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8 - Wednesday, March 5, 1986 - North Shore News

When the budget came down,
they were looking for something
that was Reaganish or That-
cherish. But all they found was
Brian Baloney proclaiming that
this is a French-speaking country.

Instead of a Beethoven’s Ninth
Symphony of a budget, they
heard only a Tchaikovsky‘s Dance
of the Signets.

True, the boozers and smokers
were hit again. But they’re meek.
Helpless, even.

It is clso true that more blood is

to be sucked out of nearly all of

us. But that’s par for the course,
too. How else do you think the
Baloneyite crowd can jet off to
Paris and live it up bilingually at
our expense?

The gnomes were watching all
that. Bet your depreciating dollar
on it.

They were sharply disappointed
that there is no evidence of serious
work afoot. Restraint? They've
heard that song before.

Take the ‘‘freezes and cuts in
the civil service’? stuff, for

f instance.

The first time I heard it was in
1962 when old Dief the Chief held
sway. Booze was cheap then and
the budget was an enormous six
billion dollars, which these days
wouldn’t even keep the feds in
paperclips. A royal commission
was set up to find out why we

THE GNOMES of Zurich are not pleased with the dwarfs
of Ottawa. And I know why.

were so wasteful.

The next time | heard it was in
1969 when Pierre Trudeau called
us all down from the Ottawa Press
Gallery for a big announcement.
Excessive spending meant fina -
cial disaster, he said. The budget
had skyrocketed to $14 billion,
and the civil service army was
243,000 strong. So the civil service
was to be cut by 10 per cent and
government spending brought
under control.

Gloom enveloped the nation’s
capital. Swivel servants stood
ready to jump out of windows. A
few of them tried to cut their
throats.

Six years later, expenditures
were $37 billion and the ranks of
the bureaucrats and clerks topped
335,000.

Don’t look at today’s figures.
You might throw up. The interest
alone on the national debt is $26
billion -- more than the whole
budget for 1974.

A bit more cost-cutting of that
sort and we won’t even be able to
afford begging bowls.

The Baloneyites claim they're
cutting back on foreign aid. But
they’re only cutting back on the
rate of incre: hewsk for $2.3
billion to diy=” wn that
drain in the ne. :

Think about it wie.
grabs your dough.

Burglars blamed for

BURGLARS are the reason

Janet MacDonald of North

Vancouver is starting to lose faith in Christmas.

For the second year in a row the
pre-school teacher’s Christmas pic-
tures of her four-year-old daughter
were stolen, along with other fami-
ly valuables.

On Tuesday, MacDonald's hus-
band returned to their North Van-
couver home on Fromme Road at
5 p.m. to find his camera equip-
ment missing, which contained the
undeveloped pictures.

Last year’s Christmas pictures
were stolen along with camera
equipment, valued at $1,500, when
thieves broke into the home in late
January, 1985.

“Last year I felt violated, but
this year I feel so mad,’’ Mac-
Donald said.

“Of they (the thieves) are reading
this, I hope they return the pic-
tures, Nothing can replace them,”
she said.

Besides the camera equipment
and film, the family lost a Royal
Doulton figurine valued at $300, a
blown glass ornament with 24-
karat-inlaid gold, a diamond
necklace, diamond earings, gold
bracelet, gold chain, cash and a
gym bag, which MacDonald
believes thieves used to carry away
the loot.

MacDonald said the jewelry,
which was insured, was worth be-
tween $5,000 and $6,000, and in-

cluded a necklace that had sen-

timental value, since it was a recent

birthday gift from her husband.
Her plate collection and a new

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The gnomes have a saying:
“Look after the pennies, and the
pounds will look after
themselves.’’

Our little friends will be con-
vinced that Ottawa is serious
about saving money:

@ When the Ethiopian Society of
British Columbia fails to get its
$4,000 grant from Multicult
Minister Otto Jellyneck.

@When there’s no $500 for
teaching Tibetan in Manitoba and
no $2,200 for teaching Cantonese
in Newfoundland,

@When the North Shore
Women’s Centre can't get $18,700
for supporting left-wing causes or
any other causes, and is told it
should go hold a bake sale.

@ When the Vancouver Status of
Women is told it can’t have
$83,000 to play games with, and
that it’s too bad if its Marxist-
Lesbian News gocs belly-up.
@When our diplomats in Hong
Kong are told they can’t have
government-paid memberships in
posh clubs at $22,750 a shot, and
that if they want to be in a club
they can join the local Legion.
@When the Prince County
School of Scottish Fiddling is told
that it has done enough fiddling
and that its grant of $1,295 is a
thing of the past.

But | fear that the gnomes will
have to wait a while before any of
these economies and a million
others like them take flesh.

Xmas loss

portable color television set and
VCR were not taken.

RCMP received a call Tuesday
from another home near Mac-
Donalds’ residence, on
Chamberlain Drive, with a com-
plaint of a break and enter.

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