POLITICS REMAIN THE ART OF SCREWING THE MASSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FEW

O.K. maybe there is about to be a turnaround here. Usually I refer to teachers as spoiled, unappreciative and overpaid. Ah hell let's stick with that. But... at the same time you should hear about teachers' status, wages and standard of living around the world. U.S. teachers get little respect and a whole lot less money. In Scotland where my daughter has been recently the wages for teachers are bad. Now part of this reflects the fact that the Scottish economy consists of sheep, tourism, abandoned coal mines and distillerys. Ouch!

Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys this opinion of Thomas Walkom titled "Tories low-wage goal still in place". Mr. Walkom suggests that recent back pedalling by the Conservatives on their programs to undermine Canadian workers are merely temporary. High immigration, foreign workers programs, outsourcing of jobs to low wage countries are all part of the Conservatives plan to lower domestic wages. Two days ago I posted here quoting the Canadian Chamber of Commerce suggesting that their interests weren't the same as those of working Canadians. Clearly Canadaian business have the ear of the Conservative party whereas labour does not. This would include teachers by the way. Our provincial Tories are just chomping at the bit in their frenzy to kick Ontario teachers back into the stone ages. You would think the Teachers' Unions would keep that spectre front and centre and strive to make nice with the Liberals and the NDP.

Regardless what do you think of a national party whose primary objective is the lowering of the living standard for most citizens? This of course is with the raising of the living standard of the chosen few. Wow! No wonder money flows to the Tories from those chosen few plus unfortunately many others who are ill informed. You know politics is a dirty business. Maybe the Tories simply need to broaden their horizons, promise teachers the sun and moon and then enjoy the financial fruits of the very well off teachers retirement funds. Once again it's politics of the cannibalistic kind. If you can't improve everybody's wealth in today's economy then pick your friends and shaft everybody else.