Monthly Archives: June 2014

City Life

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If you live in a city, you will know exactly what I am talking about. If you don’t live in a city, be glad you don’t. The first problem is that once we move into ‘city-life’ we get trapped. It is like getting stuck in a spider’s web, because of all the hooks around convenience. The conveniences however, are not anything that comes anywhere near the costs of being able to have them. Also the convenience does not make ones life better, only perhaps easier in some ways. Let me explain as simply as I can.

It is easier to find a doctor in the city, but city life will make you sick faster than anything else. It is called stress. Nothing works properly, almost everything is overcrowded, there is also too much diversity of opinions and lifestyles, which cause conflict. Individual politicians are out of touch with the huge scope of issues and problems, and even if they are in touch they will do very little about creating improvement. Then we have the air pollution issues created by construction, lack of municipal resources, and vehicular traffic congestion. Cities today are overcrowded, not very clean, nor do the local authorities have the money to do what is necessary. Most cities situated in areas that get severe winter conditions cannot even afford to remove dangerous road snow. Easy transportation is next to impossible any time of year, it is very often hectic and unreliable due to congestion. Public safety is only a concept, it is never a reality. Many city streets are not safe; we have security cameras to record the problems, not prevent them.  Oh yes, don’t forget all the time one must line up and be abused to get the things they want. Cities due to their nature, are clearly overly competitive environments for human beings to be truly comfortable in. And, despite all the problems, cities are overly expensive.NEED I SAY MORE? Who cares if doctors are easier to find? If we didn’t live in a city, there is a good chance we wouldn’t need one anyway? Think about it.

On a potentially positive side, cities could be okay if our municipal politicians really cared. They could make things work a lot better by having integrity, accepting some real responsibility/accountability,and putting some fair and reasonable controls in place – but they do not have the will. All they have is talk. They only care about getting votes to keep their cushy high-paying jobs, and collecting more and more revenue (taxes) to pay for their salaries, benefit packages, and their ‘pet’ projects, whether they truly help anyone or not. Most often they hurt more people than they help. Too bad we don’t have more and better choices when it comes to voting.

Personally, I would never recommend living in a city, unless one absolutely must. Sure I understand that some people are afraid to be away from the crowd, but that is something one can overcome if they really want to; that is, if they have not already been hooked. If you have, perhaps you can still see that smaller might be a better choice than bigger, so if you can down-size, go for it.

Democracy Hypocrisy

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We are always hearing how wonderful Democracy is. All I have to say is ‘Ba Humbug’. Democracy is supposed to be a form of government that reflects and expresses the voice of the majority of citizens. The administration is supposed to be fairly elected representatives who represent the desires of  the majority of citizens living in their designated geographic regions.

Let’s really be honest and admit the above is not happening at all. First, our representatives are, more often than not, put into power by a minority of citizens. This happens because a huge percentage of people, for good reason, do not trust those who are running to be politicians; so they do not even bother to vote. Why vote if nobody running can, or will do the job properly? What’s the point in having the best of the worst? And besides, what does a person’s single vote achieve anyway? Have you ever heard of a politician winning or losing by one vote?

I know some of you are saying,”If you can do better, then why don’t you run for politics?”. Come on, let’s not kid ourselves -try! Are you rich or have a major benefactor, are you a celebrity, do you have family in politics, and will the other party members support you unless you do what they want; regardless of what the majority of citizens want. Who is kidding who? Politicians are an ‘old boys club’, even the young ones! They are also people who are able to say YES to everyone to get their vote, and then once in power vote NO, or vice versa.

The next problem, is we have ‘party’ systems in which our representatives vote for what the party leaders want, not what the the citizens want. It is not much different than a dictatorship, except we go through the motions of having fair representation and voting. Everyone including the media make it look like everything is above-board, at least until there is a scandal of some sort. But we all know who will win in the end, usually big business and the politician’s pet special interest groups – certainly not the majority.

You might want to think about what I have said the next time you hear someone get on their ‘high horse’ about how wonderful Democracy is. Although, it could be, if most of our politicians were honest and had any real integrity!