According to my source that sent me this unsent internal CBC memo, this was intended to hit the inboxes of CBC employees tomorrow:
Tough Times
I wanted to give you an update on where things stand with respect to our financial challenges, as the SET just wrapped up a couple of days of budget planning. Not an easy task.
Our focus in this budget planning has been to do everything we can to minimize the effect of these tough times on our services, programs and our people. The decisions we will take must also be anchored in a clear vision of what we want and need to become as a 21st century public broadcaster. We must ensure we’re positioned to become a content company, the home of Canadian programming. We must be the leader in reaching Canadians on new platforms. And, we must be deeply rooted in the regions. Ultimately, what we must do to manage our way through these financial straights has to respect these priorities and sustain our ability to serve Canadians well. All of that, with the worst economic crisis in years as a backdrop.
Our industry is certainly caught up in the crisis with bad news every week – this week it was Transcontinental announcing 1,500 layoffs. As you know, we are now projecting a shortfall in advertising revenue that will be in the $55-65 million dollar range for the year ending March 31, 2009 (a drop of 17 percent from our budgeted amount, a 7 percent drop from last year), but we nonetheless still think that CBC/Radio-Canada will break-even for the current year. To do that, in addition to the freezes and cost-cutting measures we put in place in November, we have used all our reserves as well as the entire surplus carried forward from last year.
The more pressing issue is our budget for 2009-2010. The combination of a severe slump in our commercial revenues, coupled with rising costs of production is a menacing test that will demand some tough choices on our part. Tough choices that will affect, in one way or another, jobs, services and programs in our Corporation. We are still working away at finalizing plans. Nothing has yet been determined. My conversations with government are still continuing to try to obtain some financial flexibility to help our Corporation deal with these budgetary pressures, trying to find a way to spread the impact of this crunch over more than one year.
I can’t and will not predict the outcome of these discussions. Other avenues are being analysed at the same time including the sale of some of our assets to balance this budget.
You deserve to know that our situation is extremely difficult.
Let me tell you that I, and every member of your Senior Executive Team, remain entirely focused on these issues and on minimizing the effects on our Corporation, its people and its programs. But there will be consequences, even with the requested financial flexibilities. Our consolidated budgets and business plans will be reviewed one final time by the Senior Executive Team next week and will then be submitted to the Board in mid-March. You can therefore expect a more detailed picture toward the end of March. I’ll update you periodically as things evolve between now and then.
In the meantime, let’s keep CBC/Radio-Canada on course. I know that this uncertainty is not the best of times. Rest assured that I am working with SET to bring clarity to all this.
Cheers.
Hubert
(emphasis mine)
Of course, as noted, this occurs within the context of the global economic crisis. Despite this, CBC received $1.1 Billion from the taxpayer last year. According to the CRTC, CBC employs 10,200 people paying out $771,074,000 in salaries and benefits. This means that the average payout per employee at the CBC is $75,595.
Comparatively, the total numbers of employees at private broadcasters in this country is 7,402 with total salaries and benefits of $576,900,000. The average payout per employee is $77,938.
Is the CBC trimming the fat, or do they need some central planning from the government to help them do so? Months ago, it was reported that the executive VP for French-services expensed over $80,000 for travel, meals, and theatre tickets.
If any of this is making you sick, the next fact won’t make you feel any better. The CBC lost $15 million in 2006-2007 paying for 68,000 sick days for its employees.
In any self-respecting story about taxpayer abuse, there’s a no-expense-spared trip to Paris. The CBC doesn’t disappoint as that same executive VP that billed $80,000 in expenses also bought a $6,000 plane ticket to the French capital and billed over $2,000 in hotel, meal and cab expenses. Nice work if you can get it.
This lagresse is offensive when private news outlets such as Canwest and CTVGlobemedia are slashing jobs, dropping bureaus and cutting expenses. For example, CTV opted out of the Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner this year while Canwest has cut 5% of their workforce and even asked reporters and staffers to voluntarily return their cellphones because the company can’t afford to equip everyone that needs one. Jobs have also been cut at the Globe and Mail. The news business is hurting across Canada and CBC asks the government for “financial flexibility”.
