Political Science Dreamer Or Once Around The Bend
Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 12:37 PM
[General]
Now that I have written about eighty to eighty-five blogs here, I have one to write about Moi.I have always been a pie-in-the-sky dreamer but everything I have dreamed of and put forth in poly sci seems to have been taken by my betters and parsed and re-vamped until a true horror story has taken place.It appears I am quite taken by stories such as "The Last Vice-Roy" and other idyllic ways of colonizing far away warm lands with balmy breezes and afternoon teas, lemonade on the lawn and regulation summer white wardrobes, and grand balls in the cool evening.I wanted the concept of off-shore labour to take Canadians who would like a tenure or sabbatical and pay them at Canadian rates while allowing them to enjoy holiday conditions for life if they wished on the other side of the world so that the "graveyard shift" wouldn't have to be worked by so many.Instead my betters have thought of earning our own Establishment more lucre by paying pesos to peons. Those few persons overseas who can overcome accents somewhat are chosen to deliver a diatribe to Anglophones living in the rat race in our large cities. They consume our valuable time and energy saying a lot of nothing and trying, at least, my patience.My original concept of shipping Arctic and Athabasca tar sand oil southward even into the United States as we, Canadians and Americans tend to live in regions divided by north-south divisonal lines. I had hoped to conserve our most precious ecology by suggesting continuous trains containing only tanks of oil to prevent spilling of all but one tank at a time so that we would ruin less wildlife and vegetation when an accident occurred. With all due respect to engineers of all kinds, the powers that be found a continuous and often continuously leaking pipeline in one place or another more economical and employed only those needed for the task itself.Now, I realize I was quite counterproductive but dreamed on instead.So our world turns as it usually has over the long millenia paying and playing only to its immediate manager and professionals.I have long known that not only can professionals save enough to re-train, win scholarships with their existing credentials and know how to survive whereas the burdensome lot of the labourer is to be laid off immediately as the work requirements change and sit painfully sore on UIC then next the local dole system. It was the latter I felt needed some protection to enhance the quality of life in our national mosaïc of vigourous happy Canadians earning their living to which I thought some thought should be given. However, "when times were good", the interest rates went up to twenty per cent for a larger amount of latent money held only by the upper half of the social pyramid. Happy were we with monies Granny had left us. "Everyone" was employed.Now, frigid spinsters who inherited the family wealth and management who have long braced themselves against unproductive labour, sputter "bums" at those they have almost disenfranchised in self-defense to keep abreast with their peers.It seemed we were more afraid of foreign takeovers until we sent them off-shore work and unemployed out own people plus we are faced with refugees beyond belief. They are changing our fabric of life rapidly and we must be aware, politically correct, and be insulted that our English, and I was bornand educated in English Canada, is not understandable.The strangest part of all this is our resolute, wealthy, long-time bachelor and former Prime Minister, the late Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who wanted what I wanted but he wanted it NOW so that those of his own time could see prosperity a little more even distributed throughout the Third World as "we (Canada) have so much and so little of it has even been touched".Apparently, the marketing specialists had other ideas to give some of us what we wanted but make the rest of us burn as "bums"!Quite apparently, there weren't enough generous thinkers left after the Economics and Marketing courses were taught without spreading the wealth without leaving bare spots in our own land.Now, I have noticed that the United States rose to be the most powerful nation in the world by protecting its borders and own people jealously until a national spirit was born and kept. I often wished Canada could be the same about its own protection but alas our population exists for the main part only a certain "strip" along the this side of the American border.We have NAFTA but how we bicker amongst ourselves. We don't stand a chance. Even banning the import of American beef products in retalliation, we leave our own cat hungering after certain brands of Beef Flavour I greatly suspect smell of catnip or something delicious to cats.If we consider off-shore labour as a countermeasure to NAFTA, it certainly has worked that way. For every redhat item I have purchased from America outside of California which I understand has an early Agreement with Ontario, I have had to pay Monsieur Le Douanier quite a bit due to the fact that the items are made abroad then sent to America before we in Canada innocently purchase them.You would think the rest of the world had thought of off-shore labour, not North Americans with capitalist principles!Well, my friends, were we too prosperous and growing too fat off the land? Nonsense! Historians will teach that decadence follows success.Do any of my friends have any thoughts on this without creating cottage industry crafts? That should be reserved only for the talented and skilled."In the meantime, in between time, ain't we got fun!" we Redhatters shall "skid into our graves, piece of Belgian chocolate in one hand, a glass of French wine in the other," for what can we do "when times get rough" but party on. Woo-Eee!