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Making Money Is Not Creating Wealth
Mr. Premier Romanow

By Mario deSantis, February 8, 2000

Our government is out of touch with people and is continuing with economic policy directions based on shifting the blame, based on more and more consulting studies, and based on saving money. Our politicians have no understanding whatsoever about the difference between creating wealth and making money at the expense of others. Creation of wealth occurs when more services and products are delivered to satisfy people's needs with the result of having healthier communities. It means that when we create wealth we become freer from materialistic needs, we strive to become more educated, we are healthier, we become more responsible for ourselves, we voluntary observe the law, we have more harmonious relationships in the communities we live, we care for others, we can enjoy our natural amenities without fear of being poisoned by the polluting residuals of our industries. In few words, we create wealth when we are all participants of our economic system, where we all feel happier and build on continuous small successes for all.

We make money at the expense of others when we compete in an economy without any concern for the social health of local communities. We make money at the expense of others when we disregard our fellow man(1), when we indiscriminately invoke either the Rule of Law(2) or the written word(3), when we socialize costs by polluting the environment(4), when we try to solve problems either by chronically saving money(5) or by banking on the flops of gigantic projects(6), when we build a Synchrotron in Saskatoon as the students of the local university face higher tuition(7), when we don't care of the plight of our farmers(8)(9), when the governmental drive to become global supersedes the interests of the local communities(10).

Our healthcare system is in a mess, our education system is not adequate, many of our farmers are in desperate conditions, our highways are crumbling, 40% of our children live in such poor conditions that they are at risk of doing poorly in school, our juvenile crime rate is the highest in Canada. There is no doubt, this government is directing economic policies on behalf of the few and privileged, and in the process is becoming more and more alienated from the people. This is not democracy Mr. Premier Romanow.

Endnotes

1. Downsizing and the City of Saskatoon, by Mario deSantis and reviewed by James F. deSantis; August 21, 1999

2. Premier Romanow: Reinventing The Rule Of Law And Becoming Above The Law, by Mario deSantis, September 2, 1999 http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/desam/paper-ReinvenLaw-Sept02-99.htm

3. Intimidation: Management style at Saskatoon District Health, by Mario deSantis, January 27, 2000

4. Valdez parked in Tisdale, FTLComm - Tisdale - December 19, 1999

5. SAHO Payroll Policies: Saving Money out of Ongoing Catastrophes, by Mario deSantis, February 9, 1999

6. Our leaders can't recognize an asset from a hole in the ground, by Mario deSantis, December 2, 1999

7. University of Saskatchewan: A Vision Built on Privileged Education and on the Synchrotron, by Mario deSantis, October 25, 1999

8. The farm crisis and the globalization of our economy, by Mario deSantis, February 2, 2000

9. Free-trade effect killing farmers, a personal viewpoint, by David Orchard, The StarPhoenix, Local A9, February 4, 2000, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

10. A governmental responsibility is to clean up our house first, by Mario deSantis, December 7, 1999