Common Sense?

Most people have common sense. Why do we lose it?

It is common sense that a check for $49 per week from employment insurance won't pay amy bills. Working for $250 per week will barely feed a family, regardless of how big. Let alone pay for heat, lights, insurance (home or auto), clothes, medical, travel, paint, appliances, home repairs & more depending on the age & how many children there are. To then have to wait, sometimes 6 weeks or more, for employment insurance. Then recieve up to $150 per week to manage the same household as before.

Who, in their right mind, would be able to decide another person should have to deal with this issue. These are people who want to make a living instead of relying on social assistance to provide for them. That is common sense. I want to work for a living & prosper in doing so. Most of us want a good paying job. A carpenter should not have to work for $6.75 an hour.

Who loses their common sense. How about former opposition parties in politics? The ruling party can do no good by opposition. A person can & will walk into your home & tell you he/she knows your predicament & can help, only if the individual gets elected. Once the person gets elected & is in power, they have no power. They can't. The first thing we notice is how user fees have tripled & insurance rates skyrocket.

We go through this every election. They will make all the difference in the world. Then they have to tow party lines. There is no democracy in running a democracy. A free vote is a big thing when it occurs.

Is this a lack of common sense? The government decides to move a government office which employs a dozen people, to another province, at a cost of several million dollars for no good reason. These people either move or lose their jobs. Well, they can get other jobs. From other people. The member for that area can't make a peep. Why? Because his party is in power.

This is a good one. Lobby for years to have the federal government to put an end to bottom trawling of our oceans because you know from experience in your home province that this is causing irreversable damage to the sea floor. Some of the top fishing nations come asking for support for exactly what you were fighting for for years. Your party is now in power & you are the fisheries minister & turn them down flat. What, you've changed your mind?

You're getting ripped off for many years by the feds & the opposition party knows it & claws & fights for your right to be treated fairly & get the royalties you very well deserve. Your provincial leader takes the feds to task & gets exactly what is owed & was promised. The opposition leader is all hoorays & in your face Mr. Prime Minister. The same leader, now in power, now wants to take back that richly deserved victory.

Man, I could go on for days.