Calling all impending seniors! According to Mr. Harper we are all simply pawns to his desire to become one of the rich and infamous! We are now only poker chips in a ruthless game of power among the rich and the privileged!
At the recent elitist World Economic Forum in Davos, a poker game where to gain a seat you have to be not just rich but filthy- filthy rich, Stephen Harper pulled out a stinker! He didn’t even get off his chair, he simply lifted one haunch and spouted about how it was now necessary for all Canadians to work an extra two years before they can collect their old age pension! No debate, no tabled motion, only a blank, sanctimonious, knee jerk announcement.
He leaned across the table and pushed in his pile of chips (read: we sixty something citizens) to assert himself among the other players as a man of power, a man of influence, a man who sees nothing but the pot, the prize, the global economy and the old boys club of capitalistic desperadoes who care nothing for our quality of life unless it benefits them!
Just like the infamous Bourbon king of France, Louis XVI, Harper is raising the price of bread, ignoring the people and feathering his own nest at our expense. Will he wait until he is sixty seven to get his pension? Will his pension be $450 a month? Has he worked all his life only to be told that he has to wait two more years to claim what has been mandated to be his at the age of sixty five?
I think he is naively overbetting. I think he has forgotten that many of his colleagues at that card table see a broader ambition, not just the pot in front of our myopic leader, but the fact that the more he gives away to them, the richer they become.
Harper is being led down a garden path, following a trail of Marie Antoinette cake crumbs, selling off his people’s welfare as the fat cats of the world stuff their pockets and watch the world fall into ruin.
What comes next? What will the next pot contain? More cheap oil as WE pay more and more here at home? Perhaps our water is to be next, sloshed onto the table as another naïve attempt to insinuate himself into the big boys league?
The global economy is not about people, it is about making a few people very rich at our expense. The sixty something citizens of this country deserve more than that.
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