Politics

Politics are crazy eh? The government says they don't have time to meet with poverty groups or First Nation leaders, but they have time to make attack ads when there isn't even an election on. They are suppose to be busy running the country but are too busy worrying about what their opponents are or are not doing.
They say there is no money for youth or mental health programs but they seem to get a good pay cheque, own two houses and retire with multiple pensions. I don't know any other career that you get a pension for every level of the organization you work at.
Politics are crazy eh? They say they want to build a good future but spend all their time arguing about choices their competition has made in the past. They set up review boards and counsels and committees that they all sit on, and get paid for to argue about what they might do. Meanwhile people who need help have to wait years for politicians to make up their mind.
I think if they are going to make decisions for people on welfare or disability that they should have to live on the amount of money they propose these individuals live on. If they are going to make decisions about mental health services and closing group homes or other support systems that they should have to live for a week with a family affected by their decision.
It is easy for them to get wrapped up in politics instead of focusing on the people who are counting on them to make life better and make our nation the strongest possible. It cannot be a strong nation if it's inhabitants are overstressed, under nourished, neglected or down trodden.
While they travel between their different homes they own, having limos flown around the world for them to comfortably travel in, getting catering that costs hundreds per meeting and mayors taking trips to see the world. Perhaps they could focus on the people who voted them in, the ones who are at home struggling to feel security in their life. Maybe we could spend money on protecting youth on the streets of Toronto from violence or feeding our children that are going to school starving rather than PR campaigns around the globe and photo ops that do us no real good. Instead of photos with Pandas you should have conversations with First Nation youth that just walked thousands of kilometres in hopes of changing the country for the better.
Tuition fees at post secondary schools are sky rocketing and politicians are charging the schools tens of thousands of dollars to speak to students that are the future of our nation. Are we not paying our politicians more than enough money? They decide when they get a raise or when others don't have a right to fight for their rights on a job. They decide where we have free speech and where we don't, when we need help and what help we will get. As they eat their $12 catered muffins and sip their expensive coffee.