Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Is there really a difference?

I want to vote....to exercise my right to choose my provincial leader, but in the end will it really matter who I vote for?  I would vote NOTA (none of the above) in a snap if it were available but it's still not.  So I am faced with a choice between leaders with hardly an observable difference between them. 

Essentially they are all campaigning on the same ideas, except that each one says that that they will do more of it; hire more police, more doctors, more nurses, be tough on crime etc...

Where is the debate?  Where is the candidate that will stand up and speak something fundamentally different.  Lets ask the tough questions....is hiring more nurses going to fix our medical system?  Is being tough on gangs really going to curb gang violence?  Is putting more police on the street going to deter criminals?

No one wants to upset anyone, so they just tell us what we want to hear, only more so...
It's time to ask the fundamental questions; why do we have the problems we have, what causes them and whats the easiest way to fix the problem in a way that leaves us with our freedom.