Lip service, arrogent elected officials

Both our countries, America and Canada, are doing the world a huge disservice by putting incalculably obscene huge profits ahead of humanities future. We cater, no, cater is too soft of a word, we take corporations junk right up the behind and are told that if the corporation is healthy then we are through the trickle down effect. Bullshit! Up in Canada, a former finance minister by the name of Paul Martin told the country that tax cuts for the people were a bad, bad thing and we swallowed it, we then elected him Prime Minister. We just got a Harmonized sales Tax rammed down our throats, our electrical grid in Ontario is now privatized, and that did not work out so well in Nova Scotia, British Columbia and your own California, but did that stop it from happening? Nope! We are cutting back on noxious emission controls, by which our environmental watchdog had no teeth to enforce anyway. Why keep up the expensive pretense of being “green”?

One former Prime Minister, Brian Mulrooney, was recorded showing the most disdainful arrogence towards the citizens who elected him, calling us brainless sheep. (Not quite those words, but they'll do. And we are sheep. Our national police force, the much vaunted RCMP laid corruption charged against him while he was Prime Minister and he laid a 5 million dollar lawsuit on them. All charges were dropped. Do you realize how sure, how positive a cop would have to be to level such charges against a national leader? I would say very sure. But we the sheeple of Canada bought it. BTW, his German partner in crime was convicted and sentenced for bribery, but no recipient of the bribes were ever brought to justice. The next Prime Minister issued Brian Mulrooney The "Order of Canada", our highest honour towards heroes and outstanding citizenz. It is a worthless medallion now as far as I'm concerned.
Brian Mulrooney is the poster child for all that is wrong in todays politics.....Allan