Let your voice be heard. Don't keep it all inside. Send a letter to the editor...any and all editors. Contrary to popular belief, it will make a difference – to you and your community. Let everyone  know when you've been wronged or righted. It's the only way to facilitate changes for the better.
Even if it isn't published, you've got it off your chest and that in itself will provide some relief. You will also gain more confidence and won't feel bullied – and it will affect everything you do.

Television stations peruse the Letter to the Editor section of newspapers daily to see if they are stories that should be told.

Squandermania & Government

Squandermania: prodigious squandering, usually by a government. We can all be watchdogs for the government. Add links to any Squandermania you find to this Facebook page, so that we all know what they are trying to hide on the back pages of the Vancouver Sun, et al. Some newspapers that are not in cahoots with hiding government corruption are always accepting Letters to the Editor – here are a few of my previous ones. Feb 4, 2011 - Nanaimo Daily News: We must stand up to government over HST Aug 3, 2010 - Nanaimo News Bulletin: Patients wait in pain for medical solution Mar 18, 2010 - Nanaimo News Bulletin:  Premier overstayed welcome Here is a partial list of local newspaper editors in the Nanaimo and surrounding area – with some you can always try to sneak the truth in. editor@nanaimobulletin.com news@nanaimodailynews.com (edit to 200 word count) info@newswire.ca info@bbbvanisland.org provletters@theprovince.com mpadgham@vancouversun.com sunletters@vancouversun.com

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We must stand up to government over HST

We can stop this dictatorship by standing our ground on important issues without anger or frustration. We said NO to HST already and no amount of further trickery or bullying will make us say YES. The government is counting on us to be wishy-washy mindless sheep who will forget about the HST and the fact that we stood up for ourselves.

The HST is a prison where we will be ‘locked in’ to the GST – a tax we can walk away from with the right party. It is a win-lose situation where the corporations win and the consumers lose their hard-earned dollars. The only win-win is a single fair Provincial Tax for everyone and to stop paying GST to Ottawa for services that don’t serve us.

Let us think for ourselves and stand by our decisions when intelligence guides us. Otherwise, someone else is thinking for us – and that leaves us poor and powerless.  

Patients wait in pain for medical solution

How bad is health care in BC? It is so bad that that you can get bumped from surgery the day before it’s due – even when it’s emergency surgery. That’s the true picture of the internal workings from inside our government’s ‘band-aid legislation’ towards basic human life services that created our health care system. This kind of ‘duct tape health care’ that taxpayers have literally broken their backs for will not allow those backs to be fixed. It thus follows that this same system that we strive to maintain will find our children wanting when their backs are broken, too.

The arrogant disregard for a basic quality of life that this government has for the people is beyond appalling – it is mismanagement at its worst, bordering on criminal neglect. The wonderful health care system that we have been touting to the world simply doesn’t exist, except in our dreams and broken campaign promises.

The saddest part is that there are many people that have been in chronic pain for years and the hospitals won’t open the operating rooms.  At the same time, the emergency room is a virtual bottle-neck of all kinds of sick and injured people waiting hours only to leave with a prescription in one hand and a campaign promise in the other.

As a parent, I want to ensure to best of my ability that the cornerstone of health care will support a foundation that my child can count on to keep him healthy when he gets to be my age. I used to think that I was covered by a great health care system, but am now finding that I have been naïve to the point of delusional since I have been struggling with chronic pain for nineteen months with nary a glimmer of hope to be free from it. I normally live a pretty health life style by walking one to two miles a day to maintain optimum health and use quantum biofeedback therapy as a further prevention tool for disease. I would never have considered that a herniated disc would be so crippling of an injury and the wait so long until it could be fixed with all of these fine resources at my disposal.

Through this ordeal I’ve learned a lot about what is really going on with health care in my community, as well as other government services– and it looks like I have a lot more work to do to find an intelligent government that can handle the job properly. Yep, I'll get right on that – when my back is fixed.

Premier overstayed welcome

Gordon Campbell…You’re Fired.

Your services in the current position of the Premier of British Columbia are no longer required. I’m sure you know the reasons for the termination of your employment, but in case you are as far removed from reality as you are to the taxpaying people of BC who employ you, I will make them clear.

For one, you have failed to provide the services you promised when we hired you, beginning with your first duty in managing the province’s finances. Rather than being wealth-oriented, you have shown yourself to be incapable of managing our money to the point of instilling outrageous cutbacks to our life-basic health and child care providers, selling off our precious resources and extorting from organizations that are the very foundation of our infrastructure…to name a few.

For two, you have wasted more time and money by starting new and idiotic ways to extort more money from us. By the way, I know these stupid ideas are for the most part a distraction so you can conspire in some other underhanded scheme that won’t be exposed until it’s too late and that is the type of activity that is going to stop.

Going for three, the lazy people and the whiners do not pay your salary, the taxpayers do, which means that you work for us and not the other way around as you like to see it…we are not here to serve you or pay your ‘gambling with our money’ debts.

So, Gordon Campbell. Leave the truth about your past underhanded schemes on the desk when you go and take your co-conspirators with you, because they will be exposed eventually, too.