Lying Awake and Getting Cheesed Off

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).