-j- get this straight by Doug Collins ‘(perts I-T e THE TROUBLE with provincial budgets is that everyone except me is an expert on them. Television crews wander around sticking mikes under the noses of all the learned folk in shopping malls and bus queues and getting ins- tant expert ‘analyses. Sometimes they even go into the pubs, where the opinions come even faster and some of those being interviewed sound as if they would spell” ‘*budget:” as B-U-J-1-T. Well, that just goes to show that beer parlors are the right places in which to study economics. Me, I have to spend a week thinking about the blessed bujit before I can get out a decent DAMMIT. The TV people aren’t alone in: this, of course. PH bet right. now that: Ellsworth Dickson is out procuring some real stuff from the right stuff for the North Shore News. But to see a really im- pressive performance . you had to take a gander at Tues- day’s morning daily. Remember, the bujit had been presented by old Fudge Face the Finance Minister on- ly a short time before the presses. rolled, yet experts were splashed right across a double-page spread before you could.say ‘“‘bankrupt.’’ WHY A JOB? One such expert, described as an unemployed ad- ministrative secretary, said sadly that the bujit was ‘‘un- fair and depressing,’’ her UIC expiring in a few mon- ths’ time and she expecting a harder time getting welfare. Well, all I can say is that Gold Key Leasing by... PACIFIC DODGE CHRYSLER Great Business Car! 9666 King George Hwy. Surrey «s K” ’? 4 Door Front wheel drive, 2.2 en- gine, automatic transmis- sion, electric rear detrost- er, power steering, power brakes, steel belted w/s/w she’d better start moving into McDonald’s. - Then there was the un- employed electrician who had been expecting some job creation in the bujit. Why? I have never expected any such thing in any.bujit. All I have ever expected out of any bujit was to be robbed, and I have “never been disappointed. This occasion is no excep- tion. Having had a few days to work it out, I can state that they’re robbing me right now so as to be able to pay off B.C. Rail’s ‘‘historic debt.”’ But, did I incur the debt? Did I heli. Not only that, but the trains wake me up too early. ' But to get back to the elec- trician. There he sat with his wife, two kids and the family cat, occupying three columns - in the paper when he could have been out looking for a job. And his wife had the gall to complain about the reduc- tion in funds for English as a Second Language program in the schools. According to her, this means that teachers will have to spend more time with immigrant kids who don’t savvy English too good, and her offspring will get less attention. WIPE OUT ESL Did you ever hear such nonsense? Allan Garrbage himself couldn't improve on that. She should have been cheering, and yelling for the wiping out of ESL classes altogether. The money would be better spent by thee and me. Especially me. LEASE WITH NO DOWN PAYMENT! now' ONLY $ 1 -the nice-looking little lass tires, left outside mirrors, deluxe cloth & vinyl seats. custom radio, halogen headlights — order your's >0 DOWN! Payments based on 48 mo. closed end lease NO DOWN PAYMENT 25,000 kms. per year Bonus! at pacific Dodge Chrysier Equal vatues on Dodge Colts, Omni, LeBaron. New Yorkers dodge trucks & Magic wagons. etc. — Out ot Town Cati Collect! Leasing is Terrific at... PACIFIC DODGE CHRYSLER The Leasing Profeasionals! Then there was the guy who said that welfare cuts would increase the crime rate. More nonsense. All it will mean is that there will be more people willing to take more jobs than they were willing to take before. And of course there was who, being a student, was ‘*hard hit’’ by the bujit on ac- count of community college funding being reduced. Glad to hear it. All those places turn out is grant-hungry Marxists. How come nobody wanted MY opinion? | could have told them it’s bad for my health when Hugh Curtis puts up my taxes for a health tax. But I must go now. To the Avalon, where I can study bujits with the boys so that I’m ready for next time. Let’s take careof — gg00 per mo plus tan 585-3141 7 - Friday, February 24, 1984 - North Shore News _ NEWS. photo Stuart Davis “THANK GOD IT’S FRIDAY’”’... commuters line Taylor Way in West Van for the final workday of the week. “Before you buy... Read Oni”’ We are moving. We must clear our entire inventory Save $$$ syipHebe scitly fae Patahen phaabitess hey deck and i ected | Wisden tog] PHT Pc apy $189. Don’t Delay! Sale ends Feb. 29/84 Linens °29.95 Comforters Pillows Sheet sets from incl 2 pillow Cases o large selec ton of colors and patterns from queen $ize polyester trom Bottom fitted sheets 19.95 °39.95 Floatation Mattress Duvet Covers Furniture Save wipe te: 60% vn bedrovimn furniture {camtinetital troy 29.951 quilt covers) PACIFIC RIM WATERBEDS 229 Mountain Hwy. 988-2966 1 block Northof Main St.