Making money is not creating wealth |
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By Mario deSantis, February 8 2000 |
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Our government is out of touch with people and is continuing with economic policy directions | |
we create wealth when we are all participants of our economic system |
based on shifting the blame, based on more and more consulting studies, and based on saving |
money. Our politicians have no understanding whatsoever about the difference between creating | |
wealth and making money at the expense of others. Creation of wealth occurs when more services | |
and products are delivered to satisfy people's needs with the result of having healthier | |
communities. It means that when we create wealth we become freer from materialistic needs, | |
we strive to become more educated, we are healthier, we become more responsible for ourselves, | |
we voluntary observe the law, we have more harmonious relationships in the communities we | |
live, we care for others, we can enjoy our natural amenities without fear of being poisoned by | |
the polluting residuals of our industries. In few words, we create wealth when we are all | |
participants of our economic system, where we all feel happier and build on continuous small | |
successes for all. | |
We make money at the expense of others when we compete in an economy without any concern | |
governmental drive to become global supersedes |
for the social health of local communities. We make money at the expense of others when we |
disregard our fellow man(1), when we indiscriminately invoke either the Rule of Law(2) or the | |
written word(3), when we socialize costs by polluting the environment(4), when we try to solve | |
problems either by chronically saving money(5) or by banking on the flops of gigantic projects(6), | |
when we build a Synchrotron in Saskatoon as the students of the local university face higher | |
tuition(7), when we don't care of the plight of our farmers(8)(9), when the governmental drive to | |
become global supersedes the interests of the local communities(10). | |
Our healthcare system is in a mess, our education system is not adequate, many of our farmers | |
This is not democracy | are in desperate conditions, our highways are crumbling, 40% of our children live in such poor |
conditions that they are at risk of doing poorly in school, our juvenile crime rate is the highest | |
in Canada. There is no doubt, this government is directing economic policies on behalf of the | |
few and privileged, and in the process is becoming more and more alienated from the people. | |
This is not democracy Mr. Premier Romanow. | |
---------------Endnotes: | |
Downsizing and the City of Saskatoon, by Mario deSantis and reviewed by James F. deSantis; August 21, 1999 | |
Premier Romanow: Reinventing The Rule Of Law And Becoming Above The Law, by Mario deSantis, September 2, 1999 http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/desam/paper-ReinvenLaw-Sept02-99.htm | |
Intimidation: Management style at Saskatoon District Health, by Mario deSantis, January 27, 2000 | |
Valdez parked in Tisdale, FTLComm - Tisdale - December 19, 1999 | |
SAHO Payroll Policies: Saving Money out of Ongoing Catastrophes, by Mario deSantis, February 9, 1999 | |
Our leaders can't recognize an asset from a hole in the ground, by Mario deSantis, December 2, 1999 | |
University of Saskatchewan: A Vision Built on Privileged Education and on the Synchrotron, by Mario deSantis, October 25, 1999 | |
The farm crisis and the globalization of our economy, by Mario deSantis, February 2, 2000 | |
Free-trade effect killing farmers, a personal viewpoint, by David Orchard, The StarPhoenix, Local A9, February 4, 2000, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | |
A governmental responsibility is to clean up our house first, by Mario deSantis, December 7, 1999 | |