Stephen Taylor is a scientist, political analyst and a blogger. Taylor writes here regularly and is the founder of bloggingtories.ca. Taylor has contributed to Macleans, CTV, talk radio and has been a featured speaker on new media at numerous events including the Western Standard Cruise and the Forum for Public Policy. In December 2008, Taylor organized Rally for Canada, a series of rallies held coast-to-coast to protest the proposed coalition government.
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:50 am
CBC is has gotten used to Liberal largess. They've been their trumpet for decades. We have evidence of it from “reporters” like Susan Bonner in a previous thread here.
It's our money, we all have to tighten our belts and that includes the CBC who are funded from the public purse.
Anyone else feel Don Newman has become a tad less obviously biased and has started to treat Conservative MP's and Ministers with a bit more respect?
Could the Oldies in the network be on the suck-up wagon?
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:15 am
If Canada had a legitimate, small-c fiscal conservative Prime Minister, he would eradicate the far-left bias CBC. If the PM eliminated this national embarrassment Canadians would see a billion dollars of otherwise squandered tax dollars materialize in their personal bank accounts annually.
In an age of numerous Canadian television and radio networks, satellite networks, and of course the internet, there is no longer any requisite for a government-owned, and tax payers paid for, TV and/or radio network; especially one ran by left-wing affirmative action bimbles and watched/ listened to mostly by the far-left, but paid for my people who actually work for a living and pay taxes.
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:17 am
I have been wondering the same thing LizJ. This will end abruptly once they recieve the funding they desire.
Sad fact is, Taxpaying Canadians are left wondering if CBC is broadcasting to inform Canadians or support Omar Khadr. My belief is they have thrown ordinary Canadians under the bus. Must be demoralizing to even work there when Canadians have lost all respect for them.
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:19 am
With little public knowledge, the CBC uses its friends in the cultural bureaucracies in Ottawa to increase its budget by over $200 million above and beyond the $ 1 billion parliamentary appropriation. The $200 million plus comes from two sources. The CRTC forces all cable and satellite TV customers (90% of households) to pay for CBC Newsworld and its French-language equivalent (RDI) whether they watch the services or not. As well, the Canadian Television Fund, which receives the majority of its funding from a hidden 5% tax on all cable and satellite TV bills, gives close to 50% of its funds to the CBC.
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:42 am
At the very least the federal government should be cutting the CBC'S operating budget. If you ask me I think that the federal government should be looking for ways to sell this cash cow. Let the private sector deal with it. If people are worried about Canadian content of disappearing,no need to. This is precisely why we have the C.R.T.C. for. In my opinion the federal government should not be in the business of owning media organizations.
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:08 am
this is disgusting at minimum Stephen.
Do we have any idea how many of the CBC big-wings and decision makers contributed to the LPOC? Seems to me that a light needs to shine on that as well. It may tell another sad reality story given the continued left-leaning bias of the broadcaster.
What a colossal waste of my money!!
There needs to be a groundswell of corresponding going on between the public and their MPs and the other private broadcasters to level the playing field by stopping to pay CBC from my wallet!
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:24 am
of course this sudden “less biased” approach is a suck-up.
But how about we hold a contest, in the same way that CBC likes to do re: Hockeyville and Canada's Next PM and list all of the current TV personalities and let the people decide who to keep and who to send packing?
Seems like the next best thing to putting on a platform.
After all, shouldn't the people who are paying for the CBC have a say in their report cards?
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:32 am
I am definitely not among those who call for shutting down the CBC, despite its Liberal-friendly personnel and its leftward tilt. I believe there is a place for the CBC and its French language sister Radio-Canada.
However, why is it necessary for the CBC and Rad-Can to have 'continuous news' channels (Newsworld and RDI) that keep filling air time with the same news broadcasts over and over ad nauseam?
For example, take The National … please! (hello, Henny Youngman)
Why is it necessary to broadcast The National at 9, 10 and 11 o'clock every week night?
Why is it necessary to broadcast a public affairs program like Les coulisses du pouvoir once on Rad-Can and twice on RDI, when viewers can either tape the show or watch pertinent segments online?
