NB Taxpayer has been particularly cranky lately calling me names, questionning my objectivity and my taste in clothing. However, in the spirit of goodwill and no hard feelings, I have decided to pass on here the contents of an email…
Continue ReadingA short follow up
….to my last post. How many times have you heard (or said) the following style of statement: You have to have a good education system to foster economic development. You have to have a good health care system or people…
Continue ReadingHappy anniversary to me
1,517 blogs spread over there years. Over 6,000 comments. 300+ graphs and charts. I started with my first blog on October 28th, 2004. You can read it here to get a sense of what I was trying to do. I…
Continue ReadingDon’t put your trust in false hope
The T&T is selling dreams of oil & gas exploration powering the NB economy. Once again, Al Hogan loves to hype stuff up with no facts. The McCully field is producing and is profitable (as I understand it). Last year,…
Continue ReadingAnother dose of sarcasm – part deux
I’m just going to let you read this. It is taken from the application requirements for the new NB Growth fund: Eligible salary costs are the initial year gross salaries of full-time (i.e. 35 hrs/week) positions which are newly created…
Continue ReadingSome guys get all the luck
Come and listen to a story about a man named JedA poor Albert County man, barely kept his family fed,Then one day he was shootin at some food,And up through his iPod earphones he heard about Nova Scotia’s bubblin crude.…
Continue ReadingOdds & ends
Once again it seems that Al Hogan and I are at opposite ends of the spectrum. I said the other day that maybe we should rethink how we get funds from Ottawa – it seems much easier to get money…
Continue ReadingA radio quality face
In the 1990s, I had the opportunity to take an executive sales course. We were learning how to sell big ticket items to C level executives. The thought was that selling New Brunswick to a company on a deal that…
Continue ReadingSpending money
I don’t know much about how government decides how to spend its money. I study it probably more than most – but I still don’t understand the mechanics of how money is spent. For example, it seems relatively easy to…
Continue ReadingThe straight talk tax express didn’t stop in British Columbia
I guess the Jack Mintz Straight Talk Tax Express didn’t make it to British Columbia. What was it Jack said just last week in New Brunswick? Oh, that’s right. He said that tax credit programs were what “poor nations, less…
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