What would happen if...

Imagine if all entrepreneurs went collectively on strike.

There would be
No grocery stores,
No pharmacies,
No garages,
No restaurants,
No coffeeshops,
No gas stations,
No physiotherapy, or chiropractor clinics,
No cell phone companies,
No cable or news shows,
No Facebook,
No computers,
No clothing retailers,
and no other businesses...

Unless the government deemed them as essential.

And they were continued using public funds to support operational expenses.

The government has already proven they cannot run anything important.

Look at our medical services or educational services, if you're not sure.

When education and healthcare are managed privately,
It costs more.
You don't wait 6 months for an MRI,
And you don't wait 8 hours in Emergency to see a doctor about a cracked rib.

Government is not good at managing business.
They are really good at spending money.

There are two types of organizations: Those who give and those who loot.

The givers are the most successful. They build dreams on hope: hope for themselves, hope for their children, hope for the community, hope for the future.

The looters are selfish. They are in the minority. They leave a bad taste for all the givers. And for that, governments establish processes and laws to protect the innocent from the anyone who could be a looter (both the good and the bad).

Government officials don't talk about their dreams.
Dreams can't exist when the lifecycle is only 4 and 8 years.

Governments hype on Hope. It's not the same Hope we believe.
A government's hope is a strategy to sell the public on hopeful candidates.
We hope this time it will be better and it never is.
We hope this leader will give us a solid foundation.
And when that hope lingers like a stale fart, we fire his ass to allow for a new Hope to present himself.

Elected officials eventually become looters. Long after their time is up, they loot from a pension plan contributed to by our tax dollars.
Who will be the first elected official who will repeal his pension for benefit of the taxpayers?

Governments can't and won't solve any of our socio economic problems. They act like they want to help but they can't.
Fundamentally they are looters.

We need industry to help us.
We need the givers to step up.
The good corporations are the only hope we truly have to make our lives better.

As a child, my parents taught me an important lesson: get up and go to work despite how I felt. The world does not wait for the lazy.

I hear of problems in my province about the debt, about the tax base and the lack of industry to support the provincial deficit. And all I think about is the lesson about going to work.

It's time to get to work.
It's not time for vacation.
It's not time to have more time off.
It's time to work more.
It's time to work harder.
It's time to stop taking.

When the cupboards are bare and the well is dry, who will we blame then?
We can no longer be looters when it comes to our province.

I'm talking about all looters: government, private industry, individuals, and citizens.
It's time to get to work.
Stop with the statutory holidays.
Stop with increased taxation.

If the answer is get rid of industry, then be done with it.
And see where that gets us.

If the answer is to cut back on services, then do it.
And see where that gets us.

If the answer is to get rid of the current governmental system, then be done with it.
And see where that gets us.

The time for talk is over.
It's time to get to work.

I yearn for someone who will finally speak the truth and stop bullshitting us.
No more politics.
No more half truths.
No more gamesmanship.

We cannot continue down this path to insolvency and expect it to change on its own.

The provincial debt is increasing despite the lack of an economic recession.

That means we're spending more money than we have.
Do that in your personal life and you'll lose your home.
Do that in politics and you get a raise.

Something is really messed up.
And it's not just my province with the small tax base.
It's all of them.