Wednesday, February 23, 2022

From someone in Canada, and it does sound familiar

Two-thirds of indigenous reserves don’t have clean drinking water, and the government gives the reserves $12 billion a year, but somehow the water problem is never solved. That’s because it can be demagogued during election season, exactly the way black people are used in the US. The money disappears into a bureaucratic black hole, stolen from the indigenous and the public.
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As a result of this flagrant generational theft, our private sector has shrunk and our public sector mushroomed. For instance, a cousin of one of my best friends was a Sherpa to a Prime Minister, and when he retired, he got the normal huge indexed pension with Soviet style percs, special doctors, special accesses, etc etc etc. But he also got a $54 million dollar grant A YEAR to run a think tank out of a university so he and his wife can swan around the world meeting important people and going out to dinner. Once a year, like clockwork, he produces an op-ed.
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The brutality in Ottawa is not a warning. It is a promise, a statement of the future. The working class will end their lives in moldering houses they can’t afford to fix, with minimal health care. They won’t even be able to RV to our National Parks.

Think I’m wrong? A gallon of gas where I live is $8.00. Remember how big Canada is.

Think I’m wrong? Friday the 18th, the Federal Fisheries Minister announced the death of the East Coast Fishery, a traditional occupation that has been the base of the Maritimes’ economy for 300 years. She declared that she “was going to leave as many fish in the water as possible, and to grow as much vegetation in the water as possible so that the Atlantic Ocean could absorb as much carbon as possible”.

In human history, every time a nation falls under control of a narrow elite that monopolizes economic opportunities and political power, that nation fails.

And when nations fail, a lot of people die.

And don't forget that, to a lot of the left, a lot of people dying is a perk, not a problem.  Got to work on the population, y'know.

Oh, and the Mayor of Ottawa wants to start auctioning off the trucks they seized.  There's been no trial, let alone convictions, but he wants to anyway.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

As soneone who lives near a Canadian reservation a lot of money gets syphoned off into the pockets of the band council members or used to hire family members for make work projects. Everytime a new council is elected you see a new crop of Escalades driven by their families.

Exile1981