Leave no authority existing, not responsible to the people

Providing quality and affordable health care … education … and social programs, for all British Columbians, must be one of the top priorities of government.

For that to happen, I also believe that government needs to provide us with the opportunity to have real input into the planning and implementation of programs and services.

Further … for government to have the money we need for these programs and services, it must reduce its debt, so we can stop paying millions of dollars, each and every day, just to make the interest payments.

Paying nearly $7 million dollars a day just in interest payments is bad business! 

Plain and simple, this is a waste of the financial resources we have entrusted to the government.  What we need is a smaller, less intrusive, government that lives within its means.

It is apparent to almost everyone, that our current provincial government is indeed living way beyond its means. 

Every new dollar government borrows increases our debt … adds to interest payment to service the debt … and means less money available for education, health care, social services, and other needs of the people of BC.

Thomas Jefferson was one of the American founding fathers, and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.  Well over 200 years ago, he spoke these words:

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities (the quality or state of being happy).

He also said …

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

As well saying …

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Those words, while they spoke to the future of our neighbors to the south, are just as true today, and they are just as applicable to how we should be governed here in British Columbia.

That’s why BC Conservatives are continuing to put together policies that will provide a vision of hope and prosperity for each one of us today … and for our children in the years ahead.

If you disagree with what I’ve had to say, then you can ignore these words.  If however you question the direction our province has taken under Christy Clark and the BC Liberals, then the time to act, and be involved, is right now.

I’m Alan Forseth in Kamloops, with the thoughts of one conservative.  Now you have the floor; what do you think?