tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post758027353975910538..comments2023-10-25T07:29:40.789-02:30Comments on UNCLE GNARLEY: THE REAL TRAGEDY OF THE BALL GOVERNMENTDes Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02566013585647491614noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-29115502164682175142016-06-28T11:13:55.164-02:302016-06-28T11:13:55.164-02:30Mr. Sullivan
Thanks for your tremendous input-even...Mr. Sullivan<br />Thanks for your tremendous input-even if it makes me more depressed than ever.I don't know if there's any hope for Nfld. Our politicians simply are incompetent and we have so little control over ourselves as a province of Canada. Are you interested in running for political office?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-18196452001217584982016-06-24T15:45:43.226-02:302016-06-24T15:45:43.226-02:30I will never be convinced that the year 1949 and o...I will never be convinced that the year 1949 and our marriage into this union with Canada was our greatest accomplishment.I also know that we have paid a huge price for this union. When I returned home in retirement and realize the mess our province reached it makes me sad.I have spent my adult life in the west and I can state here today that newfoundland has given Canada is best resource in that of its people.The west depends on the many Newfoundlanders who moved and travelled to the north to build its refineries and power plants. Alberta is very happy that we brought our skills and hard work. Make no mistake you are correct when you say Canada has benefited from newfoundland bernie lerouxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-70557672145863145392016-06-24T15:04:00.261-02:302016-06-24T15:04:00.261-02:30For me personally the word newfies is an insult bu...For me personally the word newfies is an insult but that's just me..I am educated enough to the spell the word Newfoundlander...But I understand your words...I have lived away from this beautiful island for over 40 years now and if I had a nickel for every time I heard damn newfies I would be rich..Damn newfies is the polite version of whats being said by the way...I don't like it and I am proud to stand up and say I am a proud Newfoundlander...bernie lerouxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-80606208663952092312016-06-10T15:11:05.652-02:302016-06-10T15:11:05.652-02:30Hi Agnes!Hi Agnes!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-86032824177307221642016-06-10T14:24:08.808-02:302016-06-10T14:24:08.808-02:30When the government fears the people there is libe...When the government fears the people there is liberty. When the people fears the government there is tyranny. So wrote Thomas Jefferson. Never noticed any MHAs in fear during the fillabuster. Pretty happy and ignorant crowd for the most part, with lots of blame to go all around for our provincial debt situation. Maybe a tinge of concern when there were shouts (a female voice, from what I heard on TV) from the gallery 'Shame, shame' and they cleared the House. After praising each other, and singing God Save Thee Nfld, all were off for a long summer break, in time for second shoe to drop in the Fall. There was finger pointing back and forth on the billions going to Nalcor, but little as to the wisdom of Muskrat Falls. Meanwhile, did I not see Cathy Bennett on TV the day before saying they are in the process of putting Muskrat Falls back on track! On track: for what I wonder, another 5 billion or more for our LEGACY PROJECT it seems. Seems she has limited Stan Marshalls options of pausing or stopping this project. As the prior CEO of Nalcor, where is her sense of responsibility for the present mess. Is it even possible to put Humpty Dumpty back together I wonder. Meanwhile, thanks to Saudi Arabia, oil prices are down and electricity prices are to drop 5 percent, due to less cost for Holyrood oil. Was this the assumptions of 2012 to justify Muskrat Falls. Electricity prices were to rise gradually to prevent a price shock later. So the shock will keep getting bigger, whatever track Muskrat takes.<br /> Remember when someone threw a shoe at George Bush. Maybe we need a new custom here, heave a codfish or a sculpin at those honourable members. But heave in a peaceful manner. The object is to shame not to injure.