The future should have been better for my children

I started this blog because I was alarmed by what governments were doing in the name of public health.  Originally, I thought COVID was just stupid people doing stupid things out of fear.  By the time I started the blog I had come to admit that malice had a lot more to do with it than stupidity.  Although with government, stupidity is always a significant factor.

So, what this blog became was my comments on government tyranny that was by no means confined to COVID.  COVID was just the most blatant example.  Sadly, governments do evil things all the time and if I judge by impacts on my own life COVID is not even the worst thing the Canadian government has done.  To me the worst thing my government has ever done was to steal my children’s future.

I hesitate to say I grew up poor.  I always had clothes, food, and a roof over my head.  But describing us as even lower middle class would be generous.  My father gave me what he could, which was more than what his father had been able to give him.  Now my brothers and I have all been able to build lives and have even more than our father had.  Canada was a country where every generation had more than the last.

That Canada was a great country.  It fills me with great sadness to understand that country no longer exists.  The sadness turns to anger when I think about what that means for my children.  They will be the first generation that will have less than their parents.

Their key measure of immobility, which shows how tightly a child’s income rank in their late 20s and early 30s correlates with their parents’, increased by 21 percent from 0.202 to 0.245 between the 1963 and 1985 cohorts. For early Millennials born in the early 1980s, parental income became more determinative of outcomes compared to Boomers and Gen-Xers. The bulk of the mobility deterioration occurred for children born between 1970 and 1975, with continued erosion for those born through the mid-1980s.

The data reveals a critical pattern: The system’s greatest failure isn’t that the poor can’t reach the top; it’s that they increasingly can’t reach the middle.

That is from very good essay that you can find here.  The essay goes on to discuss many of the reasons, but all the reasons have the same root cause, poor government.  Canada has everything it needs to be great except the most important thing, good governance.  We have a country that should not have a care in the world.  Instead, we have a country full of problems.  The worst part is that I cannot think of a single problem we have that was not caused by a combination of government incompetence and malfeasance.

I wrote this post on Remembrance Day after watching the ceremony.  What struck me was how old most people were who took part in the ceremony.  It was people my age clinging to the memory of what Canada once was.  In a way it is a curse to be old enough to remember what Canada was and what it could have been.  It should have been much better than this.  My children deserve the chance to do better than me.  Politicians stole that from them.  Could there be anything more evil than that?