A4 - Sunday, March 11, 1984 - North Shore News Strictly personal by Bob Hunter HERE ARE QUITE A FEW areas where I disagree with the policies of the provincial government — wolf hunts, axing the Human Rights Commission, paying for misadventures in megaprojects with welfare money, and above all education cutbacks. But there are a couple of damn good ideas at the heart . of Social Credit’s secret ap- peal to most British Columbians. One is that you trim your sails in a storm. And the other is that parsimony is a virtue in lean times. These should be acknowledged. The Social Credit party’s source of political power is the perception that business executive William Bennett, Jr., can pull our chestnuts out of the fire, whereas a social worker never could. This has been the root issue in the last few elections. By rights, Dave Barrett should have committed hari kari immediately after losing the \premiership. I think, by the way, that the NDP ‘would probably be wiser to pick Bill King than Dave Vickers, since at a gut level people would sooner trust a train engineer than a lawycr. No kidding. I know, at this stage in my life, | would. Contrary to unconscious Iicftast doctrine, not every body out here in the CGircat Unwashed) finds business leadcts to be cnturely demon characters (And not cnginecrs ) ft ois) recognized by ous masses, specifically, that businessmen create yobs) Dut to for good businesswomecn In most ordinary people's cyes, this may not be wildly exciting, but aoa a good cnough thing to be doing certainly Maybe cven slightly honorabic Morcove:, being good at business ts genecrally recognized (if not acknowledged all that much) as a shill Maybe cveo a talent With aotat of fuck you might get a genius running your outfit. Anyway, thank goodness somebody else is doing it! God knows we can all think of examples of in- dustrial captains who ran the ship up on the rocks. But my various cheques come mostly from somebody who could get it together to organize a business. Few cheques, | note, come from a government. One giveth. One taketh. Organizing a business is ac- tually one of the truc creative acts. You are dealing with the real world. There are limita- tions everywhere. But door- ways, too. Risks. Rewards. Prices to be paid. Pressure. Pressure. Etc. Above all, the person who sets out to build a little business empire must accept a mostly-unspoken respon. sibility, namely, not to blow the gig, since it leaves peoplc out on the street. He or she ts scrutimized mercilessly. Like everybody (except the few who did the proper thing and inherited thei moncy) | am naturally ao student. of employer employee relations. having functioned at both ends Although for a lot of time tn the role of employee Vhat's what most of us are For all the grumbling, there's a reason for that Be ing Che boss is tts Own special hind of hell Most of us would cather avoid the stress thank you bE rnceutlives tend to work harder than thee and me That's how they gai authority and keep it And we all hoow this Poimention ato now om the time beading to the selection of anew NDP leader in bev ause the secret of Mr Bll Bennetts appeal is that he secos to have lived cn the cecal world, where you spend your own money, not mine. 1 don’t think many New Democrats realize this. Or appreciate its importance. If they want to be taken seriously in hard-nosed, hungry, been-througb-it-all British Columbia in the 1980s, the NDP will have to come on as something entire ly different than the voice of the underdogs in an old class war. We want somebody who knows that the cash register is the heart of the operation. Not somebody who can quote Albert Camus. Really. it’s like that. Don’t think you guys. intellectual, Think practical. King’s as good a name as any. CORRECTION Eaton’s Canada Wide Specials Book Page 42 Nem 42A — Prestige cordiess tele phone, Mode! 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Blaze kills dog NORTH VANCOUVER Ci- ty Fire say an electrical fault caused the fire in the base- ment of a Fell Avenue home Tuesday that claimed the life of a pet. North Van City fire- fighters were called to the - house at 2045 Fell Avenue just before 11 a.m. Tuesday. “*The fire didn’t cause too much damage to the base- ment but unfortunately a young dog died because of suffocation.”’ Fire officials and an elec- trical inspector were at the scene Wednesday where they determined that an electrical fault probably caused the fire. They have not been able, however, to specifically iden- tify che source of the blaze. WOMEN EXPLOITED BY ABORTION Women speak out. Hear about abortion from women who have experienced it. 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