Lying
wide awake most of the night I had the usual jumble of thoughts in my head. When I say Usual I am talking about the New Normal
we are apparently forced to live in. I
wonder if everything that has transpired this year is simply dust in our eyes
to keep us distracted from the real issue the people of the world – the Salt of
the Earth people – are facing?
So
here it is; harassment in high places, populism in all forms and worldwide,
political correctness in extreme forms, the idiocy of the Man Who Shall Not Be
Named (good clean coal, are you kidding anyone?) and on and on it goes. I don’t care to comment on any of this right
now.
What
is really important and has been for the last decade is the ever widening gap of
the 1% and the once thriving middle class.
Oxfam just came out with the latest statistics on the money growth from
2017 and guess what, the 1% got 82% of the new money! Corporate tax evasion has never been higher
and the burden of running the country is still squarely on the shoulders of
middle class people whose income is shrinking rather than growing.
Our
finance minister is still holding his portfolio despite his breaking of the
rules regarding his wealth, our prime minister won‘t comment on the Paradise
Papers, he won’t take action on corporate pension fraud (think Sears), he talks
like all the other corporate honchos “we take harassment issues very seriously”
and I can speak from personal experience that those words are a total copout
and mean absolutely nothing. Those who
were victims in my personal experience were let go while the “perps” kept their
jobs. I’m thinking about Kent Hehr – why
is he still in caucus?
For
the last 6 months we have heard daily about some dickhead not keeping his hands
to himself but I am tired of it. I want
to hear about people’s outrage at not making ends meet while rich people and
corporations evade their civic duty in paying their GD taxes in proportion to
the money they earn. A person earning
$50,000 pays 34% in income (never mind the other things they pay for such as
CPP and EI which – having paid them – they are shamed into thinking they are “entitlements”). Corporate taxes average 20% and that is after
some incredible deductions and some corporations pay nothing because despite doing
the majority of their business in Canada they have situated their head office
in Ireland or elsewhere (Tim Hortons).
