My thoughts are really converging on the conspiracy of the Free
Market to put fiction before the reality of common people. The use
of the word "converging" sounds salient in the sense that it has
both an emotional and rational understanding as opposed to the
analytical tunnel vision of the Free Market to fragment or divide
every social or political issue.
The conventional media conjures up and reinforces this conspiracy
of the Free Market by representing the fiction of the fragmented
issues in the midst of TV commercials and as long as these same
commercials generate more than enough profits this fiction of
fragmented issues will be sustained.
I have found in the course of my research and writing that the
Free Market is a myth and I get so frustrated when I hear the
blasphemous gospel of conventional economists that "productivity
growth" is the key to a better standard of living. We must be
reasonable and understand with our hearts and our intelligence the
meaning of "productivity growth." There is a universal understanding
that "productivity growth" as defined by conventional economists and
by governmental statistical literature, is just a number indexing to
the deception of the conventional economists and the sold out
governments.
I ask this simple question: how can you explain that productivity
growth is the key to our better standard of living if such
productivity growth is fictioned in an economic environment of
corporate mergers and acquisitions, cost cutting and downsizing, and
worse of all the chronic gospels of tax cuts and chronic
privatisation of public service?" It is absurd to continue with this
deception of the Free Market, a deception which was depicted as the
last fragmentation of humanity in my last article "The ultimate
deception of Bush's Free Market: You are either with us or against
us."
On Friday, I read the sad story that the city of Regina in
Saskatchewan cannot afford to maintain the current public libraries
which have been in place for years.
John Charest, Premier of Quebec, has just passed his Bill 31 as a
premise for his vows to trim between three and four billion in
government spending and re-engineer Quebec, and cut some 400,000
public jobs with the fiction that some 60,000 new jobs per year can
be created by the private sector. In accordance to Charest's bigger
brain, it will take less than seven years for the private sector to
replace the 400,000 job cuts in government. Can you remember when I
was writing articles about the re-engineering of Saskatchewan
healthcare and their saga of re-engineered savings turning deeper
holes in the ground? We are living the BIG LIE of the Free Market
and of its re-engineering.
Anyhow, going back to Charest, he has quietly provided a
provincial loan guarantee of $1.6 billion on behalf of Bombardier
Inc. Laurent Beaudoin is chairman of the board of Bombardier and
member of the infamous Carlyle Group, and who knows, maybe
Bombardier can partially create those 60,000 new jobs per year by
manufacturing tanks, guns and by participating in the Hi-Tech U.S.
Missile Offense system as defense has now turned out to be an
offense in accordance to Bush's doctrine of international law: "you
are either with us or against us."
We are living in scaring times, and what is happening in
Charest's Quebec seems to be spreading across Canada. Patriot Brian
Tobin has opened his big mouth and has stated: "Make no mistake:
The labour unrest that has dominated Quebec's public life in recent
weeks is the first shot across the bow Canada-wide, as governments
and public-sector unions square off over rising deficits and what to
do about them. Mr. Charest and Quebec dominate today's headlines,
but this story will soon be repeated across the country."
Rather than invoking the fictitious god politicians shout at the
end of their hypocritical speeches, let me say: People save Canada!
References
Pertinent articles published in Ensign
Shire, Timothy W. Regina, December 2003 December 11, 2003 Ensign
Cernetig, Miro Quebec readies for mass protest of Liberal
cost-cutting (PDF)
December 10, 2003 Toronto Star, http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/
Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1071011413423
CBC Ottawa Mass protests against Quebec's Bill 31 December 11,
2003 http://ottawa.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=ot_protests20031211
deSantis, Mario The Saskatchewan Health Information Network is a
Hole in the Ground: Collusion of Romanow's Saskatchewan, SAHO and
SAIC May 24, 2002 Ensign,
Yakabuski, Konrad Charest's inaction tells real story (PDF)
December 12, 2003 The Globe and Mail, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20031212/RYAKABUS12/National/Idx
Tobin, Brian Quebec's on the cutting edge: We're all next (PDF)
December 11, 2003 The Globe and Mail, http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031211.wtobin1211/BNStory/National |