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Our apathy is beyond reason

Editor: Every two or three years, Statistics Canada has informed us the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.

Editor:

Every two or three years, Statistics Canada has informed us the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.

This started about the time that the Trilateral Commission was initiated 40 years ago; an elite group of the rich and powerful who decided that the new world order should consist of the ‘chosen’ filthy rich and the groveling masses.

To achieve this end, the politicians have slowly stolen from the poor and middle class and handed it to the rich. It works like this: tax breaks and loopholes are given to the rich and, when the coffers run dry, the politicians cry “cutbacks.”

And bit by bit, the two I’s take over – income inequality.

I can understand the greed of the political hacks and the rich, but the apathy of the electorate who repeatedly vote for these people amazes me. The glimmer of hope are the young people and their Occupy Wall Street group.

While our hospitals overflow, the federal minister of finance is about to push another tax break for the corporations that supply our politicians with their campaign money.

I hope this is the year that working people strike until the phony politicians squeal. Take back democracy while we still can.

R.K. Grace, Surrey