Sunday, January 19, 2014

$23 Million Gas Tax Transfer - Just 'Spin'


Whopping $23 Million Gas Tax Transfer
Whopping Deception by 'Spin Masters' ?

This past week the local papers, and this blog declared the largest gas tax transfer to a municipality in the form of $23 million coming to the Regional District of Nanaimo.

Turns out the $23 Million was actually $7.4 Million and in fact the $16.6 Million for the water treatment plant includes funds already transfered to the city going back as far as 2005.



Why public doesn't trust politicians??

Since open and transparent are just a couple of the feel-good buzz words politicians throw around these days, I wonder how the spin they put on this one qualifies as either open or transparent?

On Wednesday morning our city council juggled their schedules so they could get their smiling mugs in front of the cameras declaring how fantastic this latest return of our taxes is, and how much it means to the community. In order to take advantage of what was just one big photo-op, they cut short their regular budget meeting where they might have actually been doing city business. Although that is pretty much more wishful thinking.

In Nanaimo this blog is the only media to clarify this point which makes you wonder just what type of journalism is practiced at all the 'real' media outlets in town. You know, the ones that employ 'real' journalists?

At what point is massaging and manipulating the truth, no longer telling the truth but willfully lying and being deceptive?

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