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10 THE RURAL VOICE
Jeffrey Carter
Absurdities in high
places
Jeffrey
Carter is a
freelance
journalist
based in
Dresden,
Ontario.
Many things in this old world just
do not make sense to folks raised in
places where the realities of life are
apparent. For these people, it's
evident that the actions one takes
have consequences.
Farmers live and work close to
life. To plant a field of barley when
the soil isn't fit or to fail to provide
the basic necessities to livestock is
to invite disaster. Alternatively, when
an effort is made to do things right,
chances of success are improved
exponentially.
It boils down, to a large degree, to
common sense. Sadly, this has been
lacking in places where it's.most
needed.
Consider, for instance, the gun
registry program in Canada. The
estimated cost of the program was $2
million. Estimates of the actual cost
range from $700 million to $2 billion.
At $2 billion, it would be 1,000 -fold
cost overrun.
In all likelihood, the cost of the
program was intentionally
underestimated, perhaps to belay
initial criticism. That still leaves a
100 -fold cost overrun.
Naturally, the gun owners
themselves have been blamed for
intentionally submitting erroneous
forms and tossing similar
impediments into the wheels
of government. Yet the weight of
blame does not belong on the gun
owners.
The program design was
essentially tlawed. Perhaps
government bureaucrats saw the gun
registry as a means to generate a
little work for themselves.
Unfortunately, there was a snowball
effect and the thing got out of hand.