2007 Ends, Recalls Continue
Ian @ December 31, 2007 # One Comment
When Greed replaces Ethics, the result is a wave of unsafe products. There is no longer any moral code to hold back the Corporate Elite from filling store shelves with dangerous products. Unsafe goods are knowingly sold, due to the insatiable desire for higher returns, greater bonuses, than in offering quality goods to the consumer. Government is doing little, to insure the safety of the consumer, other than consumer alerts, recalls, after the fact.
Just how much money does a CEO need? Politicians talk a lot about ‘family values’ but where are they when it comes to protecting the average consumer? Or is that not part of their concept of what ‘family values’ are about?
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Keep Profits High
Ian @ December 31, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The role of Government is to Govern, not to insure increased profits for Conglomerate’s such as the Health Insurance Industry. It isn’t their job to make CEO’s richer by denying health care to children, yet that is exactly what both sides have done. The current leadership in the USA is more concerned about fueling the profits of Big Business, than about insuring that children who need it, can gain access to health care.
For fear of hurting those Industry Giants who decide what treatment you can have or not, President Bush and Congress accepted a watered down health care bill for children. So much for caring about the future. The only Future Bush and Congress care about is their own retirement nest egg. All courtesy of SPECIAL INTERESTS.
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What We Have Stooped To.
Ian @ December 30, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The dirty tricks are ramping up, and it is no wonder that one of the first real targets deals with Religion. Whatever happened to the concept that people are free to worship as they please? To believe as they wish? Should it really matter if Mormons believe this or that, and if it does, then how can a society claim to be free from religious intolerance? Isn’t it the religious diversity that is supposed to make a nation great?
Or perhaps the problem is that politics today isn’t about governing for all, but about special interest groups having a leg up on the others. That maybe today it is more about money, greed, power, than it is about serving the public?
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Price of Democracy
Ian @ December 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Call it what you want, Assassination or Black Ops or Suicide Bombings, the fact is, it is MURDER. We can gloss it over by giving it less harsh sounding names, but it is MURDER and we know it in our hearts. Yet we forget, that those who are MURDERED had a dream, and while we Riot, while we take political or economical advantage of these Murders, we are also desecrating the memory of those who have fallen. We are ignoring what they stood for, and died for when we give in to the Politics of it all. Democracy is not cheap, and Benazir Bhutto has paid the price, now the question is, will we step up and show her the honor deserved, by continuing to fight for Democracy?
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Canadians Get It, Does Harper?
Ian @ December 28, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The War on Terror is more about George Bush and Stephen Harper appeasing their Corporate Masters, than it is about protecting the countries they lead. The failed policies of George Bush, followed by Stephen Harper, continue to run unchecked, and are coming close to costing us victory in the War on Terror. The lines are blurred, to where you can’t tell the good guy from the bad guy, all because George Bush hasn’t a clue.
Worse is that Stephen Harper can see those policies are failing, but he stands with his Master, defending them and blaming the people for not understanding. Fact is, the people do understand, and they do not support the current mission, because it is doomed to failure. The War on Terror begins with winning the people over, not in how many of the enemy you kill on the battlefields. It is about how many schools you build, and KEEP STANDING that will determine the outcome of this war on Terror. Jean Chretien got it years ago, as did Paul Martin. Stephen Harper still hasn’t tweaked to it, and it is doubtful he ever will, as long as he is George Bush’s toady.
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Tory Mis Information
Ian @ December 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet
In an effort to scare people, the Harper regime is looking for more money, even though they have out raised the others, by as much as four to one, but hey, they need all the money to combat the vested interests that support the other parties. You know, the average voter. After all, they can’t let down their corporate masters and get defeated for proposing laws that benefit corporate profits, while sacrificing our safety, our health, or our educations.
Simple truth is that the Harper Government is more secretive than any other administration, and continues to hide the truth. Yet this is the same government that pledged to be more open, more accountable. Yet it is their candidates who have abused the election laws, by claiming expenses for repayment, that are false claims.
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Saving Money & Health Care
Ian @ December 26, 2007 # No Comment Yet
A novel approach to saving money, while maintaining high care standards seems to actually be working. The novel concept is to work with the patient, in assisting in their health care through monitoring and providing detailed understandable instructions. Isn’t it about time that Doctors stopped pretending they were GOD and actually worked as healers? While this approach rewards those groups financially, shouldn’t the concept of providing the best care be already in place?
