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

 

 

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