How our system is: exploitive, unstable, divisive?

BY STEVEN KASZAB

Flying in and to Labrador, Newfoundland and many other parts of Canada has increased 33-50% over the past year. If you happen to have a crisis, such as an emergency, the airlines show little latitude for your needs and plans. Death in the family, or someone needs you presently may simply be not enough for price reductions, or immediate flights. This is a continual problem for many of us hoping to travel within our own nation. Examples of properly priced flights can be seen in America, and the EU where you can fly from one large urban center to another at much lower prices than here in Canada.

Why are we being charged these high costs?

Canada is a very large place. So is the EU, and America yet their prices are far lower than Canadian airlines.

The cost of fuel has skyrocketed. This we know. Perhaps bringing about some efficiencies will drive down their costs. This does not mean laying off needed employees, not offering any service without a price tag, or shrinking the space a passenger will be seated in.

The federal government continues its corporate welfare state policy giving and sometimes lending corporations like the airlines multi-millions of dollars to shorten their corporate accounts. If these businesses would run their business properly, not giving themselves executive raises while keeping the working person down and out. I may not complain about our federal government’s handouts, but as you know there is no real transparency or accountability when it comes to our private, or public corporations’ procedures. So yes, why must the public face shrinkation and increase prices while corporate hacks live the life of Riley.

Many of the new aircrafts ordered by WestJet and Air Canada have smaller spaces for the economy class, slightly larger spaces for the first and business class. This shrinkage can be felt elsewhere within our marketplace as well. Smaller packages for food while the prices increase. One day I expect to buy a dozen eggs and when I open the crate there will be only eleven…the new dozen.

Use medicine for erection dysfunction? There is a new branding going on these days, where pharmaceutical firms have introduced high power medications, while the ordinary, original medication’s potency has been lessened. Talk about shrinkage eh! Oh yes, the prices have also gone up, unlike the users of these medications.

Prices increase, size of products shrink, costs for these products increase 10% while the sale price increases by 33%+. Seems unfair right? Who ever said the marketplace must be fair? No one except for those without the money. As long as

our economic system remains centered upon profitability, usury, harvesting our resources, and reselling at massive profits. We are doomed to rely upon the government for consumer protection, as the private sector cares little for yes, the “little fellow.”

Our economic system makes our political system rock and roll. Economics = socio-political high- jinks. Our system is: exploitive, unstable, divisive and no friend to equality of any kind. It erodes our human rights, is undemocratic, and friends to authoritarian personalities and nations alike. It is one thing to make something of yourself in business, but not upon the back of others.

Why does it cost a Canadian family $2,611.00 monthly.  A couple living in Toronto averages $3,326.50 monthly, while the apartment they are renting, having one-bedroom costs on average $1,667.33 monthly. Outside urban centers average $1,449.00 monthly. Accommodation, food, clothing, healthcare, travel and transportation all drive the public’s expectations downward into the dust. Owning a home in Ontario is a dream most have, but few will realize for decades to come. Why is this happening folks?

You’re letting it happen. Your trust in the system allows it to rule you, push you around, misinform and manipulate you daily. John Lennon once sang “You say you want a revolution; you know we all want to change the world.” Only an eco-political revolution can change what will happen economically and financially to you today and tomorrow.

So, you say you want a change in Canada. Only sacrifice can accomplish change, so figure it out, before the man comes knocking at your door”.