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Opinion
March
2005
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Dear
Editor,
Between
1970
and
1995
the
bottom
seventy
percent
of
Canadian
income
earners
lost
about
eight
billion
dollars,
which
the
top
thirty
percent
gained.
What
does
this
mean
to
you
and
me?
This
is
the
most
clearly
defined
proof
that
the
middle
and
lower
classes
are
being
slowly
and
systematically
driven
into
further
poverty
by
the
wealthy
few.
Since
the
election
of
Gordon
Campbell's
Liberal
party
this
trend
has
been
accelerated
and
we
are
now
clearly
seeing
the
results
as
smaller
business
leaders
such
as
John
Brink
(
a
previous
supporter
of
the
Campbell
Liberals)
are
now
realizing
that
the
new
legislations
created
by
the
B.C.
Liberals
are
solely
directed
at
giving
the
largest
corporations
the
greatest
opportunities
to
absorb
or
destroy
the
smaller
businesses.
This
is
a
prime
example
of
how
the
lowest
seventy
percent
of
income
earners
are
being
driven
into
lower
paying
lifestyles.
The
same
is
true
for
our
logging
truck
drivers
who
are
now
complaining
that
they
are
driving
for
nothing
as
wages
are
now
dictated
by
Canfor
whose
primary
function
is
to
increase
profits
for
the
wealthy
owners
and
shareholders.
Since
corporate
power
now
rules
our
government,
they
are
in
complete
control
of
our
destinies
and
our
own
politicians
are
the
ones
selling
us
out.
When
corporations
demand
lower
tax
rates
the
politicians
give
in
under
the
threat
that
if
they
do
not
lower
rates
the
businesses
will
move
on
to
another
more
business
friendly
country.
Even
in
our
own
country
one
province
increases
its
tax
credits
to
an
industry
in
an
attempt
to
steal
the
industry
from
another
province
pitting
Canadian
against
Canadian
in
a
drive
to
wrestle
greater
profits
at
the
cost
of
needed
tax
dollars.
Corporate
taxation
is
a
corner
stone
of
the
funding
for
a
great
deal
of
our
social
safety
net
and
all
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The
Doers
&
Run
Chico
Run
April
4th
Fyre
(61
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Brunswick)
This
ain't
your
grandma's
indie
rock.
But
if
it
is,
she's
pretty
cool.
CFUR
Radio
is
proud,
and
smug,
to
present
the
most
amazing
indie
poprocksynth
show
to
hit
Prince
George.
This
April
4tn,
the
chosen
few,
well.
..those
who
buy
tickets,
will
be
allowed
to
feast
their
eyes
and
ears
on
not
one,
but
two
(!)
of
BC's
finest
bands,
Run
Chico
Run
and
The
Doers.
Run
Chico
Run
is
a
two-piece
from
Victoria.
Oddly
enough,
two
people
are
all
you
need
to
play
drums,
keyboards,
guitars
and
sing.
When
trying
to
describe
Run
Chico
Run's
latest
album
Shashbo,
the
terms
swirl-pop,
space-rock,
and
spaza-matazztronica
come
to
mind.
Robots
with
guitars,
ET
with
a
drumkit,
lawnmowers
with
synthesizers...
you
get
the
point.
(More
info
at
www.runchicorun.com).
Now,
The
Doers,
they
offer
up
a
whole
different
kind
of
indie
rock.
Imagine
bass
heavy
bands
like
The
Minutemen,
Beat
Happening,
and
Polvo.
Now
add
to
it
some
great
malefemale
lead
vocals,
and
you've
shaken
yourself
an
indie
rock
cocktail...
and
they
have
Mike
Watt
cred;
look
into
it.
(More
info:
www.thedoers.com).
All
of
this
fabulousness
will
be
going
down
at
the
sexy
new
venue
in
town,
Fyre.
Tickets
are
$10
for
CFUR
Members,
and
$12
for
non-members.
You
can
purchase
them
at
CFUR
Radio,
CNC
Students'
Association
Office,
and
Books
&
Co.
More
info
can
be
yours
by
calling
960-song,
or
emailing
infocfur.ca.
This
event
is
a
CFUR
fundraiser,
so
come
check
out
some
great
music
and
help
us
out
at
the
same
time.
Bryndis
Ogmundson
CFUR
Music
Director
MIlGfmB
Zone
Ron
Marino,
President
&
CEO
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The
loss
of
this
revenue
contributes
again
to
the
increased
wealth
of
the
few
at
the
cost
of
the
many.
This
is
why
Gordon
Campbell
could
claim
B.C.
was
financially
in
trouble.
The
lower
and
middle
class
people
are
being
used
by
the
wealthy
as
a
form
of
income
to
be
used
and
discarded
when
the
whim
suits
them.
This
is
why
unions
were
developed
in
the
first
place
to
protect
the
vast
majority
of
workers
from
exploitation
by
the
rich.
This
is
why
being
tied
to
labour
is
not
the
evil
thing
that
the
Liberals
would
have
you
believe.
Who
do
you
support?
The
wealthy
few
or
the
huge
middle
and
lower
income
classes?
If
we
the
common
people
do
not
act
now
to
reverse
corporate
raiding
of
our
very
livelihood
then
soon
we
will
also
be
living
in
a
third
world
country
run
by
the
wealthy
few.
The
recent
advertising
that
promoted
the
great
job
the
B.C.
Liberals
have
done
at
making
our
province
"the
best
place
on
earth"
were
directed
at
the
wealthy
not
the
common
man
and
if
you
doubt
this
fact
realize
that
each
time
one
of
those
ads
aired
that
money
spent
would
have
performed
an
estimated
eleven
surgeries.
Instead
of
lowering
surgical
waiting
times,
this
money
was
spent
in
an
attempt
to
make
our
medical
system
seem
unsustainable
while
trying
to
sway
the
opinions
of
the
lower
and
middle
classes
to
vote
for
the
same
people
who
would
see
us
under
the
control
of
the
wealthy.
The
time
is
now
to
stand
up
and
say
we
will
not
be
used
as
a
commodity
for
the
wealthy
and
save
our
children
from
an
even
worse
fate
as
these
policies
become
more
entrenched
in
our
society.
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