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The attack on young Canadians

06/23/2011 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

Canadian kidsBy Montreal Simon

If you want to survive Canada’s Summer of Anger, there are two subjects you absolutely must NOT discuss with your fellow hosers.

One . . . who is to blame for the Vancouver riot? Because chances are you’ll have to listen to some deranged rant about how young people are inherently dumb and dangerous. How they HUMILIATED Canada. And how they should be shamed, jailed, whipped, and their lives ruined FOREVER.

Which can ruin your day eh?

And two . . . anything to do with the postal lockout.

Because then you might have to listen to a lengthy and foamy diatribe about how those unionized workers are lazy, greedy, PARASITES, who are giving themselves juicy pensions with OUR tax dollars. And how DARE they have a pension when I don’t ???!!!

When in fact:

(1) The postal service workers make millions and millions of dollars in PROFIT for the government. They don’t depend on the largesse of taxpayers, and the only people that do are the ones with the best performing pensions in the country.

(2) The attempt to create two kinds of workers at Canada Post is part of a larger campaign to do away with pensions altogether, and an all out assault on the rights of young Canadians.

The CEOs have decided. The value of young people is lower than the value of people from my generation. You don’t deserve the same salary, even if you are better educated. You don’t deserve the same vacation time or health benefits. And you certainly don’t deserve to have the same kind of secure retirement. It’s just not in the business plan.

(3) Stephen Harper and his Cons are out to destroy public pensions, and what’s left of the union movement in Canada. Because for them and the big business porkers, pensions are SOCIALISM. And unions are The Enemy.

And they know that if young Canadians are barely able to support themselves, they’ll be less likely to join a union, and less able or willing to support the elderly.

So we’ll ALL suffer, the race to the bottom will continue, and people will end up gnawing on each other in the darkness of a capitalist jungle. While the fat cats look down on us from their fortresses or their executive jets, rattle their jewels, swill their champagne, and laugh their porky asses off.

Which is when I start thinking of what happened in Vancouver. And wonder what might happen when young Canadians realize that their future has been stolen, their planet has been torched. And find a REAL reason to riot . . .

Jim-Chu

But for Godzilla’s sake, whatever you do, don’t mention that to anyone you don’t know really well eh? Or you might be attacked or publicly SHAMED.

Even though that won’t change the truth: Or there will be justice, or there will be trouble.

And this too is true:

If you are under the age of 35, pay close attention. Your standard of living, and that of your children, is being decided right now in the boardroom, the workplace and even on the picket line. Sooner rather than later, you will need to pick a side.

We are heading for an ideological and generational struggle the likes of which most Canadians can’t even IMAGINE.

The Cons and their corporate masters are preparing to wage war on young and old Canadians.

And it IS time to pick sides.

Play it again Billy . . .

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, Canada Post, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Stephen Harper, Vancouver

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  1. Yahya Abdul Rahman says

    06/24/2011 at 4:39 am

    Take a look at this excellent article also:

    http://www.behindthenumbers.ca/2011/06/22/the-attack-on-workers-backsliding-into-the-future/

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