ Corporation. is’ still : alive: Grace McCarthy indicates.” : “the federal’ government: will sup- - to: sign a long-term lease. to en- sure the ‘emphasis - willbe -on ‘transient? marina berths, "Believe it or not: “Attempt No. 37 “Take, for’ instance, the opi- nion that. under option C there should be a water pipe to the In- dian .Reserve, or consider. the.. ~ number of homes that.may be built:above the 450 feet contour over the next. five or 10-years, It can be'no more than a well -in- formed opinion. For discoun- - ting to arrive at present. values the engineers: used. a. discount ‘rate (called by them incorrectly “depreciation’') of four. «per seven or cight per cent. Besides One does not have. to be an engineer to recognize that | the cost data for the three op- tions are incomplete. Two -miss- ing components, as observed by ans attender oof. the meeting, are the cost. of land and the cost ofthe distribution system associated with: catch: ope tion. The chairman’ nined ‘one of the “members made much of some e slight” sarcasm: directed) at theo. engineers in the brief presented by the. Friends. of Deane Parks oo But it was can understandabt.. slip (perhaps good-natured tease ~ing) if one considers that the: “public meeting. Wits. “provide ¢ the: public’ with. in- formation that wa nee them to overeat saath asmaenineecrabmetmaretnimmmamanen onnmoen "PENINSULA LIFE “tank who's oul ot hibaraationt"” peveaoy arsmanneinanrammnieece ened = --quite. happy: as he. never: did. “research paper Cased: on . ~.Novacorp report: and :the APC: : ‘recommended: ‘against. --» dominiums* and. questioned the \Mlability. of© a large: marina. Les ~ While’ some Council’ miemibers: may be disappointed the outer in re breakwater is 5 dead we can be. sure the developer Jim Kelly is them ’-to. support. an’. inner want. a’ large money : _Joome .-the Sidney: Review on Aug. 28; ; T “marina. ok », 1986 quoted Laurence:Lambert», ‘On™March : 16- . “wrote: a. of: Sidney. Pier Holdings. as. | the. follows. ‘‘Our. proposal :doesn’t “require the breakwater’’ report:of Feb; Qin which they: -con- =interested: :.in building. ‘condos submitted my. paper. ‘the profit and: do- not. want to® be» federal: and. ‘provincial’ govern: locked in to any transient’ berth: Do Marina... of. whatever.-.size.?)- J -’That’s: the name. of the game” and. quite normal;. -the®: make profit’ and councils are, make up their: minds, and then - there “to: protect the” public in-' it turns out thatthe cost data presented «are. biased without ‘terest, | warning. (by engineers’ opi- ‘A’. Times- Colonist editorial nions), are ‘incomplete, . and (Mar. 3). questioned: council’s ments. in an effort to convince ‘breakwater. I. pointed out: that: JA fair. | “interpretation of that statement |» << suggest-is.‘‘We are only really.’ ‘and. commercial buildngs fora. Brentwood ‘Bay B.C. Cc. ‘developers are: in business to” _| CENTRAL VACUUM SYSTEM . Thatis an opinion, Inmy | “view it should have been about public . . therefore misleading. It.is a matter of interest. to: note that. the majority of those at the public meeting. and: who questionnaire © were opposed. to placing the ‘completed the.’ tank -in.’ the park. .Now the engineers-claim that meetings of this kind are not representative | can. because citizen groups dominate such. meetings. Why issue the questionnaires in the first place? There canbe little » doubt, however, that the results would have been happily ae- cepted if- they had supported the choice-of the engineers and the water commission, ‘Siepko H.L ok . again, expertise in. dealing with the . ‘developer and suggested they “employ a special planner with ” experience in. dealing with developers to negotiate the best possible deal for Sidney’’. :.- Now is. obviously the time to get that help and it is also time “to-stop secret council meetings on any proposed development. ‘The public is entitled to know. what council and the developer “are up-to. before any “decisions are made. not after. . We now have achance to get a. moderate size marina and-a breakwater-- let’s not blow -it John Wood salled ta Sidney, B.C, .:- Sidney FROM THE | TOP OF THE PILE. 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