I am 35 minutes away from the beginning of October. I plopped down to write this just after being ushered home by wind and cold rain; after I finished the evening working an extra hour longer than I wanted to. It could have been worse: I could have still been stuck with the night shift that I should have been destined to work tonight; and I could have cycled instead of luckily choosing to drive my car.
During this past while, I have been given an inordinately large number of surveys to complete. I thought I should do one or two of them tonight while I'm still conscious. Everything regarding the union, stuff from the city about civic operations, work, to consumer surveys have been directed at me all at once. I have no complaints about the surveys themselves, it's just weird that they are showing up more frequently. Being one who is interested in demographics, and has been involved with research and development projects in the past, I regard them a bit more seriously than most other people do, with a little more appreciation. I welcome the chance to participate in anything that registers a factual say, and a glimmer of a chance for efficient resource usage. I laugh at those idiots who whine, complain and jabber on and on about politics and their opinion about how their city, province, or country should be run, and how their dues and taxes should be used, and then yet at the same time claim that they don't take the time or trouble to participate in surveys, or they'll get hostile about being forced to participate when the federal census season comes around: when the real information gets processed about how people are living, and what resources should or need to be directed to where. The survey today has more power than a simple stupid voting ballot. Unfortunately, a voting ballot has been rendered such that even the simple and the stupid get to vote. The non-participation of completing of a valid and poignant survey is an indication about how stupid and lazy, all bagged together with a don't-give-a-shit attitude, that a population is becoming. There should be a survey about that.
The only other upsetting thing about this onslaught of surveys is that it may be an indicator about tough times coming ahead economically in some sectors, where restructuring is being considered. Whether or not they do any good at rectifying anything remains to be seen.
Moments ago, I just heard the news about the government shut down in the states, all with this matter of people's access to health care. How bloody shameful! There was plenty of money to torch away with Iraq and Afghanistan, and inflicting harm in the effort to "secure" foreign nations, without too much opposition. And now, the "richest" nation on the planet, is stopped dead in its tracks when it comes to the subject of its government actually doing something to give health care for its own citizens. They have a problem they simply can't aim a missile at. They want to drop "Obamacare", but have no problem using "drop a bomb on" care out of a sense of retaliation. What an irony. It angers me that reports here on Canadian news are already drumming up the fear that this shut down in the US is going to create a massively negative impact here in our nation. Therefore, we'll be suffering from another nation's stupidity. I suppose their politicians and much of the American citizenry would rank high in the "Stupid, Lazy, Don't give a Shit" survey when it comes to healthcare. It's hard enough to get positive change for the healthcare system here; down there it would be like dealing with an absolute tyranny, especially in the more impoverished areas.
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