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Nipawin - December 14, 2000 - by: Mario deSantis | |
fix health |
Minister of Health Pat Atkinson is still looking on how to fix health care(1), and she has been |
looking for a fix for some years now, and her researchers and consultants have not found the | |
right fix yet. After so many big studies and big researches on health care, the only thing left | |
to do is to fix the minds of our incompetent leaders and researchers. | |
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no big |
There is no big fix for anything, the fix is only found in healthier community, and as long as |
health care specialists and workers leave the province along with the healthier and youngest | |
labour force, there will not be a fix for either health care or for our social and economic | |
predicament. | |
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autocratic leadership |
Pat Atkinson blames the world wide shortage of nurses for the recent closure of hospital beds |
and cancellation of surgeries(2), yet we have had in Saskatchewan a decadent economy, an | |
oppressive autocratic leadership, an unconstitutional and phony government; a government | |
which breaks its own laws and encourages the abuses of basic human rights through a | |
conspiracy of silence, intimidation and legal delays on behalf of the few and privileged. | |
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people |
We have reiterated and we will never get tired to say that the problem in health care is the same |
as the problem in any other social and economic environment. The basic problem is the lack | |
of our willingness to recognize that the most important wealth of the province is in its people | |
and that creation of wealth cannot be disassociated from the educational and civil growth of | |
our people. | |
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jungle |
There is no quick fix for health care, there is no quick fix for education, there is no quick fix |
for our poor, and there will not be a quick fix for anything else unless our leadership stops | |
to serve itself at the expense of our future, that is at the expense of the growing number of our | |
underprivileged children. We need a change of mind for tackling our social challenges, and | |
we need to have a government which stops its lies to its people. And as long as we have a | |
leadership composed of copycats interested more to serve themselves and their friends, this | |
same leadership will do anything to sustain itself and they will continue to lie and shift the | |
blame of our social challenges to outside factors. Our current leadership is the degeneration | |
of a mental jungle ruled by static, linear behemoths that see little more than one-way chains | |
of logic, correlation, and perhaps an occasional vicious circle(3). | |
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1980 |
The world is round and diverse, our social relationships should follow the natural and creative |
growth for both our individual self and social settings, and instead our leadership is reinforcing | |
a privileged economic growth and further divide our people, geographically, politically, | |
educationally, culturally, and economically. And today I came to know that in a span of | |
fifteen years, between 1980 and 1995, the eight largest cities experienced a further increase | |
in the income gap between the rich and poor neighborhoods(4). Not taking into account the | |
people who are disenfranchised, and not taking into account the unemployed, the employment | |
earnings in the poorest neighborhoods declined between 11% and 33%. In contrast, in the | |
richest neighbourhoods average earnings rose by between 1% and 16%. | |
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what does |
And then we have Minister of Economic Development Janice MacKinnon lifting our human |
spirit saying that Saskatchewan is the best place to live in the world in accordance to the United | |
Nations, and that Saskatchewan has been awarded the title of the 'Star of the Nineties' by the | |
Globe and Mail(5). I want to know one thing from Janice MacKinnon, what does her heart say | |
about our social and economic growth in Saskatchewan? | |
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numbers |
As we can see, our leaders continue to fool the common people, they don't speak with their |
hearts. Instead, this leadership speaks with the numbers manufactured by a segment of our | |
social researchers, who use their reductionist linear thinking abilities to find Machiavellian | |
numbers to cover up the misdeeds of our own governments and their loyal friends. | |
------------References/endnotes: | |
List of relevant political and economics articles http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign | |
The Reluctance to Change of Our Leadership, by Mario deSantis, November 28, 2000 | |
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Bed closures a symptom of worldwide nursing shortage: Atkinson, CBC Saskatchewan, Web Posted | Dec 11 2000 5:27 PM EST | |
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President's Address, 1997 System Dynamics Conference, George P. Richardson, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany - State University of New York | |
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The Daily for: 2000-12-13: Neighbourhood inequality in cities, Statistics Canada, | |
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Honourable Janice MacKinnon says: Saskatchewan is the Star of the Nineties, by Mario deSantis, December 3, 2000 |