Since there is no private entrepreneurship, our bureaucrats and politicians sell out our resources to global businesses, kill the economy of rural Saskatchewan, centralize and increase the bureaucracy in the cities, write off people and children in their balance sheet. In this environment of corruption, the potential talents of these bureaucrats and politicians dissipate in their fights to acquire the best bureaucratic jobs and business contracts for themselves or their friends. Therefore, it is not by chance that our Premier Romanow has the political interest to create and maintain a state of division and confusion among all of us, the people(1). In this state of division and confusion, the pecking ordered lawyers become the fulcrum of our economy, and as a consequence the attention of our social and economic predicament shifts from wealth creation to wealth extraction and dissipation.

The present state of confusion is today apparent with the governmental economic policies for the benefits of the few and privileged and against rural Saskatchewan, against our children, against our people. In my articles, I was able to show that the justice system is corrupted, that our police is corrupted, that our education system is corrupted, that our health care system is corrupted, in practice we are experiencing an endemic corruption of our social fabric. In my past article on the new Provincial Sales Tax(2) (PST), I highlighted the endemic corrupted and regressive behaviour of our Honourable Eric Cline, Minister of Finance, and of our Honourable Premier Romanow just by making reference to two literal passages of the budget address with respect to the PST.

In the first literal passage they conceptualize the tax as a socialist tool to extract more and more resources from people; in the second literal passage they show their intrinsic racism when they say that natives can now pay the PST on purchases off reserves since they are poor and they will benefit from the new sales tax rebate. The leadership of these two lawyers turned politicians is certainly enriching for the few and privileged, enriching for their friends, and enriching for their community of lawyers; for me, their leadership is a pity!

I appreciated the outrage and responses of the native population against the new sales tax. The Ochapowace Indian Band in Saskatchewan will not charge non-natives PST when they buy goods on the reserve(3). The band is also keeping any income tax money it collects from non-natives working on reserve. A new party is being formed to protect the interest of natives(4), demonstrations and lawsuits have been exercised by different native groups. As usual, in an environment of division and corruption, the lawyers are at work more than ever, and they thank Premier Romanow for placing the legal creativity on the pedestal of wealth creation in this province.

References

Quote by Donella Meadows "challenging a paradigm is not a part-time job. It is not sufficient to make your point once and then blame the world for not getting it. The world has a vested interest in, a commitment to, not getting it. The point has to be made patiently and repeatedly, day after day after day" ftp://sysdyn.mit.edu/ftp/sdep/Roadmaps/RM1/D-4143-1.pdf http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/meadows/default.htm

General reference: Articles by Mario deSantis published by North Central Internet News

Education and Health Tax: Wider Based and Breaks the Treaties, by Timothy W. Shire, April 1, 2000

1. The Political Mission of Premier Romanow: Divide and Conquer, by Mario deSantis, April 18, 1999

2. The new Provincial Sales Tax is a reflection of a regressive and racist mentality, by Mario deSantis, April 1, 2000

3. New tax system for Indian band, CBC Saskatchewan, http://sask.cbc.ca/ Web Posted | Apr 4 2000 2:12 PM

4. New party a matter of principle, Murray Mandryk, The Leader Post, April 4, 2000, Regina, Saskatchewan