Hi, Ray, Can you say a bit more about "gaslighting"? Interesting term.
Thanks, Lawry On Jun 28, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Ray Harrell wrote: > Glad to hear that Canadian government workers are waking up to how well they > have it. Hope it’s not too late as with the medical profession here who > for years spoke of how they were “abusing the insurance companies” until they > woke up and had tyrants on their hands limiting their ability to do the > excellent job they had done all along. > > > > Whining eventually gets someone’s attention and I’ve heard whining about the > lousy government jobs in Canada for years and thought that they didn’t know > how lucky they were. Same for Canadian citizens who complained about lousy > health care and came here for their care. It never hurts to have competition > and if you need something immediate the American private sector is good at > rescues when the Canadian or Veterans Hospitals here would take longer. > America is just bad at long term solutions to almost anything. > > > > The exception is my Veteran’s Healthcare. I am both thrilled and amazed by > my “socialist” Veterans Healthcare. I don’t mind paying the private > sector occasionally and would do nothing to endanger my VA healthcare just > to gripe. > > > > The English are probably finding out the same thing now but they too, still > like to gripe. Some people, like our idiots on the Supreme Court, equate > whining with freedom and it IS “freedom,” if you are poor. If you’re not > poor, you’re just throwing sand in the gears. > > > > Today, even billionaires talk like they are poor. It’s disgusting. With > them it’s a strategy that the police and psycho-therapists use called > “gaslighting.” > > > > Real freedom only comes from having the intellectual and physical capital to > attain the significance you have in your potential. Being held back by > either poverty or provincial rigidity and the lack of performability is what > Thomas Jefferson called “voluntary slavery.” > > > > REH > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Weick > Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 9:31 AM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: [Futurework] Don't worry and try very very very hard to be happy! > > > > Some interesting items in our local paper (Ottawa Citizen). One dealt with a > sharp increase in disability claims by federal government employees in 2010. > Nearly half of the claims concerned mental health and anxiety issues. I’ve > heard from a variety of sources that the public service is not a good place > to work now, with the threat of job cuts hanging over people’s heads. Even > if your job is relatively secure, you’re not sure you’re going to be allowed > to do it as it should be done. I know of one case in which a public > servant’s job is overseeing government expenditures in another part of the > country. It would be logical, even necessary for him to go and see what his > clients are doing on the ground. But, oh no, travel budgets been cut. Can’t > do that. In another case, a friend who is eligible for retirement has just > not bothered going in to work. The atmosphere is just too bad. Who needs it? > > > > Another item in the paper dealt with anger among postal employees who had > arbitrarily been sent back to work by the government. They were on strike, > but instead of at least giving things a chance to work themselves out, the > government moved in and sent the strikers back to work. One reason given was > that too many small businesses depended on being able to send invoices out > and get checks back. Well, mmmhmmm, I guess that could be a reason, but the > government should at least have given the collective bargaining process a > chance to try to work things out instead of shutting it off. It recently did > the same thing in the case of an Air Canada cabin crew strike. Nope! Can’t > wait for collective bargaining. Service is too vital! > > > > Yet another item dealt with ex senior Cabinet Minister Stockwell Day setting > up a consulting firm in possible violation of the Federal Accountability Act > which requires that public office holders to wait five years before > participating in lobbying. Day says that his firm would be advisory. It > would not lobby or connect clients to politicians or bureaucrats. Oh? Then > what would it do? > > > > Altogether, it doesn’t look like a good time to work for government or a > Canadian crown corporation.. But there are other things going on that should > make you happy. Hey, Will and Kate are coming! So elate and enjoy, and > forget about the silly stuff that you normally have to worry about, like your > job, you health or your pension. > > > > Ed > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
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