Monday, August 27, 2012

What's Wrong with this Picture


There are a number of things that I question but I wonder if anyone else is asking the same thing.

       For instance, how is it possible to call the services of nurses, teachers, postal workers, paramedics, and even air line workers “essential services” but at the same time we have privatization of services like heating and electricity?  In other words, as private services the name of the game is profits first, care of public well being is not even on the agenda.  Is this what we want in our society?

       How is it possible that the powers that be can roll back the pension plans, dip into the pension funds of private corporations and basically reduce certain sectors from the retirement expectations they have worked and paid into for decades; but at the same time the same powers that be can grant themselves obscenely high retirement packages, severance packages and whatever other packages tickle their fancies?  Just how much money can the pigs at the trough gobble up – is that a question in Trivial Pursuit?  Oh that’s right, it’s an upward moving target.

       In your ideal world, what do you think would be the right amount of disparity between the privileged and the not-so-privileged?  Between the educated, under-educated and over-educated?  Between the hogs and the horses?

       Just wondering how your world is ticking along.

 

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