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2005-09-14

Doctor, Lawyer, Beggarman, Thief

In less than 10 years time 80% of our technical trades will suffer
from a lack of trained replacement tradesmen.

Due to stupid Government changes in funds to educate our people
interested in becoming teachers and doctors, we bear witness to
the mayhem that sort of stupidity has cost the taxpayer in dollars
and health costs.

Hospitals are closing, beds are being transferred and the executive
branch of all these people in charge get richer while you and I
suffer the consequences of watching our most important needs go
down the drain or cost us in exhorbitant tax raises.

Changes need to be made and those changes only come about from
the people who have had their Government change the rules from
government for the people by the people to desicration of total
societal conditions we worked so hard to create.

Our kids can now be expelled from schools.  Teachers are  no longer
trained to help the difficult student, and are barely trained as
responsible and suitable teachers of the most basic three r's.

The fathers of my generation fought for the right to freeedom and our
generation worked our butts off to be able to provide the necessities
of life for ourselves and our kids.  Slowly those rights are being
ignored, changed so we are losing basic rights, or tromped on for the
benefit of a few to the loss of the majority.

Are we truly blind to the happenings around us?  Are we truly in the
thinking mode that as long as it touches someone else, we can share
pity but fail to see that those bad rules are bound to find us and touch
us a lot harder than those that came before?  Where is the guts and
glory of real people working to make sure all people enjoy the rights
that freedom, liberty and justice for all proclaim?

Your country or mine, the issues are the same.  The rules have been
bent, twisted and broken so badly that the 'new order' is sneaking in
and you are not even seeing it coming.  
 


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2005-09-12

One Life In A Drawer

I have this great oak desk that serves as my computer base. It's
worn and scarred and certainly seen better days. What I like about
this oaken horse is its nooks and crannies supplying lots of storage
room for my needs.

In one of those forgettable moments, I decided to open one of the
drawers that seldom sees daylight. Inside was an envelope from
a new friend I made some years ago.

Anja was a housewife living in the boonies of Fort St. James in
British Columbia. What I recall most, was her need to find an
online business that would fill in her lonely hours and make her
a small income.

I liked her instantly, we began to talk. There was something warm
and real about this woman, so I agreed to receive some information
on this company she was working with.

Scams, Shams and Disappointment

Anja is special because she was real. But for Anja, it stops there.
What went wrong for Anja would have gone wrong for me if I had
followed through and joined her. What the real shame is in all of
this, is that many caring people just like Anja ended up in a losing
position because they trusted in the mission of a pyramid company.

It will be two years and two months to the Sept 23rd date we met
and discussed this company, that Global Online Systems bit the dust.

"A Competition Bureau investigation into a Vancouver-based multi-level
marketing firm has led to a $150,000 fine and guilty pleas on two
counts under the deceptive marketing provisions of the Competition Act. "

The company and its directors voluntarily plead guilty and paid the
fine. What I want to know is, what peace and compensation is
there for people like Anja who get sucked in by these types?

Those who join pyramid schemes are often enticed by promises of
easy money, but only the very few at the top ever see any real benefit.

While The Bureau is committed to pursuing these offences under the
Competition Act and ensuring that Canadians do not fall prey to such
scams, what can be done for so many Anja's who are caring and real
who lose everything for trusting in these people?

Due diligence is a nice term, equally as useless as caveat emptor -
buyer beware for the new, the susceptible and the trusting. Shouldn't
our Governments be spending more time investigating these people
when they apply for a licence to scam rather than waiting for the
heartbreak of many to cause them concern?

If they did, would the Internet still be so full of such vultures?


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