Y RATHER suspect that the real reason my wife married me is because I came cheaper than a moving van. If she had her druthers, I’m sure she’d have been far happier ‘plighting her troth with Atlas Van ‘Lines than casting her lot with me. -: > "- SWhen I said the words: ‘‘All my - worldly goods I thee endow,”’ I had no idea it meant spending the . -‘ rest of my natural life carting the ° stuff around the planet. The problem seems to be that she forms a curious emetiona) at- tachment to each and every worldy goed we posséss, no mat- ter how tattered or humble. _As aresult, she can’t bear to part with the things, even for a short while. I’m no psychologist, but I’m gertain Freud had a word for this pehavior. Hernia, I think. At no time does this become -more of a pain in my sacroiliac "than when we go on vacation. “MAILBOX Could Miusic ’91 ye just the tip of the iceberg? * public inquiry into Music °91 will Apparently, .: funding: was provided by the Dear Editor: . “i _-would like to take this oppor- tunity to thank PAichael Becker and. the North Shore News for ‘covering our story to date on “Music "91. . “The North Shore News appears to be the only media in the Lower .Mainiand with‘ the guts to do so, "and because of this, i believe, we -. have accomplished a major vic- “tery, with the Victoria office of * David Schreck assuring us that a take place starting in October. Unfortunately, Music ’91 is just . i¢:tip of an incestuous family | - sired by Expo 86, mothered by the B.C. Pavilion. Corp., with the * B.C. lotteries:and tourism as the generous aunt and uncle. : unconditional : proud grandparents in the form of ‘ former.Socred MLAs who seemed ‘ to be ‘oblivious to the fact that the ‘inheritances: this ‘‘family’ was +. ‘spending ‘was the inheritance of you and me... . IT wish this new government luck » Dear Editor: I read with interest the comments of some respondents -in last. week’s North Shore - News when asked their views ‘on cross-border shopping. Some said it is ‘‘unpatriotic.”’ Maybe the next time these .“‘patriotic’” Canadians board an airplane to fiy off to their favorite holiday destinations “ise... Mexico, Hawaii, ‘|. Burope...) they will realize they - are contributing to the annual $4 billion travel account deficit — .-rung up by Canadians each ‘year doing their cross-border JYon’t leave home without it We just got back from two weeks on Saltspring Isiard, and if you happen to spot me walking with a strangely stooped manner with the faint smell of Absorbine Junior wafting in the breeze, this should explain it. ' I don’t know about you, but to me two weeks does not represent a whole bunch of time. We're talk- ing 14 days here, not some dynastic period, and a person ‘shouid be able to get by throwing a sock or two in the old gladstone bag and be done with it. Fling in 2 change of shorts, say, a toothbrush, a couple of quarts of Bug Killer and Bob’s your un- cle. : I certainly wouldn't include an ironing board. But there it was, strapped to the roof of the car, looking like some sort of home- made surfing gadget. That’s what I told the nice ferry terminal attendant it Was, once she got done laughing. {I couldn’t really blame her. Our car looked like some sort of mobilized flea market.) “That may look like an ironing in their investigation, as this system has cost the taxpayers mil- lions and millions of doilars, has seriously affected funding for the legitimate non-profit arts com- munity and made it very tough for the free enterprise entertainment agencies, and the artists that we represent. For many years venues such as Whistler, Science World and many Greater Vancouver Regional District events were a closed shop for this very selective group. One wonders how many other industries were also affected in this manner from the previous government, and may stil! be receiving this treatment from the federal government. One thing is for sure: it is no longer a democracy when there is one system for those in govern- ment with no questioning and no consequences for actions, and a completely different system for the people who pay for the gov- ernment. Sue Cook North Vancouver |Get best value for money holiday shopping. As an “unpatriotic’’ Cana- dian who works the first six months of each year to pay for our four levels of bloated gov- ernment and keep an army of unemplcyed on Wreck Beach for the summer, | intend to get the best value possible for my after-tax dollar, even if it means spending some money in the ‘‘free enterprise’ U.S., two words sadly lacking in the Ca- nadian vocabulary. Edwasd Page North Vancouver Paul Hughes es HUGHES’ VIEWS board to you,’’ I said, ‘‘but this baby is going to revolutionize the beach toy industry.”’ ‘I don’t think she believed me. The problem was, the ironing board wasn't the only domestic device we loaded. Among other*essential? objects Welfare vs e Dear Editor: . According to the media, there are 2.3 million Canadians living on welfare, below the poverty line. No doubt many of these people are very capable of making their own living as small business peo- ple, but cannot or will not accept the excessive discrimination and political abuse from the federal government. These abuses are fa- thered by Brian Mulroney and assisted by Otto Jelinek against smali businesses in Canada. Discrimination is illegal, as is political slavery, or more ap- propriately, political prostitution. The federal government uses its law to force small businesses to pay taxes, as well as to collect the tax known as GST (Government shochorned inio the old Pontiac were the iron, of course; our toaster, since the one in the cabin, ‘just doesn't do it right.’’; two electric fans; a coffee pot; one three-ton box of Agatha Christie ,. mysteries; several tubes and jars of makeup products deemed nec- essary for daily facial re-construc- tion; two of “our-own’’ pillows; an alarm clock (7); six quarts of sun-block; two umbrellas (one of the sun variety and one of the rain variety); three flashlights plus a box of emergency candles; three suitcases. Of course, there were the usual sundry staples packed loose so we could survive the arduous five- hour journey: Several dozen magazines, two boxes of Kleenex, a few cans of pop and a bagged lunch. Also a cooler filled with milk, eggs, fruit and assorted vegetables. Did I mention two 20-paund cats, complete with wire cage, 60 pounds of kitty litter, a few cases of their“ special’’food, plus a multitude of cat toys? Ignore for the moment the sheer genius it takes to pack six cubic yards of garage sale rejects into a one cubic yard automobile. Suf- fice it to say that we eventually did it. Mind you, once we got ali that stuff, plus ourselves pried in there, any sudden opening of doors — or even the glove-box — would have caused a cataclysmic explosion along the lines of the Big Bang. Little bits of our belongings would even now be unfolding at the speed of light somewhere in the vicinity of Neptune. One would think, though, that all this would be worth it when One got to one’s cabin. One would slowly and carefully unpack, and then put one’s feet up, secure in the knowledge that cne had surely - brought everything one could : possibly need. Gne would be wrong. “*Let’s go to the store in Ganges, dear,’ she said. ‘There's one or two things ! forgot.’” Wh any luck, they’! never find the dody. political prostitution Ail business people, but particular- convenienced, abused ‘and fgally ” defrauded on a daily basis by.the highly ‘paid Revenue Canada Squandering Tax) without being able to charge government for do- ing the collection for them. ~ . One then wonders: why pay Revenue Canada people and poli- ticians? Why aren’t they forced to work for. government pay? How about judges and other civil servants? What the Mulroney government has done is inflict legal discrimination and political pro- stitution on all small business people in Canada. Why would anyone on welfare want to be demoted to the level of politica! prostitute? Small business people create the most jobs in this country and would create many more if treated humanely, There is another reason why 2.3 ‘million Canadians are on welfare. without . eniployees. These abuses are legal under the Income Tax Act, which supersede the Canadian Constitution. Dishonest politicians have kept this secret as well as keeping the abuses of Revenue Canada on- smal! business people a secret. — - No wonder there are 2.3 million on welfare. Can Canadians really afford to Te-elect this government, especial- ly with its policy to force small business people to pay money for the privilege of being abused? * D.D. Cranfictd . Saskatoon, Sask.