<br />And as to Jefferson's opinion, for Nfld the fear is with the people it seems to me. Maybe God will save us.... there are signs that the caplin and cod are returning, and I cannot see where any MHA had input into that. <br />Winston AdamsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-86777680210891304882016-06-10T12:48:14.507-02:302016-06-10T12:48:14.507-02:30Wallace, I want the provincial Liberals to clean u...Wallace, I want the provincial Liberals to clean up their act and start ruling in the manner they told us they would. The stars are now aligned with Ottawa and if we are ever going to get ahead in this country, this should be the time. You know as well as I do, we have sent out all of our great natural resources and our human resource had to follow to other jurisdictions of Canada and in the case of our jurisdictional fish resource, to the World. If we had been blessed with good leadership nothing would have left our province, we should be refining, smelting and processing every natural resource we had here and only those surplus to our needs would have been shipped out. It is time for Premier Ball and Prime Minister Trudeau to sit down together and straighten out the economic mess that has been created in our province over the past 67 years. If the Prime Minister was thinking straight he would be calling our Premier immediately since the electorate of Newfoundland and Labrador are completely fed up after 67 years of bad decision making, the Prime Minister must be aware of that if he is in tune with what is going on on in his nation. God knows we had the best endowment of natural resources and the best strategic location in Canada that could and should have made our province the economic powerhouse of Canada, but somehow matters got corrupted.<br /><br />Sent from my iPadAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-82810463127611850212016-06-10T12:01:57.986-02:302016-06-10T12:01:57.986-02:30The New Democrats have already been in charge, und...The New Democrats have already been in charge, under NDP Premier Danny Williams.WJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08070910923518931583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-44584550270170215502016-06-10T12:00:50.088-02:302016-06-10T12:00:50.088-02:30Hi Agnes.Hi Agnes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-46897997062472440112016-06-10T05:48:27.452-02:302016-06-10T05:48:27.452-02:30Well Uncle Gnarley, you hit the nail on the head a...Well Uncle Gnarley, you hit the nail on the head again. I do hope that Premier Ball is reading your blog. It would do him such a world of good. Perhaps you can join his staff! <br /><br />By now we can only hope that he realizes that his has been a total absence of leadership. What Premier Ball needs to understand is that becoming Premier only gives you positional leadership. It simply comes by virtue of the office you hold. However, when you get there you had better have a few more arrows in your quiver. <br /><br />Premier Ball needs to understand one very simple idea: It is credibility that produces good poll results and ultimately gets you re-elected. When the people you represent believe you, they will follow you. Credibility comes from effective leadership, and the web is full of content on what that entails. However, if you can't be honest, if you can't demonstrate even a modicum of personal integrity and admit a simple mistake, there is little hope for having (or building) other leadership qualities. Whatever ability you have to articulate a plan and a need for change (and it too, is sorely lacking), the people will not stick with you. <br /><br />Brian Mulrooney wrote in an article published in the Globe and Mail in May of 2015: "Leadership is the process, not only of foreseeing the need for change, but of making the case for change. Leadership does not consist of imposing unpopular ideas on the public, but of making unpopular ideas acceptable to the nation. This requires a very solid argument for change, and a very strong ability to make the argument, over and over and over again." However, without credibility, nobody will listen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-47809745932713285232016-06-09T13:07:59.066-02:302016-06-09T13:07:59.066-02:30To summarize what I stated above, I truly believe ...To summarize what I stated above, I truly believe from the accounting I applied based on the natural and human resources that Ottawa and the other 9 provinces have had the benefit of for their use, from the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, for the purpose of creating Economies over the past 67 years, then Ottawa has a large deficit owing to the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. <br /><br />I would like to see a Federal Audit done on this, if we have that privilege. I am not sure whether or not our Premier can ask the Federal Auditor General to do an Audit on what we gave to Canada. It is unfair that those of us, who are now elderly, who have lived here over the past 67 years under the Federation of Canada and had to live with a very sparse economy and low wages, despite our great endowment of natural resources and the most strategic location in Canada, have now to suffer with paying off the humongous provincial debt with their paltry pension they are receiving. <br /><br />Sent from my iPad<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-5934072919274816642016-06-09T11:24:19.519-02:302016-06-09T11:24:19.519-02:30Bernie, do not hate the word 'Newfie'. I h...Bernie, do not hate the word 'Newfie'. I have traveled all over the world and I can tell you that people from all the places I have been know Newfoundlanders as 'Newfies'. I can also tell you that it is not said in a pejorative way at all. I have always recognized it as simply a short form and a term of endearment. Embrace it, I say. I am damn proud of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-80737171577880622202016-06-09T11:22:07.193-02:302016-06-09T11:22:07.193-02:30While not at all enthusiastic over the political s...While not at all enthusiastic over the political skills of the current government, you fear the return to the PC's. Well, let me tell you, if NL should be unfortunate enough to end up with the New Democrats in charge it would not be long before Gnarley would be revisiting the good old days of the Ball or Davis administrations..