I stare at the screen…mind, a blank. Is it the Friday syndrome? Perhaps it's just that not to much has happened to me in the last twenty-four hours. My life has periods like that: boring. My attention wanders, and I can't even read for a very long time. Angry Birds becomes my challenging limit.
I managed to get my juices flowing last evening by sitting down to write to my MP. He's a smiling and compliant back-bencher, who rises to make scripted comments every once in awhile, mostly for the benefit of the folks at home. They recruited him young - late 30' - and he'll be there for another twenty years, the way our constituency votes. A havk is what he is, a party hack, guaranteed a very fat pension while he votes on "pension reform" for the rest of us. (Pension reform means cutting bck the age for Old Age Supplement from 65 to 67 years. Future plans will cut the Canada Pension Plan benefits.)
Ah, there, the blood is flowing now, and the mind is focused. These days i have no trouble getting exercised aboit politics provincially or federally. I grew ro maturity in a time when compassion and concern for the disadvantaged and youth was much higher on the political agenda than today. Oh, I'm sure the more liberal governments of the past had their share of corruption and self-serving actions. But today's majority in our Commons is narrow minded and mean spirited in the extreme. The concern for those down the ladder is so manifestly NOT there! And it troubles me a lot. I live in a part of the country that benefits BIG TIME from the Tar sands boom, and the only concern is that the rich flow of cash (6 figures for people with very little education) continue. Huge support for pipelines south and west. No apparent awareness of the dangers inherent in passing lines through sensitive wilderness, near prime aquifers.
As you can see, I get passionate. I think the point that helps me get excited is that our leaders appear to care so little what we say, that they don't hear us - well, they don't listen. Anyway, we have a Provincial election upcoming before June, so there should be opportunities to make our voices (my voice) heard.
I managed to get my juices flowing last evening by sitting down to write to my MP. He's a smiling and compliant back-bencher, who rises to make scripted comments every once in awhile, mostly for the benefit of the folks at home. They recruited him young - late 30' - and he'll be there for another twenty years, the way our constituency votes. A havk is what he is, a party hack, guaranteed a very fat pension while he votes on "pension reform" for the rest of us. (Pension reform means cutting bck the age for Old Age Supplement from 65 to 67 years. Future plans will cut the Canada Pension Plan benefits.)
Ah, there, the blood is flowing now, and the mind is focused. These days i have no trouble getting exercised aboit politics provincially or federally. I grew ro maturity in a time when compassion and concern for the disadvantaged and youth was much higher on the political agenda than today. Oh, I'm sure the more liberal governments of the past had their share of corruption and self-serving actions. But today's majority in our Commons is narrow minded and mean spirited in the extreme. The concern for those down the ladder is so manifestly NOT there! And it troubles me a lot. I live in a part of the country that benefits BIG TIME from the Tar sands boom, and the only concern is that the rich flow of cash (6 figures for people with very little education) continue. Huge support for pipelines south and west. No apparent awareness of the dangers inherent in passing lines through sensitive wilderness, near prime aquifers.
As you can see, I get passionate. I think the point that helps me get excited is that our leaders appear to care so little what we say, that they don't hear us - well, they don't listen. Anyway, we have a Provincial election upcoming before June, so there should be opportunities to make our voices (my voice) heard.
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