If there is indeed a need for the different continuous news channels (I am not convinced), why not collapse the English and the French language ones (Newsworld and RDI) into one, share the air time, alternating between the two official languages. As a matter of fact, even the Rad-Can sports channel RDS – and its equivalent English language channel (if it exists ?) – could be collapsed into the one channel.
There, CBC, aren't you glad I've solved your problems, at no charge?
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:03 am
Further to the CBC changing its stripes:
As a longtime listener to CBC Radio, I was startled to hear the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) being featured prominently on CBC radio over the last two days. The CTF was critizicing the proposed $10 billion bailout of GM and Chrysler. And unlike all earlier reports by the CBC on the issue, the story did not conclude with a comment from the Canadian Auto Workers claiming that the bailout was essential for Canada and that the CTF was wrong. The CTF's comments were in fact the only ones in these recent CBC stories.
Is it just coincidence that the CBC employees were just told that their fate depended on more taxpayer money being given to them by the Conservative Government?
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:04 am
Giving 1.1 Billion to CBC so they can skewer the PM and his team? Are PMSH and his team a bunch
of masochists? I refrain from watching CBC for fear of getting a stroke as my temper just
shoots up every time I see Khadr's face and the inevitable sentence at the end of their litany
when talking about him “Khadr was just 15 years old at the time of his arrest”. I have seen
Khadr's face on CBC more times than Mr.Harper's or any of his team members. CBC is so
blatantly anti-COnservatives, it is unbearable to watch the station for Canadians who are. I am
fully in agreement that there should be a balanced news coverage and criticism of the ruling
party is healthy. However, CBC's reporting and the twisting of news to suit their Leftist views
is simply not palatable. I have seen Peter Manning with a permanent scrowl on his face when
interviewing our PM and grinning ear to ear when interviewing Iggy and Layton.
The hotshots at CBC should have realized that if they were a station of integrity they would do very
well, but I suspect a large majority of Conservatives who are news junkies have abandoned this
channel for obvious reasons. I have many Liberal friends and very few of them are concerned with the news media and fewer of them ever watch news channels.
Our PM and his team should stop playing nice to CBC and read them the riot act for once at least on behalf
of 65% of the TAXPAYERS. No – I have not got that percentage wrong. Think.
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:45 am
Liz J: “Could the Oldies in the network be on the suck-up wagon?”
Yup. I'm sure they are, but I figure it's too little, too late.
And a question I have for the Oldies: why don't they get the H*ll out of the way and allow some new blood into the Mother Corp(se)? I'm so tired of the sinecured, mummified talking heads we see at the CBC year after year. Surely, they've got some pretty large nest eggs saved up, their mortgages paid off, etc., etc. Slurping at the public trough and not letting the new little piglets in is pretty selfish, IMO.
On the other hand, it seems that once you get hired at the CBC, there's this idea that the party, the pay, and the perks never end.
That's not how it works for the rest of us. The CBC needs to be called to account.
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:45 am
Once again, I must disagree with those who're calling for shutting down the CBC. Right now, there's an ongoing tug-of-war between Steve Paikin, host of The Agenda, and Warren Kinsella. The latter is urging TVO, another publicly funded channel, in effect to order Steve Paikin never to have controversial blogger Kathy Shaidle on as a guest.
http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index….
I would be willing to bet that many of my fellow conservatives would argue that Kinsella and others like him have no right nor mandate to decide who can or cannot express their opinions on TVO, no matter how controversial those views may be, and that the provincial government should not interfere in that squabble, as Kinsella has requested.
So, are small c/conservatives OK with shutting down the CBC because the views presented there are mostly leftist and/or anti-conservative, but against “shutting down” The Agenda, as requested by Kinsella for a similar reason?
It seems to me that's an inconsistent position. By all means, cut the fat at the CBC, but shut it down because one doesn't like the views expressed there? NO. There's plenty of other channels one can turn to if CBC is not to one's taste. That's what the remote is for.
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:03 pm
68,000 for sick days. Why do so many cbcers get sick, could it be from listening and writing all that garbage they spew. If these employees are so prone to sickness, let them go.
How about the execs return all those bonuses, if they are so concerned. Cancel all overseas trips and expenses. You want a holiday, pay your own way.
