Travel Forum / Destinations / USA and Canada / May 2007

With all the international publicity this past week, with TV and newspapers
showing the Edmonton cops beating up a young women, plus the tasering of a 66
year old lawyer who was photographing the police brutality, no wonder tourists
are wondering whether they will be entering a war zone!!

Then, there are the insane comments of the Jew mare, when he stated that he
supported the police brutality!! Guess he thought he was in Israel?

Today's Edmonton Journal [24 March 2006]in a feature article states that
Edmonton has lost many thousands of jobs, according to Statistics Canada.

This despite the ongoing lies from the overpaid staff at Edmonton
Economic Development, the recipients of more than $6 MILLION from the
poor taxpayers.

To add insult to injury, the fat overpaid hacks at EDE claim they do
not know why there is such a loss of jobs, when the economy of Alberta
is booming!!

How about a few suggestions for the jobs losses:
1.    Independent business owners resent having their taxes go to
subsidize another business - such as the $650,000 given last year to
the West Edmonton Mall car race!  Apparently the clowns on council
will be donating a similar sum to WEM again this summer!

2.    The wastage of HALF A MILLION DOLLARS by the Police Commission
in so-called severance pay to the former Chief whom THEY HAD FIRED FOR
JUST CAUSE! To add insult to injury, there was no provision in their
budget for this kickback!

2.    One major scandal after another, involving scams and the
police. The photo radar contract, where 2 junior cops are now charged
with receiving $437,000 in bribes from the US photo radar company. So
far, the chief of police involved is not yet charged.

Then, the papers for the past week are full of stories involving fraud
in connection with so-called police charities scamming the public.

3.    Irregularitioes involving the city tax assessment department,
where friends of city managers get extremely favourable valuations. A
taxpayer last year took the city to tax court, and proved that a
lawyer, had for 8 years, had his property deliberately UNDERASSESSED
EACH YEAR BY ALMOST HALF A MILLION DOLLARS - $149,500 when
the lawyer had declared the value to be $600,000!!
No honest businessman likes to be subsidising crooks and friends of
crooked city staffers!

4.    Waste of more than $6 MILLION each year to EDE, when the Chamber
of Commerce which gets NO city or taxpayer cash, is in fact working to
bring businesses and jobs to town. It seems that the only jobs created
by or through EDE, are the jobs filled by the fat cats drawing the
high salaries with all kinds of expenses, but with no measurements of
their performance!!

5.    Waste of over $4.8 MILLION a year, to the overpaid goons of the
Redmonton Oilers team, where the minimum wage is over $600,000, yet
the taxpayers have to continue giving the team more millions each
year!! If they can not survive with subsidy, then like any other
business, let them go under, or leave town.

6.    Interference by city council in the normal business affairs
and operations of businesses. The anti-smoking laws have forced many
businesses, and even Legion branches to go under. Those surviving have
seen massive drops in their customers, resulting in fewer staff being
needed.

7.    City interference in airport convenience. When the city forced
the virtual closure of the in town city center airport, jobs were
lost, and many business people from northern communities have been
boycotting Edmonton accordingly. They find that it is no more
expensive, and far more convenient to fly to Calgary to do their
business and purchsing, rather than have to pay the exorbitant cab
fares to and from the Leduc airport, plus all the travel time wasted.

8.    Edmonton silly councillors are trying to hike their pay again,
after jacking up taxes to homeowners by more than 30% in the last few
years! They even get a third of their salaries TAX-FREE, which they do
not deserve for the rotten jobs they do. They should all be paid
around $30,000, with bonuses based on PERFORMANCE, such as tax
savings, cost reductions,recoveries from criminals, recoveries from
developers and WEM,and similar.

These are but SOME of the reasons that a business owner would consider
Edmonton NOT suitable for investment, compared to other communities in
northern Alberta.

Hell, even a city councillor, Mike Nickel was forced to relocate his
tile businesses OUT OF EDMONTON, to Leduc because of problems with
city managers!!

I am sure that Sharx and Grosvenor, both capable accountants, can give
lots of stories as to why their clients have chosen to leave town,
with all the jobs.

If you believe in the TRUTH and the RIGHT,
then visit  www.freedomsite.org

Lawyers, politicians, and judges need to be recycled - as fertiliser!!

"At a time of universal deceit - telling the truth
is a revolutionary act."
(George Orwell)

David Icke - '...and the truth shall set you free'

"All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed,
and third, it is accepted as self-evident."
(Arthur Schopenhauer)

"The reason men are silenced is not because they speak falsely,
but because they speak the truth. This is because if men speak
falsehoods, their own words can be used against them; while if
they speak truly, there is nothing which can be used
against them -- except force." -- John Bryant  

"To attempt to silence a man is to pay him homage, for it is an
acknowledgement that his arguments are both impossible to answer
and impossible to ignore."
--John Bryant