I read last week that Harper stated clearly that the government of Canada would not tinker with the Canada Pension Plan. Seems there is no need. It is well-funded and in good shape.
“Hey, Sal!! Just reading here that Harper promises not to mess with pensions. Ya know what that means, don’tcha?”
“Yeah! Damn it! Just as we get old enough to collect one, the bastard is gonna mess with them!”
“You heard me, right? I read that he said he would not change them!”
“I heard you. But one thing you can count on is that whatever the politicians say, the opposite is true. You know? Like, whatever the name of the legislation is, the opposite is true. Clean Water Act means pollution. Salmon Enhancement Act means extermination. Freedom of Information Act means welded-shut secrecy. If he says he isn’t gonna change them, that means he will.”
“I agree. I wonder how they are going to screw us this time? They’ve already cut subsidies to the poor. They cut taxes on the rich. And they are violating our rights and freedoms, giving away our natural resources and killing our fish to boot. What more could they possibly do?”
” I dunno. My guess is that they will roll back the pensions somehow.”
And I just read today…………….
……………(after the earlier ‘purge post’) that Harper just announced in Davos, Switzerland, at the gathering of the super elite that Canada is doing very well indeed but, in the interests of protecting our standing as the best country in the world, they are going to cut back on retirement benefits.
“But those existing pensioners won’t be affected”, he said.
And I won’t be 65 til next year. They may be evil but, ya gotta admit, they are good at it.
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Turns out many of the promises made by government were made while their fingers were crossed. We are a very rich country but it is a matter of changing priorities that determines which promises to the social security net will be broken. More than one in seven Canadian children live in poverty. Canada spent twenty-six million bombing Libya as of June 2011 but we still do not have a national day care programme. What’s next our elderly are turned into bin divers? Grandma gets a paper route?
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I have to say that I am an anarchist more than anything else. Well, a GREEN Anarchist. OK, a nice, funny and kinda cute Green anarchist.
Power corrupts. It’s that simple. And it is the reason God made sure I don’t have or will ever get any power over 48 volts DC. I would be a goof-ball tin-pot dictator running amok if I had half a chance.
Mind you, the first thing I would do is abolish the party system. Almost worth voting for me on that point alone. Let each of ’em run on their own merits, I say! If any of them have any! I think a parliament of independents would be the best thing, really. Even if they were frozen into inaction………..what could be better than that?
And all this was written before Harper and Redford and Christie Airhead started slinging promises of ‘good times’ for BC if only we lie down for the oil pollution they are planning for on our coast.
Gawd I hate the government!
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