Personal Enrichment or Enrichment of Society (you choose)

 PASS ON TO A PENSIONER YOU KNOW!

Let's look at list of illustrious leaders and determine if they or we have benefited more from their years in "Public Service".

Joey Smallwood - oversaw the giveaway of the Upper Churchill and recruited and retained many foreign crooks who took us for a ride. He did give us the "baby bonus" - the "highway" such as it was and is particularly in Labrador and wonderful confederation (wherein he dispensed of our fishery).

What do you think - has he helped your children and grandchildren? Has he harmed their futures with his decisions on natural resources?

Then there is Frank Moores - well he did spend the pensioners money (put it in general revenues and built infrastructure with it) no plan to repay it though - so now pensioners living in poverty. Where did he end up? Well until shortly before he died  - was an extremely well paid lobbyist on the federal scene - then there was the airbus and schreiber Mulroney thing. Screwed up the Lower Churchill a few times and was also the one who purchased Upper Churchill rights from Brinco at outrageous prices and without any retribution on the bad deal. It almost cost us a bankruptcy.

What do you think - has he helped your children and grandchildren? Has he harmed their futures with his decisions on natural resources?

How about "Our Brian" number 1. Brian Peckford Well he was the giant (cucumber) who Sprung into action on our behalf and developed alternate industry. He stopped spending pensioners money but did not refund the unfunded liability left by Joey and Frank. He blew a deal on the Lower Churchill with the Power Authority State of New York (PASNE) - because he wanted to fight Trudeau on the constitution. We lost the development deal (if CBC would rerun the program) that was probably the best ever potential to develop the Lower Churchill. As we were drifting into debt - good ol' Brian 1 claimed he could not do the bad things necessary to do so he quit. Ended up making a fortune in the mining sector in British Columbia (living well). Wonder if he made any of those contacts while in office?

What do you think - has he helped your children and grandchildren? Has he harmed their futures with his decisions on natural resources.

Then comes Clyde Wells our constitutional genius and the man responsible for the "Economic Recovery Commission" or the continued enrichment of Dr. Doug|House for results which are non-existent. Then of course to fix our debt - he was going to sell off at bargain basement price Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro - had it happened future of Labrador was lost. Light bills would be up 50% we would still have virtually the same debt but without money making asset which has since become NALCOR. He is now a Judge (semi-retired). Clyde managed to get an actuarial done of the state of pensions.


What do you think - has he helped your children and grandchildren? Has he harmed their futures with his decisions on natural resources.

The along comes "Our Brian" 2 Brian Tobin -  The Premier of gab and celebration - he celebrated us out - did nothing for the fishery and tried to sell the last of our power resources to Quebec with a fizzled out seal-coat wearing event in Labrador. back and forth he went from here to Ottawa - to the extent where he did not pick up on Elizabeth Marshall's (then Auditor Generals) cries of I need to audit the House of Assembly books. We all know what happened there. Seems he missed the fray of women's panties and perfumes - art and wine - booze and money - gambling addictions and all other sordid little things such as a couple million dollars worth of pins and tokens. So he oversaw and enabled it to continue as he headed up the denial of Marshall into the records of the HOA. How's "Our Brian" 2 doing these days? Seems he went on to greater things and at last report was set to gain  millions in the sale of a mining company. How do you get from A to B. Brian refunded some pension money - but nothing for indexing.

What do you think - has he helped your children and grandchildren? Has he harmed their futures with his decisions on natural resources.

Then there was Danny - gained 2 billion lost who knows what of that when the market collapsed - then he lost 10 billion in fight with Harper that managed to get Fabian Manning to the Senate, Loyola Hearn to Ireland as an Ambassador, and Loyola Sullivan as the fisheries and seal guru in Europe. Left without finishing a deal on the Lower Churchill - and lined us up for another Upper Churchill fiasco  - the largest giveaway of this generation. He lead the way in health care by having his own surgery done in the United States - while crucifying health care at home. He has absolutely blown the fisheries file and did nothing to seek compensation for the billion annual loss to that sector. Most recently we have learned - that as Sue's Blog predicted - he did approve money to his buddy for fibre-optics which has not panned out for us - but apparently was quite good for Dean MacDonald when Persona was flipped to East Link. How's he doing - You can figure that out. He was however the leader in patronage and was well known for shutting up his critics through intimidation and was by far the best manipulator of the media. What did he do for the pensioners? He told them to take a flying leap.

What do you think - has he helped your children and grandchildren? Has he harmed their futures with his decisions on natural resources.

Now what's next - you really need to think about this - long and hard and maybe seek a better option.