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Change of View
Ian @ December 25, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Mitt Romney may be belief in something, but what it is seems to be in a constant state of flux. One minute he supports the right of women to choose, then when it become more politically expedient to oppose it, he does. And he does so with vigor too, just as his stance on Equal Rights has flip flopped. In fact, his entire set of core beliefs has changed dramatically, and seems to have happened after he lost as running under the Democratic Banner.
One has to wonder, is his core beliefs more dependent not on what HE himself believes in, but in what he feels will get him elected? And how does that fit with being a religious soul? How can he claim a deep religious belief, when the core of beliefs is subject to the test of ‘electability’ rather than the test of ‘faith’?
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Do Tax Cuts Help?
Ian @ December 24, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Harper is supposed to be an Economist, yet he didn’t take into account the falling US Dollar, or the High Loonie. Now he has failed to take into account the loss in revenue due to his supposed tax cuts. Makes you wonder what else is Stephen Harper missing, when it comes to leading? Is he ignoring the rising cost of Fuel because he is simply stupid, or is it because his Corporate Masters are telling him to ignore it? Failing to take it into account is going to effect our economic growth, any person with a brain will know that.
Why doesn’t Stephen Harper?
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When Insurance Agents Decide…
Ian @ December 23, 2007 # One Comment
When do politicians stop pandering to the camera, and start representing the people who vote for them?
Maybe National Health sounds wrong, but who do you want in charge of your health care, a Doctor or an Insurance Agent? So far, it has been Insurance Agents, and the bottom line that determines what treatments you can get or not , unless you have the cash to pay for it. Is that really how people want to live? Not one US Politician has come forward to support a true National Health Plan, as it would harm their Corporate Masters.
A Doctor or an Insurance Agent? Who do you want deciding?
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Caving in to George Bush Special Interests
Ian @ December 22, 2007 # No Comment Yet
There is little doubt that bit by bit, Stephen Harper and his Regime, are attempting to remove any protection Canadians have to be safe, to be entitled to privacy. The latest gimmick by the Harper Regime is to claim it wants to protects us poor authors, musicians, and actors, by making our Copyright Laws meet USA Standards. The same standards that strip citizens of the right to privacy. As a writer I willingly give up the right to make more money, as I want to have my Right to Privacy. Specially when faced by the policies and actions of the world’s modern day Nazi’s, like Bush and Harper Conservatives.
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Recalls - December 20
Ian @ December 20, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The list just seems to keep on growing. Day after day, there are more product recalls for lead contamination, improper switches, fire hazards, or choking hazards. Companies make last minute recalls, long after the fact and the Government does virtually nothing. The CPSC can’t even ORDER A RECALL. And we all suffer, even in Canada, thanks to the Conservative concept of ‘faith based trading’ that gives carte blanche to companies to import dangerous goods, then pass them on to us, thinking of only their increased profit margins.
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The Mortgage Nightmare
Ian @ December 20, 2007 # One Comment
The looming mortgage crisis is one brought about by the insane drive for De-Regulation. It is one of the lynch pins of what today’s Conservatives are based on, and the effect is that without those controls, shady practices abound. The entire mortgage crisis exists because there is NO REGULATIONS, no PROTECTION.
Sometimes you need Government Regulation, to protect the unwary, the naive. Doing so avoids the risk of future Government Bail Outs, that are far more costly than insuring proper protection at the start. Setting down ground rules is not about big government, but about protecting people from the less than honest citizens. We don’t insist that when crimes of violence occur, that the victim seek redress by personally incarcerating the offender, nor do we condone murder, yet we seem reluctant to apply that same sense of protection in other areas of our lives. A crook is a crook, whether white collar or not.
It is the role of Government to serve OUR interests, not those of Big Business.
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Huckabee - Digging the Dirt Up
Ian @ December 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
When does being a parent end? Is it when you become a Politician or when you die? Which is more important, doing what a father should do for their family, or ignoring the family needs and doing what is best for the larger group you represent? An interesting conundrum for those seeking office, while professing to be role models for ethics and family values.
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Add More Recalls
Ian @ December 18, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Who ultimately is responsible for the safety of goods being sold? Is it the exporting country, the importing country government, the business importing the goods, the foreign company making the goods, or the consumer? The way so many items enter the country with serious safety and health risks, it would seem to be the obligation of the Consumer to protect themselves. Maybe we should simple BOYCOTT such companies, and from the wide range of companies that seem to have no ethics, no morals, we could be SAVING A LOT OF MONEY.
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