When you first embarked upon your career, you may have stumbled, adjusted, retooled, and re-evaluated. Then you found your path. If you are a highly capitalized business in Canada burdened with plant and equipment and a claim that jobs will be lost in the face of market forces, you get teary eyed and whine to governments for bail outs. This is becoming endemic to the Canadian corporate psyche. If you have business operations in Quebec – then governments not only wipe your tears with oodles of cash but roll out the red carpet in a direct line to the treasury.
Your governments get themselves into trouble because they cannot balance a cheque book. Then they think in order to keep the funds flowing, they’ll need to “invest” in the plumbing that keeps the cash flowing. They’ve got it wrong. Capitalism is the driver of economic success. Taxpayers expect services related to the common good and not targeted bail outs for losers irrespective of international trade agreements and barriers.
In a capitalist environment while facing international trade pressure, manufacturers curtail production until the environment once again turns friendly. Those involved in the industry have every opportunity during a down turn in a land fostering freedom to redirect their energies just like every other Canadian is expected to do during times of career / job pressure.
I expect more of my governments handling my tax money and I bet you do too.
While mainstream media rhetorically and tepidly asks the question, “Did President Trump push aside a world leader?”, I’ll simply express the obvious having watched the clip. President Trump pushed aside the President of Montenegro in an effort position himself in what he thought was a more favorable position amongst a crowd for whatever reason was circulating in his self centered mind. Will he apologize? You and I know he’s not big on apologies. Will the incident be shrugged off by Europeans having been witnesses to the tumult en masse via social media? On the surface – yes but I suspect there will be a metaphorical impact which will linger as supplemental subconscious residue.
I think it’s high time that attention is drawn to petty civil infractions. This morning I’m sitting at a stop light when some imbecile ahead drops a tissue from his driver side window onto the pavement. In Cincinnati a child lies unconscious from a bullying incident inside a school entrance. Whether it’s spitting on the sidewalk, short cutting through private property, irresponsible driving habits, untimely texting, or impatient outbursts with service agents, incidents of intemperance and aberration are reducing our quality of life. With every act of social selfishness and disdain for the public’s interest, we reduce ourselves to beings absent from moral consciousness. Ultimately social fabric is weakened when the perception of fellow man loses appeal. As bylaws go unenforced, apathy pervades and a frustration builds in the ideologue engulfed in quizzical awe of mankind’s mediocrity.
The City of Calgary will no longer incarcerate for by law enforcements. Politicians focused on income tax receipts are blind to the potential for revenue from civil fines. With municipal budgets overly honed on police pickup trucks and pension plans, our officers neglect to monitor our traffic intersections. Photo radar targets the inconsequential, while drivers engage in crosswalk incursions. Self centered unionized civil servants maybe working hard at defining their retirement but maybe less so at preserving a quality of life deserving among high tax paying citizens.
My recommendation for public officials is to get serious about convicting criminals irrespective of the severity of a crime while enacting strict monetary penalties namely the garnishment of wages. The legal profession must do its part in processing cases in manner of time that represents common sense and affordability. The long term effect of failing to administer justice is the degradation of a nation.
Since the Deputy Press Secretary basically wiped the floor with journalists today, I’ll ask the obvious… was this Director of the FBI onto something in regard to the Russia / Trump connection which the White House came to learn leading to the firing? Not only are there allegations that Russia interfered with the U.S. election, but Donald Trump was praising Russia during the election campaign peculiarly when Russia had recently invaded an autonomous nation while sympathizing with the Syrian Assad regime. What is one to think? Is it some financial interest in Russia which has had Trump adorning Vladimir Putin with praise during the election campaign? When you fire the Director of the FBI who possesses a ten year term representative of an office needing distance from political influence, there are going to be some very serious questions that arise. When both sides of the political aisle voice both confidence and non-confidence at various times during this man’s sensitive post and tenure, could it be that his objectivity in alignment with a purpose of national security was executed dutifully in the face of political pressure? When nobody is happy with a man operating with such responsibility, it frankly leaves me comforted. Upon witnessing the immature bully like behavior of this President of the United States during the election campaign, I would not put it past him to fire the Director of the FBI for fear of potential reprisals arising from actions undertaken by a smart man doing his job. If you behave like a moron, don’t be surprised if people question your capacity for leading the free world with responsible unselfish decisions.
They chase a puck around a rink for multi-millions and reside in the U.S. preventing the imposition of Canada’s high rate of tax while you tote the j.o.b. for nickels in comparison. You pay into Canada’s social welfare state and sometimes irresponsibly pony up a three figure event ticket for an apparent privilege of sitting in beer and mustard stained seats. All the while your backdrop is emblazoned by the corporate logo of Scotiabank. Your neighbour to the left needs a pee break again because getting wasted is his idea of a night out on the town at the good ol’ hockey game. You lest not wait yourself for period intermission should the bladder be acute to line up anxiety. By the way – those multimillionaires want you to pay more tax for their new age arena and as for the Olympics….forget about it – the spirit doesn’t quite align with the profit motive and the violent spectacles for which you cheer, pay and celebrate. The hockey establishment has successfully marketed a strategy with a belief that in the absence of your own progressive realization of a life purpose, you will annually pay thousands for season tickets and the opportunity to witness another’s actualization of a capitalist ideal transmuted through a game. As a bonus you might get to see a street fight on skates and the manifestation of legal thwarting and impunity from assault laws.
