Pat Atkinson and Janice MacKinnon: they have to fix their minds before they fix health care and economic development

Nipawin - December 14, 2000 - by: Mario deSantis

fix health
care
Minister of Health Pat Atkinson is still looking on how to fix health care⁽¹⁾, and she has been

looking for a fix for some years now, and her researchers and consultants have not found the

right fix yet. After so many big studies and big researches on health care, the only thing left

to do is to fix the minds of our incompetent leaders and researchers.

no big
fix
There is no big fix for anything, the fix is only found in healthier community, and as long as

health care specialists and workers leave the province along with the healthier and youngest

labour force, there will not be a fix for either health care or for our social and economic

predicament.

autocratic leadership
Pat Atkinson blames the world wide shortage of nurses for the recent closure of hospital beds

and cancellation of surgeries⁽²⁾, yet we have had in Saskatchewan a decadent economy, an

oppressive autocratic leadership, an unconstitutional and phony government; a government

which breaks its own laws and encourages the abuses of basic human rights through a

conspiracy of silence, intimidation and legal delays on behalf of the few and privileged.

people
We have reiterated and we will never get tired to say that the problem in health care is the same

as the problem in any other social and economic environment. The basic problem is the lack

of our willingness to recognize that the most important wealth of the province is in its people

and that creation of wealth cannot be disassociated from the educational and civil growth of

our people.

jungle
ruled
There is no quick fix for health care, there is no quick fix for education, there is no quick fix

for our poor, and there will not be a quick fix for anything else unless our leadership stops

to serve itself at the expense of our future, that is at the expense of the growing number of our

underprivileged children. We need a change of mind for tackling our social challenges, and

we need to have a government which stops its lies to its people. And as long as we have a

leadership composed of copycats interested more to serve themselves and their friends, this

same leadership will do anything to sustain itself and they will continue to lie and shift the

blame of our social challenges to outside factors. Our current leadership is the degeneration

of a mental jungle ruled by static, linear behemoths that see little more than one-way chains

of logic, correlation, and perhaps an occasional vicious circle⁽³⁾.

1980
to
1995
The world is round and diverse, our social relationships should follow the natural and creative

growth for both our individual self and social settings, and instead our leadership is reinforcing

a privileged economic growth and further divide our people, geographically, politically,

educationally, culturally, and economically. And today I came to know that in a span of

fifteen years, between 1980 and 1995, the eight largest cities experienced a further increase

in the income gap between the rich and poor neighborhoods⁽⁴⁾. Not taking into account the

people who are disenfranchised, and not taking into account the unemployed, the employment

earnings in the poorest neighborhoods declined between 11% and 33%. In contrast, in the

richest neighbourhoods average earnings rose by between 1% and 16%.

what does
her heart
say
And then we have Minister of Economic Development Janice MacKinnon lifting our human

spirit saying that Saskatchewan is the best place to live in the world in accordance to the United

Nations, and that Saskatchewan has been awarded the title of the 'Star of the Nineties' by the

Globe and Mail⁽⁵⁾. I want to know one thing from Janice MacKinnon, what does her heart say

about our social and economic growth in Saskatchewan?

numbers
As we can see, our leaders continue to fool the common people, they don't speak with their

hearts. Instead, this leadership speaks with the numbers manufactured by a segment of our

social researchers, who use their reductionist linear thinking abilities to find Machiavellian

numbers to cover up the misdeeds of our own governments and their loyal friends.

------------References/endnotes:

List of relevant political and economics articles http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign

1.
The Reluctance to Change of Our Leadership, by Mario deSantis, November 28, 2000

2.
-
Bed closures a symptom of worldwide nursing shortage: Atkinson, CBC Saskatchewan, Web Posted | Dec 11 2000 5:27 PM EST

3.
-
President's Address, 1997 System Dynamics Conference, George P. Richardson, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany - State University of New York

4.
The Daily for: 2000-12-13: Neighbourhood inequality in cities, Statistics Canada,

5.
-
Honourable Janice MacKinnon says: Saskatchewan is the Star of the Nineties, by Mario deSantis, December 3, 2000



