Flaherty says, "mild spell"; Harper says, "Yeah, what he said"

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"- Upton Sinclair




















CBC News:
Recession a 'relatively mild' challenge for Canada: Flaherty

The Canadian Press:
Job losses worry Harper: he could become victim too, he says


Here's the thing...
I have no idea what the fuck is going on.
I don't know if I'll ever know what the fuck is going on. All I know is that there were almost sixty thousand Canadian jobs lost in the month of March, bringing the total to over three hundred and thirty thousand since October. The United States lost over six hundred and sixty thousand jobs in this month alone. Our dollar is falling and millions of people are suffering.

Maybe this really is a mild spell. I don't have all the facts, but I can be absolutely positive that those in charge don't either, or at least they are withholding. On one side we have, "We'll be fine. This will all be over in a month or two. This is not a depression." And the other side feels the need to use the word apocalypse.

Two extremist point of views, one that pacifies and one that gives us ulcers. I admit, I have been indulging in the latter, and definitely not at the benefit of my personal health. In fact, I think I'm losing sleep over it (and apparently so is our PM).

To panic and riot over this right now is absolutely idiotic. But we CANNOT let this slip by without fully understanding the reasons why it happened in the first place. This recession/depression/collapse/apocalypse is the byproduct of a system that is designed to make the wealthy more wealthy and enslave billions of third world citizens for profit. Right now, our finance ministers and bank CEO's and our government is attempting to play down the real reasons for this depression, as if it is simply just "The Way Things Are". Millions are suffering now, and billions will continue to be enslaved and in poverty if we do not change.

Jim Flaherty, you are a bastard. You are attempting to placate all of us with lies during a crisis that needs immediate attention and a complete reevaluation of our system as a whole. Denying this will not assuage mass panic as you assume, we already have the facts and most of us are not as dumb as you think we are. Your actions in these times only goes to show that you do not have the interests of the Canadian people in mind, and that you do not give a flying fuck about any of us. But the saddest thing of all of this, is that you will probably never understand the wrong that you do.