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Retirees’ Editorial Committee Report
By Ken robertson
You are driving on the QEW to another
tough grind on the assembly line
and on the news you hear the gloom
and doom of the economy. Countries,
provinces, states, and cities are all in
the red. You hear the familiar cry for
restraints and cutbacks from governments
and businesses. While sitting
in traffic you hear talk show hosts and
their guests say that workers are getting
too much. Autoworkers, teachers,
postal workers, garbage collectors or
anyone making a decent wage with a
pension is a villain. By the time you
walk through the gate to help Ford
make a few more million you are depressed
about causing the collapse of
the world’s economy.
Page 28 – July – September 2011
Blame Game
Shame on The RCMP for
holding a 66 year old grandmother
for 12 days at the border because
they thought used motor oil in the
trunk of her car was heroin. Maybe the
RCMP should have used its “sniffer”
dogs. They are better trained to tell
the difference between motor oil and
heroin.
Shame on
Doug Ford for saying
he wouldn’t recognize
Margaret Atwood if
she walked by him. Mr.
Ford, it is one thing to
be arrogant and quite
another to be ignorant.
Before you head to the doctor and
get some anti-depressants, consider
this. the collapse is not your fault!
As a matter of fact, quite the opposite
is true. Financial markets and
governments need more good paying
autoworkers like yourself to stimulate
the economy with your high tax dollar,
your spending power and your ability
to create other jobs with your buying
power.
China is a world power today because
it makes everything we used to.
After the second world war, the plants
that made war machines were transformed
to make everything from cars
to chocolate bars and like China today,
the economy and middle class society
WALL OF SHAME
By Ken robertson
grew. The only recipe for success is
hard work.
The blame lies squarely at the feet
of politicians in Ottawa and Washington
who find it easier to blame the
worker driving down the highway at
6:00 a.m. than their corporate friends
demanding Free Trade deals that allow
the transfer of jobs and wealth abroad.
Thus creating the economic collapse
of our society.
In Solidarity,
Ken robertson
Shame on The CRTC (Canadian Radio,
television & Telecommunications Commission)
for following a federal government directive to
switch from analog to digital on September 01,
2011. This move will leave more than 2 million
Canadians receiving television signals from
antennas without a TV signal – another gift from
the Tories to big cable companies and satellite
providers.
Shame on
The United Nations
and all world powers for
standing by and doing
next to nothing while
millions (mostly children)
starve in Somalia.
Shame on
Integrated Quality Technologies
for abruptly laying off 1,200
workers without notice, wages
or severance while governments
in Ottawa, Ontario and Quebec
did nothing but give lip service.