If you want more money, pledge to never show Khdar again, or Suzuki, no more expert opinion on Newman by columnists. Make the liberal party pay to have their non mps speaking for them. If they can pay for an ad at Times Sq, they can pay campaigners to appear on Newman. Keep Don Martin, Travers, all Susans off the air.
And the govt should put in a clause re funding, if there is one instance of bias, in coverage, or body language or facial expressions, all funding will be cut, the next day.
February 22nd, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Neil Macdonald is definitely on the suck up wagon.
He did an article on the US banks that positivity glowed.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/02/20/f-rfa-...
Maybe he's trying to make up for not understanding that Sarah Palin's daughter could not be 5 months pregnant AND the mother of 4 1/2 month old Trig.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullco...
The CBC definitively wants to forget about that.
They try to censor every comment on any thread by Macdonald that mentions his credibility after that farce.
February 22nd, 2009 at 2:11 pm
I feel that the CBC should at least make as much effort at bilingual service that CPAC does. The set up with Quebec and the ROC having separate services is not only expensive but gets in the way of communication. Its current format contributes nil. I am speaking as an immigrant and it certainly feels to me that the CBC has no interest in providing a national voice, only either French or English. Nor does it have interest in being a jumping off point for Canadian talent (regardless of language)
Whenever English CBC refers to Quebec it is in the tone of how “quaint” and “different” they are. The fact is that there is a huge drama and movie industry in the province which the ROC knows very little about because no attempt is made to either dub or provide translation. Instead of cultivating watchable soaps the CBC imports UK ones such as Coronation Street and Eastenders.
February 22nd, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Suffice to say, don't get me started on Neil MacDonald ! Making up is hard to do, adding sucking up to the mix complicates even further. It's all aboard the ship of No Hope.
February 22nd, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Gabby, the CBC can broadcast whatever the hell they want (same for Radio Canada), but do it WITHOUT OUR TAX DOLLARS!!! If there is enough of an appetite for what they are spewing, they will find the resources to broadcast it.
Free market and all.
February 22nd, 2009 at 3:30 pm
OK, relax, didn't mean to get you riled up. But sorry to disagree, Soccermom. Many countries have a national broadcaster receiving some sort of subsidy from the government, and a country as big as Canada needs a national broadcaster more than most. Maybe we wouldn't have such pronounced regional differences and tensions if there were greater care taken to present a truly national narrative.
It may be already too late in the 500+ channel universe, but personally, I'd rather try to improve the CBC and the service it provides, rather than give licences to one more specialty channel, be it devoted to nudie films, the intricacies of macramé, or another Al-Jazeera. The only thing that achieves is even further fragmentation of an already fragmented society.
February 22nd, 2009 at 3:43 pm
I agree with you, there should be more of an opportunity for the two official language groups to show their work to the other side.
Where you and I may part company – unless I've misunderstood your comment – is giving more opportunity to other language groups of having their own channels. I belong to an “allophone” group, but despite that, I firmly believe that encouraging immigrants to insulate themselves within their own language groups, even to the extent of watching their own soaps from back home, only serves to ghettoize people.
That is not the way to build a strong national identity, which until now has been defined as we Canadians are not Americans because we believe in national healthcare. Surely there's more to it than that?
February 22nd, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Shutting down the CBC is not the solution. Privatization is the cure to this problem. If CTV can successfully make a go of it, then the CBC should also. If viewers are not pleased with the bias, it will affect sponsors. Advertising revenue will always correct the problem.
February 22nd, 2009 at 4:24 pm
But, and this is a big but, this could also affect our supply of GGs.
LOL
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Gabby in QC: “I'd rather try to improve the CBC and the service it provides …”
I suspect that commenters on this thread wouldn't be calling for an end to the CBC IF the Mother Corpse was willing to “improve” itself by fulfilling its mandate to cover issues of importance to ALL Canadians, which would include regular commentary from both sides of the political spectrum, which very seldom happens at the CEEB. Their continual list to the left is galling, to say the least and, at worst, seems to be an attempt to sway Canadian voters to their way of thinking.
I would like to see the CBC have to raise their own funds, the way PBS and TVO do. Then Canadian taxpayers would not be coerced into paying for a broadcast “service” they never receive and with which they often hotly disagree, while those who are satisfied with what the CBC has on offer can support them.
