Gratitude towards the pioneers and architects

Dear Editor; Gratitude towards the pioneers and architects of corporate tax cuts, corporate greed, austerity, privatization, destruction of public services, collective bargaining and the clear and decisive attack on the working and middle class as was found in the article in the April 9th issue of the Kincardine News is to say the least misplaced. The Klein and Harris (as Harris is mentioned in the article) mantra is a throwback to the economic destruction created in the Mulroney, Thatcher and Reagan era and a harbinger of such things as the tea party and the wanton disregard of the needs of working people found in today’s conservatives, republicans and their associated media bullies / masters. This ilk of people has no right to gratitude as they have “off shored” the work of millions of people, throwing these same people into unemployment and under employment. They then used the excuse of tax cuts to encourage economic development while producing few jobs and providing industry the opportunity to accumulate hundreds of billions of dollars. These two steps ultimately lead to what is likely the most important part of their plan-destruction of any organized opposition. This was accomplished by legislating away social safety nets and doing all things possible to destroy trade unions while ensuring any future work created is done so in a non-union environment to limit any possibility that people may be able secure decent wages, pensions for a dignified retirement and safe workplaces. The foregoing and other items such as balanced budgets on the back of workers, attacks on pensions and public services and workers, destruction of the wheat board and intolerance are merely a few more of the of the legacies that we could do without and more of the reasons to show zero gratitude to any and all of those aligned with any of those mentioned in the article published on the 9th of April. Looking at Klein and their genre through this prism gives not one shred of reason for gratitude. Dave Trumble Kincardine