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Why Fight So Hard?

  • Posted on March 27, 2011 at 7:07 pm
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This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series Follow The Money

Because, it is my Mother.

A few people have asked, why do I let all the crap bother me so much. Why do I go off the deep end with BCS, after all they are doing their best.  But are they?

Right now we are beginning a Federal Election, and it is now, when our voices can be heard the loudest. Right now, is when we can actually make a difference to what is accepted, what isn’t. Things like Health Care, like Supplementing the income for Seniors.

Narrow Minded?

I don’t think so, because other than death & taxes, growing old is right up there as being almost a certainty. Everyone, from my 34 year old wife David, to the newest born baby in the Nation, being old is in their future.

How we care for our elderly, says a lot about our values, our ethics, our morality.  Ignoring them, treating them like just excess baggage says we are cruel, callous, and indifferent. Yet, that is exactly how we do treat our Elderly.  YES, there are some very good people out there, like Yvette, Tracy, and our Doctor, Ted Rosenberg.  Problem is, there aren’t enough of them.

And it comes from the top.  If we have a government that fails to care about the needs of our elderly, why should anyone beneath them care? Why should BCS attempt to hire qualified personnel, insure they are doing their job, if Governments refuse to monitor them, or fund them properly? Why should companies like BCS worry about the quality of care, when Governments give them carte blanch contracts, without setting any standards, or insuring that those standards set, are actually followed?

This is why choosing our next Prime Minister is important. IF Stephen Harper is more willing to bankroll over priced Jets than a proper Guaranteed Income Supplement for the Aged, then what does that say about our compassion, our values?

We need a Government that cares about its people, not its corporate entities.

We need a Government that is about protecting our social programs, not selling them off to Private Interests, because it is easier than insuring those programs are properly funded and staffed.

That is why it has to be… Anyone But Harper

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Brothers Keeper

  • Posted on March 27, 2011 at 8:35 am
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This entry is part 4 of 8 in the series Follow The Money

Are We?

To be honest, I think we have moved away from the old time morals and values, where we held the needs of all people, to be important. We used to think that people shouldn’t go hungry, that they needed Medical treatment, irrespective of how much money they earned, had.

There was a time when we actually cared about our neighbours. Hell we knew who they were, we talked with them over the fence, or visited with them.  It isn’t quite that way anymore, least not as much as it once was.

Stephen Harper calls himself a Conservative. Gordon Campbell said he was Liberal Conservative, but those are just words.  Being a conservative, is about fiscal restraint, about protecting people, with a mix of Government & Private Business.  It is about Government protecting people, by insuring certain standards are maintained, kept, and even improved upon.

Things such as health care, as food safety. Those are the roles of Government, and yet Harper & Campbell do neither. They instead push for letting Business set the standards, and for us, to cough up the money for it.

Private Health Care, Private Pensions, are fine, IF you can afford it.  Yet we can’t.  The average person cannot afford the luxury of such things, when there is no protection, no enforcable standards.

I am a Conservative.

Odd I know, but I believe in Government doing its job, which is to provide safeguards, and to make sure all citizens have the same opportunities. I don’t believe in elitism, nor do I believe in Entitlement. I just know, in my heart, that we need to care for all people, and yes, especially those who don’t have wealthy families, or vast incomes. We need to show compassion, not just concern over the bottom line.  I want value for my money, which means I want trained professionals, not just anyone off the streets, to care for the elderly, for the disadvantaged.

And that is why I can never see myself supporting anyone like Stephen Harper & his brand of Conservatism.   It just isn’t right.

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Accreditation Canada

  • Posted on April 26, 2010 at 8:22 am
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Is it real? Or is it just window dressing to make companies look good, that they adhere to some standard, that a third party has verified?

Beacon Community Services has their logo on their front page, so I thought I’d give it a click, to see what it is about.  Mainly because I find the standard of care provided by Beacon Community Service to be SUB STANDARD.

In searching the associated website, I find some interesting things, such as no easy means of the public to actually participate.  IF it is there, not easy to find, but perhaps after some digging I can find something.

Lots of info on how to get accredited, and naturally a list of nice sounding goals too, but are they practical?  Do they simply require a fee to join, sign up and declare they meet those criteria, then get to use the seal?

In going through the site, it is apparent to me, that this is just a scam.  Maybe in other branches it has some validity, but frankly it doesn’t provide the consumer, the end user, with any information.  It is like saying NEW & IMPROVED on a bottle of laundry detergent.

ACCREDITATION CANADA may have standards, that it says its clients adhere to, but there is no way to verify what those standards are, unless you want to pay them some money, or how they actually insure that their clients meet those standards, and maintain them.

In other words, it is simply a way for bogus operations, to pass themselves off as being up to snuff, as both VIHA & BEACON are listed as clients.  AND from reading the site, to me, all that means is they paid some cash to get some standards, say they complied with it, and got a nice shiny little image to display on their sites, along with a certificate for the brick and mortar locations.

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