Running For Office

First...I am not....running for office that is.
I would not - ever - run for office.
I am not nearly sufficiently deluded to ever
imagine that any political party would ever
have me...nor am I delisional enough to think
for a second, that I would last more than a
week as an active member of a political party.
I don't play well with weasels.
I do dream of someday having the opportunity of
voting for someone of the mind that we need to
change the way we do things. We need to be open
and up front with what we want to do and that
tax dollars have to go to the important things
first.
I found myself back on this treadmill earlier
this week. I was listening to a talk show on
radio about a group that was battling to have
cancer drugs made available to any Canadian in
need - without those already fighting the disease
of our lifetime having to face losing their homes
in order to pay for life saving pharmaceuticals.
This is a battle in my mind there should be no
need to have. Working Canadians pay sufficient tax
that health care, education ( including university ),
and maintenance of our sidewalks, roads and sewers
should be something that happens automatically with
no charge. If the question were put to Canadians
" Would you rather have free cancer treatment,
no waiting for surgery, and free education, or
a long gun registry and, for sake of an example,
the CBC, which do you think they would choose ?
How many government agencies and departments are
there without practical function except to gorge
themselves on tax dollars ? Do we need the CRTC ?
What's it's budget and how is it performing ? Do
we need industry marketing boards - and how are they
performing ? Should we be eliminating an entire level
of government in this country thus eliminating
the duplication at the Federal and Provincial government
levels ?
How much money would be saved with the elimination just
one set of elections every three or four years ? Judging
by voter turnout over the past decade would anybody even
notice ?
Voter turnout is declining because our legislators operate
without accountability. People don't beleive anything our
representatives tell us - they've stopped beleiving anything
the media reports for that very reason - and the average
Canadian just feels powerless - so the eyes have glazed
over and until they find themselves victim of the system -
they choose to just leave well enough alone.
That's why a convicted pedofile in this country gets pardonned
and no one knows. That's why a Canadian fighting for our enemies
gets eight years in jail. What ?!?! In my mind, Kotter was either
innocent and should be set free - or guilty in which case he should
have been tried as a traitor and killed. So many decisions made in
this country - no logic behind them - no common sense behind them
- no spirit of right or wrong.
These are very, very sad times we live in.
Our governments spend our money like it has no meaning...and when
Canadians as individuals need it - the government is never there
to help.
I have to go...thanks for participating in my rant.
Bless.