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PTBC J-Log

A conservative OPINION blog --with bite. OPINION by Joel Johannesen.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

CAPITALIST? Olympics division of gov sells tickets to electricity, lottery, car insurance divisions

Written by Joel Johannesen on Wednesday September 23 2009 at 10:04 AM


imageQuite apart from asking why it is that a government in an ostensibly free (and free-market) country would compete against its own citizens in the car insurance business, in electricity generation and sales, and in that other core function of government, selling those ever so vital lottery tickets and promoting the concept of citizens gambling their money away;  we now have to ask why nobody blinks when one division starts feeding another division money —your money—thereby creating a completely bogus market.  A false market.  A false economy.  Actually, a full-blown BS government market and economy exactly like the dead Soviet Union’s. 

Several government so-called crown “corporations” in British Columbia—divisions of government which the government disguises as “corporations” in order to help blur the line between socialist-thinking big government Fabians, and actual corporations owned and run by free-thinking and entrepreneurial citizens trying to compete as best they can in the world —are buying tickets to another government division —the Olympics division of the government.  (See one of my several blog entries regarding the blurring of the line, especially the one where a fully mind-altered citizen decided he needed to sue the BC Lottery “Corporation”, and when asked why, by the media, he replied quite self-righteously, “It’s about keeping corporations honest, that’s really what it’s about”.  That “truth” and “reality” the reporter never even questioned, of course.  Yay!  It’s working!) 

Many government “corporations” are already “sponsors” or “official sponsors” of the Olympics division.  Olympic “sponsor” or being the official supplier of gambling, is code for pumping countless immorally-gotten taxpayer dollars on top of the already countless hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars into a two-week global government festival of government-subsidized entertainment stupidity.  See the screen capture of the Olympics web site at above left in which government “corporations”—with their cute, purposely deceptive “corporate” logos—are listed right alongside ACTUAL corporations, as sponsors or supporters, as if there’s absolutely no difference between them, and as if it really isn’t simply one government division giving taxpayer cash to another government division in yet another big-government sleight of hand and dose of pure BS.  Government divisions listed on that page:  BC Lottery “Corporation” (that’s the “bclc” logo), The Royal Canadian Mint, Insurance “Corporation” of BC (ICBC), BC Hydro, Bombardier (not a crown corporation but I think they’re now, as planned, totally reliant on liberals in various governments), Canada Post “Corporation”, Port Metro Vancouver, and YVR (at best, quasi government). 

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Now it has been revealed that the government’s “corporations” are buying about $1.5 MILLION worth of event tickets (but of course because they’re government —the self-anointed elite—they’re not just tickets, but luxury box seating.  Government bureaucrats don’t like to mingle with the proletariat masses!)

When “pressed”, which I say in scare-quoted jest, because the liberal-left big-government-loving media doesn’t “press” this concept at all whatsoever, our self-anointed betters fumbled and blinked a lot, which was apparently no tip-off for the media.  One government employee representing the extremely important and necessary gambling and lottery divisions of the government explained that some of the tickets they bought will be given away as gifts and prizes to people they deem as good promoters and suppliers of the gambling, um, core function of government.  Another taxpayer-paid government employee stood there and said that lots will be given away as a way to reward the properly behaving citizens—those abiding by the government’s “go green” mandate of the government — those folks who are properly saving electricity.  And here we thought “saving the planet” from the “man-made global warming” was its own reward.  Apparently not. 

But the excuse given by the car insurance “corporation”, ICBC, you know, that core function of government, takes the cake.  They explained that none of the money spent buying tickets came from citizens’ basic car insurance premiums—just from selling the “optional” insurance coverage which citizens opted to buy over and above what the government mandates they buy by law from them and them only.  The optional coverage includes towing packages and other such core functions of government.  Because it matters one whit that the money came from people buying certain products, and not others, from the government monopoly. 

The government-owned, state-run CBC news media division of the government reports on its people’s news web site, which competes against citizen-owned news media:

  * ICBC purchased 2,108 Olympic tickets and 400 Paralympic tickets for a total cost of about $405,000, with 85 per cent going to brokers, collision repair shops, and suppliers, and the rest to staff to host business partners.

ICBC said its tickets were bought using funding from the sale of optional insurance coverage, and no funds from the sale of basic insurance were used.

And in news from China and North Korea and Cuba: exactly the same things are going on. 

Vote liberal.


EXTRA/RELATED:

Olympics executive takes new appointment at BC Hydro

By Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun
July 17, 2009

The head of construction efforts for Vancouver’s Olympic organizers is taking on a to a new position as chairman of the BC Hydro board of directors.

Dan Doyle, executive vice-president of construction for the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games (Vanoc), was named to the Hydro post on Thursday. He’ll replace Mossadiq Umedaly, who has been chair of the board since the end of 2007.

Doyle, a career civil servant in the provincial Ministry of Transportation, retired as deputy minister of the department in 2005.

During his career, he served as chairman of Rapid Transit 2000, the company [which is to say, the 100% government-owned and run “company”  —Joel] that oversaw construction of SkyTrain’s Millennium Line, and advised on projects including the province’s Gateway initiative and the Canada Line [all government]. ...


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