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12 THE RURAL VOICE
The World from Mabel's Grill
"I call it revenge of the nerds,"
Cliff Murray said this morning in the
middle of a discussion over the
Hams government, its cuts and its
philosophy.
"Nerds! I wouldn't exactly call
Mike Harris
and Ernie Eves
nerds," Dave
Winston said.
"They remind
me of the guys
you went to
school with
whose father
owned the
hardware store
and they had
nice cars and
dated cheer-
leaders."
"Yeh, but
look at that
hair. They look like they're stuck in
the pre -Beatles era," said Cliff.
"What's wrong with the hair?"
George McKenzie said.
"Yeh," said Molly Whiteside as
she passed the table on the way to the
kitchen, "George used to wear his
hair like that ... when he had some."
"Well maybe nerds is the wrong
word," Cliff admiued. "But don't
these guys remind you of the kind of
dependable, dull guy who's always
the enemy of the flaky -but -cute hero
of movies? He's the One the girl's —
pardon me, Molly — the woman's
always turning to when the hero has
been too unpredictable. But we know
that he's not really the guy to be
admired, despite his good steady job,
his nice home and his nice cars,
because the hero is always making
jokes about his uncool sweaters or
his hair."
"And in the end," put in Hank
Vanderplast, "the woman always
realizes that life is going to be so
much more interesting with the flaky
guy and she throws over the good
steady guy for the flake."
"Exactly," said Cliff. "So after 30
years of being ridiculed and not
getting the girl, these guys are now in
power and they're going to do things
their way."
"And the flaky guys can starve
because they never bothered to get a
good steady job," said Dave.
"Or because they got a cushy
government job that meant they
didn't have to work nights and
weekends like the guy in his dad's
hardware stores."
"What bothers me is that they
seem to have a philosophy that will
mean the rich will get richer and the
poor, poorer," said Hank.
"But 50 per cent of the people
support them," George reminded.
"They're the 50 per cer.t who
think they'll be richer," Dave said.
"If they thought they were going to
be the ones living in poverty, they
mightn't like the policies so much."
"So what's wrong with poverty?"
George wondered. "Poverty makes
people change. If they'd had a
comfortable welfare state in Britain
150 years ago, Canada would still be
bush today. Nobody was going to
suffer on a cattle boat for weeks
coming across, then trek through the
bush for weeks and start cutting
acres of trees with an axe if they
didn't think things would eventually
be better than what they left behind."
"Ah," said Dave, "so we can
expect the poor people to be loading
themselves into rusty old boats to
ship out to a new promised land."
"Well, would you have been here
today if things had been good for
your parents in Holland after the
war?" George asked Hank.
Hank admitted he wouldn't, but
he wondered where the new
promised land was supposed to be?
"The business -types are all excited
about investing in China but I don't
think they're exactly looking for
more people."
"Well at least they can move
within Canada," George said. "I
mean it's stupid to keep cooking the
unemployment insurance system so
people can stay in Newfoundland
where there are no jobs. Now we're
training them for jobs that aren't
there. If they'd go to B.C. or Alberta
where the economy is booming, we
could get rid of the whole problem."
"I'm going to get a motor home
franchise," Dave said. "I figure
people are going to be so busy
rushing back and forth across the
country looking for the latest place
with jobs that they'll never be able to
settle down in real houses."0