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p 4 weekender may 271995 stux o picking on the poor a poor platform this provincial election has taken a distinct turn towards ugliness personally i find the attacks on welfare shameful i consider it a nasty poorly conceived kneejerk attack on what is far from ontarios most pressing economic prob lem im sorry folks but ifs not the people on welfare who are bankrupting this province but as the poorest and least organized group they are the easiest to attack why dont we hear more criticism of the bloated administrations of our health care and education systems how about huge corporations and their nonexistent tax x- i i m viewpoint alan shackleton contributions what about the bureaucracy of govern ment itself not to mention the absurd and overpaid number of politicians we have in our area alone we have municipal regional provin cial and federal politicians being paid by our tax dollars to look after our interests why do we have two school boards and so many trustees all these organiza tions seem to do is build real ly nice administrative offices these are areas where we can cut but we seem unwill ing to take on the tough work needed to reach solutions one of the reasons is because these organizations scream blue murder the moment we criticize them and they have the resources to fight back however attacking the least fortunate among us well that just seems to be fair game i dont like the tone of these attacks or those making them people in expensive suits badmouthing the poor offend me this impression that being adam by brian basset um excus6 meit4 not wti wmt wwt tqheumkwr ceuutm ortmt tcnof nakihrijustftvell wnomoreawm 1 n0tc0walnw6bummls isnt ewcw vwat i m w on welfare is like a paid vaca tion is nonsense the people who think its so easy obvi ously have no concept of what it is like to live in such a way constantly worried about money forced to have your entire life opened up to social workers degraded by the prospect of no work and no hope fd like to think most of the people i know are above tak ing the bread out of a poor mans hand why then this hysteria towards those on welfare what are we afraid of i think this election needs a better issue than picking on the poor the tribune weekender edition a mctroland community newspaper patricia pappas pumuher joann stevenson editorincbiel andrew hair general managerieditor debra welles director of advertising barry goodyear director of distribution vivian cneel business manager pamela nichols operations manager btouffvijk all enquiries 6402100 fax 6405477 6244 main st stouffville ont l4a1e2 igbbtjttbb ah enquiries 6629741 fax 8528741 8 brock stw uxb ridge on t l9p1f4 the tribune published every wednesday and saturday is one of the metroland printing pub lishing and distributing group of suburban newspapers which includes markham econo mist and sun ajax pickering news advertiser auroranewmarket era banner barrie advance brampton guardian burlington post cityparent cohingwood connection etobicoke 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you looked the crusty blue serge troglodytes that run the wheels of commerce in this country were suddenly unaccountably lighten ing up secretaries accountants salesmen and other office func tionaries were allowed to show up for work in casual attire the president of ibm appeared on the front page of the globe and mails report on business dressed in jack frasier slacks and a cashmere sweater my teller down at the local branch cashed my paycheque while wearing a tshirt and levis general motors of canada announced that its 5000 salaried workers would be permitted to wear jeans on fridays- providing they each contributed a loonie to the united way i was delirious at last after a lonely lifetime shuffling along in droopy but comfortable drawers and ratty runners vindication the rest of the world had finally noticed that dressing up is a pain in the butt and in the throat and feet and everywhere else business dress conspires to throttle and enslave the human body take the necktie what kind of sadist decided that what the men of this world really needed was a strip of cloth knotted like a gar- rote around their adams apples for eight hours a day but no need to wax apoplectic about the horrible constrictions of business attire any longer because the tycoons of com merce god bless em have final ly wised up or so i thought turns out i was premature the pinstriped pinheads at the top have had yet another change of heart the dress code backlash is underway first sign of it was a terse directive from mr dw munger vice president and gen eral director of personnel- for general motors of canada basi cally the memo says that jean days for gm employees are toast why because claims mister munger the wearing of jeans conflicts with gms efforts to set dress standards for salespeople the suits in the boardroom freaked because they feared many workers were too relaxed geez cant have that can we ah well i knew in my unkempt heart of hearts that the liberalization of business dress was too good to last no doubt other businesses will follow the gm lead and start placing their employees in polyester bondage once again not that it affects me personal ly if theres one job you dont have to dress up for its writing a newspaper column in fact mister munger if youre reading this i want you to know im naked