To the Editor:
Libya, like Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Greece, Haiti, Africa, Peru and others are a burden on the West as we will be sucked by them for decades to come while Canucks and Yanks suffer increased poverty, doctor shortages, welfare, high bankruptcies, unemployment while these freeloading leeches suck us for our tax money.
What do we get for all the expenses of these idiotic wars - nothing but a huge debt to try to wetnurse savage countries that cannot be trusted. Let these nations, including Somali, stand or fall on their own: clogged with drug cartels, war lords, crooked leaders, terrorists, pirates, aggressive military people and ageless blood feuds and religious factions. Can you take home a small paycheck and cover all your neighbor's food, medicine, insurance, gasoline, and monthly bills and then face your family to tell them there is no money left for basic staples - NO NO NO!
This is what the jokers in the Stephen Harper, now Obama (George Bush's and Tony Blair's lies/mess), Cameron and Sarkosy governments are doing (and those before them) - they are treasonously betraying our people while butt kissing their military with outrageous costs of ships, jets, etc. instead of replenishing fish stocks, putting people back to work, affordable housing, dental care, less hospital waits, etc.
Let us not forget the jury is still out on 9/11 with its many suspicious controversies that mirror inside jobs like JFK, Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, Oklahoma City Bombing - all those cannot be blamed on Muslims. Canada is a magnet for criminal lowlifes with ongoing human smuggling, joke justice system and an abusive immigration/refugee process that is bleeding us dry - cut immigration and refugee quotas by 60 per cent while we suffer hard times but Ottawa lacks brains and moral integrity. Their only vision is to line their pockets with sickening salaries and perks for doing little. No wonder people hate politicians, most are crooks and they are in the top 10 per cent of wage earners in this land, something is desperately wrong...
Contrary to global beliefs, Canadians are not all rich with Porsches in our driveways. There is increased welfare, suicides, homelessness, unacceptable unemployment numbers, unpardonable gaps between the rich and poor, too much taxes, more street crime, bad cops with criminal records allowed to keep the badge, doctor shortages, First Nations in dire straits, charities being pinched, seniors in bad health, school closures, etc. - but we have tons of cash for other nations. It was an idiotic waste of money on the G8 summit; Olympics; $20 million in condoms for Africa, etc. Fact - Mr. Harper, the missionaries for decades have tried in vain to educate people about sex practices and responsible family planning and sending $20 million is like giving pensions to rich people, it makes no sense!
Our war mongering Prime Minister (clone of George Bush) and his cronies throw a king's ransom at the military like money grows on trees - we babysit wild lands (Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Egypt) while people are needing help here. It is insane to "police and bank" the globe while other sleeping giant nations are rising to become the new super power (India, China, Russia) because they do not get involved in a "bleeding heart syndrome" of playing G.I. Joe to every whining nation.
How many billions are spent on Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya in the past 10 years or Pakistan?
Yet the overpaid in Ottawa do not have the guts to spend a night with a homeless person, stay with a First Nations family in an isolated community suffering inhumane hardships, endure the pain people suffer because of high costs of dentists, etc.
We are on a "wild goose chase" babysitting others while our social ills get shelved. Canada needs to address the declining fish stocks, put people back to work, cut abuses like CPP for rich people or prisoners, cut college/university education for all prisoners, tax the rich who do not pay enough - anyone over $100,000.00/yr+.
Charity begins at home Mr. Harper, but many like you do not care while you seduce the voters with bogus promises, why not send your kids to fight in the front line of these wars?
Politicians show some backbone and line up at a soup kitchen, send your loved ones (without protection if you dare) at 4 a.m. on dangerous crime streets to see how our streets are "Americanized."
Why not show some guts and cut the wages of all federal politicians by 30 per cent? If you want to impress the people tighten the belts and stop spending on foreign soils. How dare we forgive (2010) Pakistan $400 million dollar loan or others? What did that country do with the cash? Buy weapons? Pay drug cartels and terrorists and then they asked the world for more? Shame!
We need to fix our own problems before putting on a superhero's cape to every land with a crisis. God help us, who would help Canada or USA if we had a crisis - nobody including these nations mentioned herein! Look at USA's Katrina. Six years afterwards it is still inhabitable in many areas but the West is spending money like zombies for others. Wake up Canada, the Arab Spring could happen here. Little kids have better common sense, maybe all levels of politicians are not smarter than a 5th grader! Truth hurts... how many other Canadians feel the same way? More than you know. This explains why voter turnout is declining, "one is a crook, the other a thief, who do you vote for?"
We waste money on the royal family and so many others - money that could be responsibly allocated and used for the good of so many needy Canadians. This all makes about as much sense as an invite by a municipal leader to a racist ex-USA president for an Economic summit, why not just invite the devil?
K. Maude, Vancouver, BC.
