As stupid as the elite think you are.

This post will seem choppy as it has been hacked to pieces.

I have mentioned before how the powers that be cajole us into thinking everything is OK.
Mr Jim Flaherty Minister of Money has said that job numbers are job numbers and if they are increasing we should be happy no matter what type of employment is offered.
Of course he has his head up his ass depending on your personal financial situation.

But this post is more of a question rather than a statement, unfortunately it has turned into a series of questions, I'm not expecting any answers.

If in Ontario you lose a large amount of good paying jobs and then have a bunch of low paying retail jobs to replace those jobs lost then who in the end is going to buy the lattes, yoga pants, iphones, etc that ur supposed to be selling?

So this brings me to an article written by a university grad with a history major.

This person should have done a bit more research into her career path but, as she maintains, when she started 4 years hence it looked like a viable career.
This is what I had written about a few posts back saying that this insistence that someone somewhere KNOWS what number of nurses, teachers, bus drivers or whatever are going to be needed is hooooey, it's a number for now and can't tell you what will be in 4 years time.

A teacher in Edmonton thinks the path that the board of education is not correct and so disobeys his employer and does it his way.
Everyone is polarized on the issue of grading and completion of work assignments.

The students in Montreal are rioting because of more than the issues we see in the headlines.

Bill C-38, it has all the makings of what is in store for us through our own lack of will.
We are quickly lining up with every other industrialized country in the world in the way we are giving power to non representative entities who have no other motivation to function besides profit.

Look for crowd sourcing somewhere in the platform of any party you look at.
This age of the internet can allow all of us to have input to the policies, laws, bills, etc that have a bearing on our lives should be in a truly public forum.

We all feel as though we are somewhat powerless.
Who started the rumor that your vote is useless?
Do you remember?
That feeling by and large has been propagated by the very people who we feel are in power whom we feel are immovable for some they seem infallible.  
For all a very clever, very dangerous clown!

When I say 
WE 
I mean everyone
and 
WE
have to start thinking less in terms of 
us and them.

This is a feedback loop of non trust that eventually
(we are there) leads to taking "them" out of your
conscience. That leads to not taking in let alone react to policies, bills, laws that affect you and I.
But these policy makers are a long way from us, they are so far removed from our reality that we feel we couldn't possibly make a difference.
This has happened with power brokers and oven stokers alike it is a shame that so few
can ruin something which has such potential for good.
The few who've ruined it are the ones who are controlling things for us, WE let these people ride over us by becoming less and less active. Why this happened would be a subject broad enough for a whole book and I'm sure someone like Noam Chomsky has covered it already.
WE have to become at least active in voting, the very least YOU can do is to put an x on the ballot.
I agree that the mainstream parties are all pretty much the same but we have other choices.
In our country we have The Green Party and the NDP not to mention provincial parties that are not mainstream.
This is so much more vibrant than the USA but we will lose the wonderful political landscape if we
Don't
STOP thinking that it is some mark of pride, some rule of the proletariat that you mustn't vote.
The vote is only wasted when it isn't used, when you don't use it you're not being smart just smug and really dumb,
as stupid as the elite think you are.