Now, that would be fair, and Mansbridge, Macdonald, MacIntyre, Newman, Bonner, et al would either sink or swim on the merits of their programs, not be kept afloat by the tax dollars of often unwilling “donors.”
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:33 pm
We DO agree – actually, I am an immigrant from England!! I arrived in 1970 probably just as Big Igg was leaving Canada for the UK!!
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:24 pm
I no longer watch CBC for the very same reasons Maria. I get so angry listening to the crap they spew, that it's just easier not to bother. I think it's time they paid for their lack of integrity!
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:05 pm
“Their continual list to the left is galling, to say the least and, at worst, seems to be an attempt to sway Canadian voters to their way of thinking.”
That still is not a convincing argument, IMO, for shutting it down. It's up to the individual viewer to discern whether (s)he's being manipulated or not.
If the CBC were shut down by the government because of its leftward tilt, wouldn't that be more evidence of the nanny state trying to shield its citizens from unpleasant ideas, or POVs that are not shared by all/most people?
Again, to me it's a question of consistency. One cannot claim to believe firmly in the principle of freedom of expression, but then cringe when it's being exercised by people who don't share one's POV.
Maybe eventually the CBC will become like the US PBS. But even PBS receives a portion of its funding from the government, albeit a much smaller portion than what the CBC receives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Pu...
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Glad to hear I didn't misunderstand your comment.
“I arrived in 1970 probably just as Big Igg was leaving Canada for the UK!!”
So Canada was a two-time winner in 1970, wasn't it?
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:29 am
Because people who have different political views that you are obviously on welfare…
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:30 am
Some Canadians perhaps…like the one's who support the network that doubles as a Conservative Senator grow-op.
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:37 am
The BBC is fully taxpayer funded. I don't even think they have commercials on BBC TV, and it's widely recognized as one of the best networks and news agencies in the world.
February 23rd, 2009 at 8:38 am
Wouldn't help by broadcsting to a wider audience? Instead of just radical left wing ideas why not more content that is less controversial and something we can all enjoy, not just those on teh radical left.
February 23rd, 2009 at 9:35 am
Regardless of their biases, there is no good reason to continue funding CBC. Once upon a time, they were the only station available in rural areas, but the advent of satellite TV has made them redundant.
Effectively, they're out there competing with CTV, it's time to pull their funding and level the playing field.
February 25th, 2009 at 6:59 am
Heard the news confirmed this morning on Corpse radio. As posted over at SDA I hope MP Moore doesn't give them a dime more. If programing cuts are initiated by the Corpse does that mean less slagging of PMSH….one can only hope.
February 25th, 2009 at 7:28 am
From Wednesday's Toronto Star: “A spokesperson for Heritage Minister James Moore said he was already in discussions with the CBC and indicated the door was open to help the corporation.”
No one is blameless here.
February 25th, 2009 at 7:28 am
“Anyone else feel Don Newman has become a tad less obviously biased and has started to treat Conservative MP's and Ministers with a bit more respect?”
Do you have an example of that, Liz? Because I sure don't.
February 25th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
” … while Harper has taxpayer money from the PMO pay CTV hundreds of thousands to air his addresses to Canadians?”
I'm sorry to be a doubting Thomasina, but I'm loathe to accept that statement solely on your say-so. Could you provide some documentation to that effect?
It's well and good to make all sorts of allegations, but you know darn well that “a proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof, and when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.”
February 25th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Cut backs to the CBC may affect future GG selections. Is that a risk we should be taking?
February 26th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
You want an example, Ker? Just watch Don Newman.
February 27th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Robert, one day ago, said, “Cut backs to the CBC may affect future GG selections. Is that a risk we should be taking?”
Yep!! Go for it.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Hey take your shot…but don't try to mislead me. For example, you cite the CBC's sick time as if it's some big scandal infecting the whole place. CBC actually has a better lost-time record than the federal government. One part of CBC does have a poor record, but most of the Corp is actually pretty good on sick time. It was also interesting you made a big deal of the CBC's average pay+benefits per employee at 75,595 as if that was also a big scandal. Is it an even bigger scandal that pay+benefits in private broadcasting are higher at $77,938? Furthermore, bundling benefits AND pay inflates the figures. That's not an average CBC or CTV paycheque–it is probably 15 or 18% less than that. Media is highly competitive and those are the going rates for talent. I can tell you're trying to make it look like CBC people have created a nicely feathered nest.
