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When mean Jean Chretien punished Calgary for not electing a Liberal he closed CFB Calgary in punishment and moved the troops to Edmonton.The noble red man then rushed the base,kicked in the doors and occupied the housing which naturally services were already cut off.In anticipation of the closure,the reserve laid claim to the forthcoming freebie claiming ,"It's ours".Seeking public sympathy for all the terrible treatment the evil white man was forcing them to endure,reporters were invited to the Reserve.Joe Squirrelnuts' 5 member family was living in a plastic tent and chosen as the symbol of opression.Band leaders talked of getting grants from oil companies to buy lawn mowers and the like to be good homeowners like whitey.A Herald reporter did an in depth research and each band member gets $50,000 a year in Band money from oil royalties and Federal payments,tax free of course.Free medical,dental,eyeglasses,no taxes on gas/diesel and no GST on anything.So just why are they living in squalor?After the illegal occupation of the housing,the Feds took a hard stance saying they would be removed.The very next day the Feds declared noble red man could indeed keep the housing.Within a year noble red man successfully turned perfectly good housing into trash.The other side of the coin is that the rest of the housing was rented out pending disposal.I knew people renting there and they were nice houses.The same age,style that I grew up in as an Army brat.Every house was cleaned of asbestos,repairs done,painted inside and out,reshingled and some exterior esthetics done,raised up onto pylons and sold for a pittance.Done one at a time and the renters moved out in sequence.Lesson: don't tear up a house for firewood and you don't disturb the insulation. The proof: military families across Canada have raised families in the same style house on every military base in Canada for 50 years.Have you ever heard of 1 of the probably million+ people housed in them with asbestos related problems?So noble red man has no sympathy from me.If my take-home pay was a quarter million dollars a year with free health benefits I doubt I would be living in a polythene tent.The Casino won't pay taxes either and the huge revenues should be deducted from their Federal monies......but won't.That would be racist.On turning 18 each Brave gets a $40,000 payment.A few years ago Jimmy Snowshoe celebrated his 18th birthday by buying a truck.No licence,insurance,drunk to the hilt he drove through a 4-way stop and killed 5 innocent white people.Fortunately he died too.Fucking racist white man for driving on the road,huh?

People can always start a conversation by commenting on the weather.Here in Calgary our crumbling Hospitals are a daily subject.Hospital Administrators are always in denial mode......"There is no bed shortage..Staff are not stretched to the limit..Waiting times are not excessively long.." The reality is far different,though.The Peter Lougheed Hospital ambulance delivery side in Emergency has as many Police and EMS personnel waiting with a patient as the crowded public side waiting for help.EMS & Police cannot leave until a DR. signs in the patient.An ambulance with 2 EMS might be able to make 2 service calls a day.All this personnel and equipment held up and unable to effectively serve the public need.On the other side of the door it's standing room only and a 12 hour wait where a husband begs for a bed for his wife and told there is no bed.His wife miscarries and CEO Jack Davis says he's sorry.We elect our MLA's,our school board,our city alderhumans,our mayor,even an imaginary Senator yet this uneducated,ex-investigative reporter and typing instructor buffoon Ralph Klein says nearly 1,000,000 Calgarians don't have the intelligence to elect a Health Board.Only he knows what's best for us.So he creates an Alberta Senate, aka the CRHA and appoints washed up politicians and cronies.We have a new Premier and I call on Mr. Stelmach to dump this stagnant,unimaginative but highly paid Board and set things straight with an elected one.Then clean out most of the front-line managers in this now-ensconced bureaucracy who are likewise brought in not for any discernible abilities except loyalty to the Chief.Any front line worker will tell you the same thing about some of these managers.Just what does this Muhammad Rasheed,Board Member National Visible Minority Council,contact at [email protected],Fax 403-944-8060 actually do?His writings are all over the 'net so it's no breach of privacy.Just 1 example of many,many do-nothings.This is Ralph's legacy.I urge all to write Premier Stelmach and demand a change.New people with new ideas are needed and now is the time to demand it.What Ralphy giveth,Ed Stelmach can taketh.So write or email and demand a change for the better.Thank you. By the way,does anyone actually know who our elected imaginary Senator is?