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6 THE RURAL VOICE
FEEDBACK
A SIGH OF RELIEF
I am writing in answer to Keith
Roulston's column, Listen to the
Message, The Rural Voice, October
1990. Now I hope with just the fall
plowing left to finish on our farm, as
with each year, when all the dangerous
outside work is done, I can give a big
sigh of relief.
I'm very thankful that another
year's work is done and no one has
had any serious accident. I agree
some of us tend to get careless in the
rush to beat mother nature's showers
etc., and I'm sure most farmers dread
the endless trips to the mills, just as
much as the few who pass the slow
vehicles, and cut back in front a bit too
close for comfort.
Speaking as a farm wife, those
women who want equal rights with
men should follow a farmer for a
week. Two days' work on most farms
would be long enough.
We enjoy The Rural Voice very
much.
Donna Corbett
R. R. 1, Exeter, Ont
LEANER AND
MEANER
In response to Jim Fitzgerald's
"Behind the Scenes," on foodbanks in
The Rural Voice, November 1990.
I would like to start with the slogan
"leaner meaner." A "leaner meaner"
society is really akin to the law of the
jungle where the fittest survive, the
rest are simply pushed aside and
sooner or later become an unbearable
burden. We in Canada are fast mo-
ving in that direction. While our poli-
ticians are speaking of a "caring so-
ciety," we are becoming intolerant.
While making laws to legislate
equality, the end result is the opposite.
One cannot legislate neighbourliness.
As we become "leaner" the inevit-
able result is "meaner." But why must
we become "leaner"? Who benefits?
Apparently the producer does not.
The worker loses his/her job. The line
to the food bank becomes ever longer.
The politician is trounced out of office
come election time. So who benefits?
The only answer I can come up
with is the financier, big business if
you will, the multinationals. How?
Through "free trade," open borders,
and allowing big business to relocate
to the cheapest labour markets without
losing its product market. (Of course
when this market dries up through
poverty, debt, what then ?) In the
short term, big business will show a
good return, a good bottom line, and
that, my dear reader, is where it's at.
That's the name of the game. The
"free" market system. The rich get
richer, the poor get poorer. And that
is really the law of the jungle, the 20th
century jungle.
So what is the solution? We need
a different kind of people in govern-
ment, wise people who are able to di-
scern what is good for all Canadians.
Let's face reality; those who've
governed this land for the past 20
years have brought Canada to the
brink of disaster.
The past 20 years of decline should
convince us that we can no more aff-
ord the huge unproductive part of our
society. Encourage gainful employ-
ment; cut back on bureaucracy. Cana-
dians must work together to turn the
tide. We must return to sanity. We
see a new tax being put upon us, the
GST. On the one hand it is needed,
however if its revenue is used to buy
more votes through handouts and
giveaways, then it will only make
things worse.
We in Canada to a large extent still
believe there is a higher being out
there, a God, a creator God if you will.
This God makes demands on us, such
as honesty, integrity, respect for life,
and the environment. We ignore these
demands at our peril. I have no doubt
that is a large part of our problem.
Sid VanderHeide
R. R. 2, Mitchell
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