Fair enough, make your arguments for or against public broadcasting. But be honest with the facts and context of your arguments.
February 27th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Holy smokes, guys. CBC, is supposed to stand for, CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, not, whatever we decide you need to be lectured about today and you damned well better believe us, CORPORATION.
I cannot believe that a single poster on this sight would defend our tax dollars being spent on any form of biased journalism.
The CBC, has lost it's way and I refuse to support a government supported NATIONAL broadcaster, that only speaks to a fraction of the Canadian population.
Trust me, the North have satellite dishes and do not need the CBC either.
None of us do so send them packing. Esta la vista, CBC.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:44 pm
John Doyle has a good article at the Probe and Fail today:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RT...
“The CBC can't have it both ways.”
Exactly my point a week ago: Either be a public broadcaster and rely on government largesse OR support yourself from ad revenues but not both.
It's taken Mr. Doyle awhile, though, to write his article. I don't think he's covered any points that haven't been made here or elsewhere in the blogosphere. If journalists wait long enough, they can get all they need to know RIGHT HERE!
March 8th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Without the CBC / Radio-Canada , we don't have a country we can call home .If any of you had a chance to travel extensively like I have , you would have noticed the large amount of garbage and junk food for the brain that most of the countries without a goverment funded broadcaster put across their tv screens .Wake up Canada , for a country that screams identity and uniqueness, how dare any of you want to demolish and take the CBC off the air .Yes , I agree , a clean-up is a must and so is some belt tightening .The CBC is a highly respected broadcaster all over the world and they do all this with much less money than the BBC or other well known public broadcasters .BRAVO TO THE CBC AND RADIO-CANADA FOR MAKING ALL CANADIANS PROUD ! We want intelligent educational and entertaining programs that only you can do with so little money to do it .
July 27th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
CBC Better hope that the Off-Shore Foreign Bankers building the NWO don't win an election in Canada and chop it up – Send a piece to Brazil, pece to China and a piece to Russia! How would they win the next election? Here is how they did it in the States lat election!
Two Party Paradyne Trick at Election Time
Elitists hone two candidates, train a Left winger, take another and hone her to be a Right winger! With elitist methods these candidates are trained to move at the right time to be elected, wherby they will arrange financial controls of the country for power gain of the Elitists!
The elitist boss is named David,the Left wing candidate is Obooba, Right wing candidate Sarah !
Because the elite are wealthy they Lobby and are able to create PR for these candidates that gives the candidates credibility among the voters and are promoted to become Dominant candidates!
David doesn’t care who wins between candidates as they have been honed for the Elities and David their Puppet Master!
Liberal Obooba gets voted in as President, he performs foremost for the Elitists! In spite of his oath!
Should Sarah, Right Winger get elected as President ,she will perform for the Elitists, despite her oath!
Right or Left = Elitist Win!
July 28th, 2009 at 1:04 am
CBC Better hope that the Off-Shore Foreign Bankers building the NWO don't win an election in Canada and chop it up – Send a piece to Brazil, pece to China and a piece to Russia! How would they win the next election? Here is how they did it in the States lat election!
Two Party Paradyne Trick at Election Time
Elitists hone two candidates, train a Left winger, take another and hone her to be a Right winger! With elitist methods these candidates are trained to move at the right time to be elected, wherby they will arrange financial controls of the country for power gain of the Elitists!
The elitist boss is named David,the Left wing candidate is Obooba, Right wing candidate Sarah !
Because the elite are wealthy they Lobby and are able to create PR for these candidates that gives the candidates credibility among the voters and are promoted to become Dominant candidates!
David doesn’t care who wins between candidates as they have been honed for the Elities and David their Puppet Master!
Liberal Obooba gets voted in as President, he performs foremost for the Elitists! In spite of his oath!
Should Sarah, Right Winger get elected as President ,she will perform for the Elitists, despite her oath!
Right or Left = Elitist Win!