Juggling road apples

It appears that playing politics must be really difficult. On the one hand you promise cheaper or even free education, then on the other you think the schools are over-funded. Obviously, not having the students pay for school would mean that the money has to come from somewhere, this is not rocket science. It's a well known fact that you can't please all the people all the time, and the more you try, the more people you piss off with the juggling act. Especially when you promise two exact opposites in the same week.

Who would you kill for a Klondike bar?

Are we supposed to be surprised that Canadian income inequality and poverty is growing? Probably not. We tend to follow the U.S. pretty closely, and they have plummeted even further down this 'report' than we have, so I doubt we're anywhere near finished this descent. I am pretty sure most of us feel the same thing happening to us: we make less than we did, or at minimum, our grocery carts, rents/mortgages, and gas tanks cost a larger percentage of our take-home pay. It's all fine and well that the government looks after the poorest among us, but, if they continue to not look out for the rest of us, we'll all be the poorest, and then there will be no money to look after any of us. The math is pretty simple really, any% of nothing equals nothing so it doesn't really matter what the tax rate is at that late stage in the game. That doesn't mean that I approve of those out there who feel so hopelessly dependant on the government that they will sue them for even more.

Foreign companies favouring foreign workers over local workers is akin to thumbing their noses at us while their other hand is still in our wallet. It's easy enough to get away with when you front-load the system and give too many rights to corporations, it's even easier when the media isn't fact checking or figuring out how many millions there are in 38 thousand. Who am I trying to kid, it isn't like the government to take a stand for the people unless it's the people who can finance or even rig their next campaign.

We are not 'the people'.
We haven't been 'the people' in many years.

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It's been a couple of days since one of my YouTube subscriptions passed away. So I thought maybe a memorial service would be appropriate.