I honestly cannot believe some the things I see and hear. This is what I mean.
Since I don’t have cable, my only frame of reference to standing in line is from personal city-life experience. And I complain about a line of any length. That was until a news program showed long-winding amusement park-like lines where people looked anything but amused.
As I was walking home, I noticed that cars were waiting at a green light for over two and half blocks, which during a pandemic is kind of scary. Then I saw the TTC driver standing at the back of the new streetcar holding a pole and pushing something onto the streetcar cable. In this day and technological age, transit drivers still have to manually maneuver cables on brand new streetcars?
A recent study states that half of the world’s working population of 3.2 billion will become unemployed due to COVID-19. That is an alarming number. Maybe someone from those 1.6 billion, soon to be unemployed people can invent or innovate a mechanism to keep the TTC drivers in their streetcars and keep all forms of traffic moving.
Employers want to rehire their former employees for when they open but there is a bit of a problem. Most of those employees would rather stay at home and receive the $2,000 a month, CERB money than go back to work. I guess they forgot that the only reason they qualified for the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit was because the employer they don’t want to go back to work for gave them a job in the first place which allowed them to qualify for the CERB to begin with. I am pretty sure one or some of those 1.6 billion soon to be out of work people will go work for those employers, so they won’t have too much of a problem.
One question that kept coming up after Prime Minister Trudeau’s daily briefing was, “What is the government going to do to help seniors who have lost money in the stock market?” Prime Minister Trudeau has sidestepped that question each time. My answer would be, “Nothing. You knew you were retiring soon and you should have moved your money into something safer long ago. That is what every good financial planner knows and should have told you. By the way, are these the same taxpayers, (or should I say tax takers) who want to know how we, as Canadians, are going to pay down the $2.52 billion dollar plus and ever-growing deficit?” I hope not but I am guessing some of them are.
As usual I could go on, yet I won’t.
Here is a link to, Behind the Blog. Today’s post is called, Before COVID-19 and Now,
Thank you for reading, A. Rebel’s Rant! ;D
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