Leaping into the New Year
![[and over the Fiscal Cliff]](https://hungdrawnandcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/31122012.jpg?w=479)
[and over the Fiscal Cliff]
My-Oh-Mayan! [We hope you are still here to read this Blog]
“We see the world hurtling over a steep fiscal cliff on 21122012”
B.C. Government announces 50% increase in Deficit [Roll out the barrels!]
Christy Clark still promises to balance the budget next year
B.C. Liberals spend $ 15 million to advertise their pre-election jobs strategy
Strategy: trying to protect their own jobs
Nov. 22nd: St. Cecilia Day [patron saint of music]
St Cecilia: overseer of budget cuts, reduced subsides, slashed programs, funding moratoria, school Arts class eliminations, pirated intellectual property
No More Ho, Hos!
Hostess Brands, maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Ho Hos, to close permanently.
Trying to avoid the “fiscal cliff”
Obama tries to reign in the Republican-dominated Congress; seeks compromise to avert Jan 1st financial crisis.
Pillow shares: Love is blind but not marriage
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other Canadian Conservative Government Ministers’ spouses, hold publicly traded shares in companies that could be affected by government decisions.[Govt. ministers must put shares into blind trust to avoid conflict of interest]
Angela Merkel: Ode on a Grecian Burn
Out of the frying pan, into hot Greece: Intense protests greet German Chancellor’s visit.
A Job for Superman? Metal Thieves Steal Copper Wire, Phone Booths from Telus
Metal theft cost Telus $17 million last year
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