Too busy posturing for power

Once in a while something happens that gives me hope.

President Obama cut down the idiotic amount of money the executives of the banks and large corporations were making to 10 per cent of what they used to make. These people caused the recession, were bailed out by the tax payers and still gave themselves a million dollars per month plus bonuses.

I wished the same would happen with politicians and executives of large banks and corporations here.

As far as I know banks lend out 10 per cent more money than they have in assets so they charge interest on money they do not have, but I am punished if I write a cheque when I do not have enough money in my account.

Mr. Mulroney sold Canada down the drain with implementing free trade that was to be for the betterment of all of us.

What it did was to open the way for large corporations to close their factories here and go to third world countries where the cost of labour was one step above or equal to slave labour.

For instance a pair of Nike shoes left Columbia for about five dollars and were sold here for 120 dollars or more.

That did us a lot of good, we lost jobs but paid the same price for shoes. Both the Conservatives and the Liberals have led us further onto this path of prosperity.

I thought Jack Layton would be different but I changed my mind when I saw him on TV stepping out of a big bus into a big four engine jet both adorned with very big letters saying Jack Layton.

Federally the politicians are accomplishing next to nothing while name calling and posturing for power.

In the meantime Canadian soldiers are dying in Afghanistan for a hopeless case at the cost of billions of dollars, while in Africa thousands of people are dying daily from genocide, hunger and thirst.

What kind of a humane government can stand for that? While we are at it, can anybody explain why all the gas and oil pipelines are going south while the Eastern part of Canada has to import it’s oil?

In B.C. beside oil and gas going south we have added raw logs to the list, that does a lot for our own forest industry workers now and in the future when all the good logs are gone.

What happened to all the big talk about secondary industry? What is happening with the fire protection of towns and villages in the interior of this province?

We can wait till all the logs are gone and then it matters little if the interior is on fire. In the meantime Mr. Campbell can do his grandstanding at the Olympic extravaganza while we will help pay for that until we burn out of our homes.

The 500 or more fires that burned last summer are peanuts compared to the urgent matters at hand that are related to the Olympics.

Do I dare mention the environment, now our premier is so very busy helping his rich friends while dancing on the pile of lies he has created?

The environmental issues do not seem to bother this provincial government very much, but I happen to love my children and grandchildren and I would like to leave a world for them that is the same or better than the one I have lived in so far.

Bert de Vink’s a long-time Quesnel resident who wrote for the Cariboo Observer from the mid 80’s to the late 90’s. The Observer is pleased de Vink once again decided to put pen to paper.

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