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-33611154848330054312016-06-09T10:56:21.758-02:302016-06-09T10:56:21.758-02:30bernie leroux. Great Commentary! I want to borrow...bernie leroux. Great Commentary! I want to borrow this sentence in your commentary and expound on why nothing good economically or otherwise was going to come our province, Newfoundland and Labrador's way. The sentence "We have yearned for the fruits of confederation but we received very little in return" and yes Mr. Leroux, we have yearned for those fruits right to this very day, but now let us think about that statement. Ottawa and the other 9 provinces were entrenched in the Canadian Federation, some of them, up to 80 years when England and Canada decided that the time was truly ripe for Newfoundland and Labrador to enter Confederation, even though Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent at the time of our joining in 1949 stated in his welcoming speech that Canada had dreamt of our province for 80 years. In 1949 the Second World War was over, there was much building to be done in Europe and elsewhere and many great economies were on the cusp to be built in the sphere which Canada would be operating. But Ottawa and the other 9 provinces were thinking differently than the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Their thoughts were directed eastward towards our province, they were interested in getting their hands on OUR resources to build their own economies, from both OUR natural and human resources. <br /><br />I would hazard a guess if there was and audit done on the accounting of our natural and human resources that migrated out of our province for the benefit of the economies of the other provinces and Ottawa there would be a deficit owing our province of Hundreds of Billions of dollars. Ottawa held the coveted fish, the air space, the waters that fell under our province's jurisdiction under its control, then there were natural resources like hydroelectricity, iron ore, nickel ore, minerals of other types, oil, etc., and of course our human resource which had to follow their natural resources out of here to find work. The human resource alone was immensely valuable. As a result our province and its people were doomed economically, through the moves made on our behalf by our politicians, both Federal and Provincial, to satisfy the economic needs of the rest of Canada . And then there are the 331 MPs of the old guard against the weak strength of our 7 MPs that we have to overcome in Ottawa. As it relates to The province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada is a dysfunctional country indeed.<br /><br />Sent from my iPadAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-18424131470671188352016-06-09T09:51:50.583-02:302016-06-09T09:51:50.583-02:30Since those days long ago when John Cabot arrived ...Since those days long ago when John Cabot arrived on the shores of our beautiful island we have endured the hardships, tragedy and since 1949 the laughter of a country we got dragged into....The skin of every Newfoundlander is as thick as the cement structures being raised in muskrat falls project....Dwight Balls dumping on the backs of seniors and working poor today is just another attempt to puncture that thick skin...If we look into the eyes of history we can realize the toughness and the will engrained into every Newfoundlander and the reason we survived 500 years on the rugged coast....We have yearned for the fruits of confederation but have received very little in return....I recall another liberal leaders proclamation in days gone by BURN YOUR BOATS..COME ASHORE...THERE WILL BE 2 JOBS FOR EVERY MAN... We have witnessed the demise of our industries like mining and logging...Oil in the 80s was, as we were told, our way to prosperity... Our fishing industry which every Newfoundlander is identified by, has left our showers and now struggles to be a distant memory...Now our excitement again on this power mega project at the falls have again put a bad taste in our mouths... So for me personally Dwight Balls lack of vision or just maybe his lack of ability to lead will just be another oh well..here we go again moment.... God bless newfoundland and Labrador but I fear we are cursed by the gods and by our neighbours to the the south who labeled us with the one word I hate the most..Newfies....bernie lerouxnoreply@blogger.com