Letter: Pot calling kettle black
Well, I should have seen it coming from the bumper stickers on the campaign truck; It’s not a huge surprise that Rosalyn Bird is so pro-American that she’d use her MLA platform as critic of citizen services to call out Premier Eby for “putting politics before people” and “grandstanding” while lending a voice for Elon Musk.
Goat Editor Hall did a great job on this file, particularly with his final statement saying that Musk’s Starlink system is readily available to consumers, which pretty much nullifies her position… that is if she was really basing this soap box diatribe on helping remote Northern citizens. It appears to me to be a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
Politicking and grandstanding as this appears to be, Bird then goes on to allude to Eby wanting to punish Starlink boss, and lead for the U.S.’s new D.O.G.E. (the Department of Government Efficiency), Elon Musk, whom she has diminished to “Trump affiliated”. The laughability of B.C. wounding Musk economically is hilarious. And the apparent world’s richest man is a great deal more than ‘affiliated’. With Musk standing and speaking in the oval office by the seated Trump, Musk’s young son X whispered to Trump to “Shush”, and “You aren’t the Real President.” To which Trump, a pathological egomaniac on most fronts, just ate it.
Musk’s team, set to create a new financial trajectory for our American neighbors, somehow fails to address the elephant in the room: himself and the uber-wealthy, of which American’s number 25 of the world’s 50 richest people. The .01%, the uber-billionaires and ultra wealthy just below them, get continued tax loopholes, it seems, while millions of kids supported by school lunch programs will go without. Efficiency at its best. Clearly this will “Make America Great Again”. A 2% tax on the Oligarchs would not hurt them one iota, but it would go a long way toward solving all of America’s financial woes.
Most Canadians still have a choice to further fill Musk’s coffers or not, while the 350 million or so Americans have that completely removed considering the mass interrelationship of Musk to the corporate military industrial complex and now their financial and governmental system.
But rather than focus on the dumpster fire to the south of us, pots and kettles blackened by the toxic smoke aside, B.C. politicians should be focused on it’s own bullsh#t, such as the bipartisan love-in with the biomass industry which is set to reduce our existing life-giving primary ecosystems (that all of us, and our planet depend on) to pellets to be burned in former coal fired power plants in Japan and the U.K. as a ‘solution’ to climate change, never minding the fact that the deforestation, transport, refining, and the inefficiency of the fuel comparison all add up to this being a demonstrably false claim.
But jobs are jobs right? And the sacred cow of the clearcut economy can never be challenged.
Rob Mercereau
Dunster, B.C.
