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In a recent poll by Ipsos Reid, carried out for Canwest News Service and Global Television, 71 per cent of Canadians are “really angry or upset” about skyrocketing gas prices. Duh!
Among other things were mad about our taxes, were mad about the lousy airline services, were mad about ticket surcharges were mad about text messaging fees, where even mad at Tibet, well not at Tibet really but it what’s happening in Tibet. On the eve of the Beijing Olympics, 43 per cent are angry about the Chinese government crackdown in Tibet.
It seems we have pent-up frustration, and we don’t have an outlet for our anger. Well I’ve got a couple of outlets, but I don’t think that it’s polite to mention them in mixed company. According to a new poll on the national outlook by Ipsos the angry population consists of two groups; 1 — 20% of the total — we’re the ones who are doing something to show our frustration and then there’s the other — 35% — who are bottling up their anger because they can’t “do anything about it.”
Baloney!
Gilbert Murphy is a 74-year-old horse rancher from the Williams Lake area. He had this to say about the above statement. “In the early days, when the Second World War was on, nobody wanted to fight Canadians. We had a reputation as a fierce bunch of fighting people, proud people. But politicians have made us into a wimp nation,” he says. http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=a69ee56d-a30f-4ea4-9a77-5f3df13f8006
Gilbert, I couldn’t agree with you more. That was exactly the case when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s.
Whenever the Liberals were in power between the 70s and late 90s there seemed to have been a definite diminishment of Canadian morals in the worldview. I still remember Jean Chretien’s facial expression when interviewed on American television about the horror that just occurred in New York after 9/11. The looks of disdain, if not in his words were very distinct in his expression. It was as if he was blaming them for being attacked by terrorists. Don’t quote me on this, but I think He mentioned something about their own foreign policy was to blame for their recent Injuries .I was extremely embarrassed for my country. It was as though I had just told my neighbour that all the people that were killed that day were their own fault. I was extremely happy to see that man defeated at the polls.
Recently, a London England newspaper reported that the only decent leader at the G-8 was Stephen Harper. I’m not exactly sure that that’s true, but it sure makes me feel prouder to be a Canadian than I did seven years ago when the Liberals were in power.

Getting back to a mad Canadian. My pet peeve of the moment is the gas prices that we’ve experienced in the past two or three months. One consolation is that we’re not the only people on Earth are suffering. Gas prices have gone up, if you don’t count some subsidies, equally throughout the world. It is causing major hardships in all sectors of our economy.
There seems to be a glimmer of hope on the horizon. The price last week went down from $149 per barrel to $123 per barrel. What really burns my butt is the fact that when the price of a barrel hits its high mark it only took the gas stations half a second to raise the prices to $1.49 a litre in my area. Now it’s been nearly 2 weeks since the price dropped by more than $20. Their sure taking their sweet time to bring it down to even $1.40 a litre.
I am happy that the population seems to be disturbed with what’s happening in the world around them. I would just be happier if they would be a little bit more vocal about it.

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