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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Heather Mallick: The battle of the generations cracks swords (in the Toronto Star)

This article by Heather Mallick about the competing demands of different generations - and how the Conservatives try to use them to divide us - is important.

"Will we care for our young — the most profound human wish — or will we care for the old who, thanks to medical science, now live at least 20 years longer than was once considered reasonable?

"It shouldn’t be a contest, and only the Harper Regime would try to turn it into one. Generations at each other’s throats tend to miss the point, that we’re all in this together as we move from age 2 to 82. This is a Liberal sentiment — sane, based on economic and scientific projections, and tending to the affable.

"It’s not a Harper one. Harperites don’t like humans, we’re too expensive. ...

"We shouldn’t fall for the Conservatives egging us on. It’s like refusing that crucial temper-heating last drink. Just say no, Canadians....

"The fact is that the money is here. Ottawa is spending $35 billion on ships, including an icebreaker for Arctic ice that won’t be there when the John G. Diefenbaker slips into the water. This week we discover, thanks to Parliament’s budget watchdog, that the real cost of those F-35 fighters might be $29 billion, not the $9 billion the Harper Regime originally suggested. What a waste of dollars that could be spent smoothing the path for young and old."

Full article: Mallick: The battle of the generations cracks swords.

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