WE are fools and cow- ards. We are the new serfs con- demned to labor all our lives to support a social class who ’ five in a style and with a secu- rity beyond the hopes of any ordinary citizen. ._ These new aristocrats have not seized this power over us by force of arms like the . Norman conquerors, and _ forced us into feudal servi- * tude. ‘. ~. They have bemused us and misled us. By use of the - “the System” and “the Law” _and “Human Rights”and ‘Non-discrimination” and Women’s Liberation” and “ “First Nations Rights” — and every, ’ other hypocritical and - canting phrase and device — . Fo close down and the ery wards become filthy and ®' Complete 5 System lush plus olf the source of terrifying dis- eases. We then read that a “health administrator,” in 18 months of expert manage- ment, succeeded in bankrupt- ing his district. The taxpayer had to cough up $2,000,000 to . cover the losses. The expert administrator was fired and paid $350,000 as a golden handshake. Another, whose job had become redundant as hospi- tals closed for want of money, and who was already in receipt of a public pension of $7,000 per month, is being paid a further pension bring- ing him up to $10,250 a month plus undisclosed cash payments, which altogether cost the cash-strapped health system another half million ollars. Meanwhile, this indispens- able administrative genius, of whom I for one had never heard, has already found another job at $200, 000 a year. Consider the on-going scandals at the universities and colleges which have sucked up billions of our dol- lars over the years, and to what end? Look at the salaries and legal fees and severance pack- - ages and “damages:” @ $85,000 a year for the “harassment officer” Dr. O’Hagan (Dr. of what? Politically Correct Handholding for Hysterical _. & fiter change, including ait materials _a362 Marine Drive 980-9115 » Free. Christmas “demos throughou C ecorating | fie’day. 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These good people repre- sent another subdivision of the New Aristocracy, namely the double-dippers of this life who both pull down huge salaries with total job security and massive pensions and all DRAPERIES kinds of other perquisites and goodies. They are closely related to the greedy DINKS (Double Income No Kids) but since they can well afford nannies and servants to do all the nasty work they can have both. An intriguing aspect of the appointment of the UBC president was that she was followed to Barmy B.C. by her loving professorial psychi- atrist husband, as is only right and proper. The interesting thing is that L some fortunate chance an opening apparently accurred in his field at UBC and he got the job, thus ensuring that no sacrifices were necessary to advance his . wife’s carcer. Despite my best efforts I have been unable to find out if this fortunate job was open to competition. And consider Judge Martin late of the federal court. 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Member-Canadian Investor Protection Fund Sponsored in part by: | @ Templeton. aaiiaeda November 5, 1997 — North Shore News -— 7 a We are serfs to a new social suffered enough as he felt he should resign from the bench now that he had been found out. A sympathetic judge gave him an absolute discharge as a result of which he could go back to practising law since he had no criminal record. He applied for an early pension as a judge since he had the dread disease of CADS and so was entitled to it even though he would not otherwise have received it for many years. He got it and returned to the practice of law with $98,000 a year coming in before he turns a wheel, as we poor working class stiffs say. maibox There are thousands more examples and we all know ir but we lack the guts to put a stop to it. *The fault, Dear Brutus, is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings” (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, for those that care.) — The North Shore News believes strongly in freedom of speech and the right of all sides in a debate to be heard. The columnists published in the News present differing points of view, but those views are not necessarily those of the newspa- per itself. Pe eae neat, a SE ewes oon Cee Riled over Reform views Dear Editor: Charles MacLean is a commentator | used to think got a few things right, but his Oct. 22 column entirely destroys any cre- dence he used to enjoy when he resorts to labelling the Reform Party of Canada with the worn-out buzz words “racist and neo- nazi.” Before complaining to the Human Rights Board politicians that I am now suffering from severe emotional distress (worth at least a million dollars), I challenge MacLean to find anything in the platform or policies of the Reform Party of Canada to substantiate his ridiculous claim. 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