There is no big fix for anything, the fix is only found in healthier community, and as long as health care specialists and workers leave the province along with the healthier and youngest labour force, there will not be a fix for either health care or for our social and economic predicament.

Pat Atkinson blames the world wide shortage of nurses for the recent closure of hospital beds and cancellation of surgeries(2), yet we have had in Saskatchewan a decadent economy, an oppressive autocratic leadership, an unconstitutional and phony government; a government which breaks its own laws and encourages the abuses of basic human rights through a conspiracy of silence, intimidation and legal delays on behalf of the few and privileged.

We have reiterated and we will never get tired to say that the problem in health care is the same as the problem in any other social and economic environment. The basic problem is the lack of our willingness to recognize that the most important wealth of the province is in its people and that creation of wealth cannot be disassociated from the educational and civil growth of our people.

There is no quick fix for health care, there is no quick fix for education, there is no quick fix for our poor, and there will not be a quick fix for anything else unless our leadership stops to serve itself at the expense of our future, that is at the expense of the growing number of our underprivileged children. We need a change of mind for tackling our social challenges, and we need to have a government which stops its lies to its people. And as long as we have a leadership composed of copycats interested more to serve themselves and their friends, this same leadership will do anything to sustain itself and they will continue to lie and shift the blame of our social challenges to outside factors. Our current leadership is the degeneration of a mental jungle ruled by static, linear behemoths that see little more than one-way chains of logic, correlation, and perhaps an occasional vicious circle(3).

The world is round and diverse, our social relationships should follow the natural and creative growth for both our individual self and social settings, and instead our leadership is reinforcing a privileged economic growth and further divide our people, geographically, politically, educationally, culturally, and economically. And today I came to know that in a span of fifteen years, between 1980 and 1995, the eight largest cities experienced a further increase in the income gap between the rich and poor neighborhoods(4). Not taking into account the people who are disenfranchised, and not taking into account the unemployed, the employment earnings in the poorest neighborhoods declined between 11% and 33%. In contrast, in the richest neighbourhoods average earnings rose by between 1% and 16%.

And then we have Minister of Economic Development Janice MacKinnon lifting our human spirit saying that Saskatchewan is the best place to live in the world in accordance to the United Nations, and that Saskatchewan has been awarded the title of the 'Star of the Nineties' by the Globe and Mail(5). I want to know one thing from Janice MacKinnon, what does her heart say about our social and economic growth in Saskatchewan?

As we can see, our leaders continue to fool the common people, they don't speak with their hearts. Instead, this leadership speaks with the numbers manufactured by a segment of our social researchers, who use their reductionist linear thinking abilities to find Machiavellian numbers to cover up the misdeeds of our own governments and their loyal friends.

References/endnotes

Relevant political and economics articles http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign

1. The Reluctance to Change of Our Leadership, by Mario deSantis, November 28, 2000

2. Bed closures a symptom of worldwide nursing shortage: Atkinson, CBC Saskatchewan, Web Posted | Dec 11 2000 5:27 PM EST

3. President's Address, 1997 System Dynamics Conference, George P. Richardson, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany - State University of New York

4. The Daily for: 2000-12-13: Neighbourhood inequality in cities, Statistics Canada,

5. Honourable Janice MacKinnon says: Saskatchewan is the Star of the Nineties, by Mario deSantis, December 3, 2000