Nipawin - December 14, 2000 - by: Mario deSantis

fix health care	Minister of Health Pat Atkinson is still looking on how to fix health care⁽¹⁾, and she has been
	looking for a fix for some years now, and her researchers and consultants have not found the
	right fix yet. After so many big studies and big researches on health care, the only thing left
	to do is to fix the minds of our incompetent leaders and researchers.

no big fix	There is no big fix for anything, the fix is only found in healthier community, and as long as
	health care specialists and workers leave the province along with the healthier and youngest
	labour force, there will not be a fix for either health care or for our social and economic
	predicament.

autocratic leadership	Pat Atkinson blames the world wide shortage of nurses for the recent closure of hospital beds
	and cancellation of surgeries⁽²⁾, yet we have had in Saskatchewan a decadent economy, an
	oppressive autocratic leadership, an unconstitutional and phony government; a government
	which breaks its own laws and encourages the abuses of basic human rights through a
	conspiracy of silence, intimidation and legal delays on behalf of the few and privileged.

people	We have reiterated and we will never get tired to say that the problem in health care is the same
	as the problem in any other social and economic environment. The basic problem is the lack
	of our willingness to recognize that the most important wealth of the province is in its people
	and that creation of wealth cannot be disassociated from the educational and civil growth of
	our people.

jungle ruled	There is no quick fix for health care, there is no quick fix for education, there is no quick fix
	for our poor, and there will not be a quick fix for anything else unless our leadership stops
	to serve itself at the expense of our future, that is at the expense of the growing number of our
	underprivileged children. We need a change of mind for tackling our social challenges, and
	we need to have a government which stops its lies to its people. And as long as we have a
	leadership composed of copycats interested more to serve themselves and their friends, this
	same leadership will do anything to sustain itself and they will continue to lie and shift the
	blame of our social challenges to outside factors. Our current leadership is the degeneration
	of a mental jungle ruled by static, linear behemoths that see little more than one-way chains
	of logic, correlation, and perhaps an occasional vicious circle⁽³⁾.

1980 to 1995	The world is round and diverse, our social relationships should follow the natural and creative
	growth for both our individual self and social settings, and instead our leadership is reinforcing
	a privileged economic growth and further divide our people, geographically, politically,
	educationally, culturally, and economically. And today I came to know that in a span of
	fifteen years, between 1980 and 1995, the eight largest cities experienced a further increase
	in the income gap between the rich and poor neighborhoods⁽⁴⁾. Not taking into account the
	people who are disenfranchised, and not taking into account the unemployed, the employment
	earnings in the poorest neighborhoods declined between 11% and 33%. In contrast, in the
	richest neighbourhoods average earnings rose by between 1% and 16%.

what does her heart say	And then we have Minister of Economic Development Janice MacKinnon lifting our human
	spirit saying that Saskatchewan is the best place to live in the world in accordance to the United
	Nations, and that Saskatchewan has been awarded the title of the 'Star of the Nineties' by the
	Globe and Mail⁽⁵⁾. I want to know one thing from Janice MacKinnon, what does her heart say
	about our social and economic growth in Saskatchewan?

numbers	As we can see, our leaders continue to fool the common people, they don't speak with their
	hearts. Instead, this leadership speaks with the numbers manufactured by a segment of our
	social researchers, who use their reductionist linear thinking abilities to find Machiavellian
	numbers to cover up the misdeeds of our own governments and their loyal friends.

------------References/endnotes:

	List of relevant political and economics articles http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign

1.	The Reluctance to Change of Our Leadership, by Mario deSantis, November 28, 2000

2. -	Bed closures a symptom of worldwide nursing shortage: Atkinson, CBC Saskatchewan, Web Posted \| Dec 11 2000 5:27 PM EST

3. -	President's Address, 1997 System Dynamics Conference, George P. Richardson, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany - State University of New York

4.	The Daily for: 2000-12-13: Neighbourhood inequality in cities, Statistics Canada,

5. -	Honourable Janice MacKinnon says: Saskatchewan is the Star of the Nineties, by Mario deSantis, December 3, 2000