Medicare and Corporate Media
Jack Etkin, Victoria
Volume 26 Issue 1 & 2 | Posted: February 28, 2012
The corporate-owned media don’t work for us and they don’t care about us. They work for Corporate Canada, and their job is not to report the news or tell us the truth.
The corporate-owned media don’t work for us and they don’t care about us. They work for Corporate Canada, and their job is not to report the news or tell us the truth. Their job is to do what Corporate Canada tells them to do. And that’s what they do. Twenty-four hours a day… 365 days a year.
Every day, in every town and city in Canada, the Corporate-owned media mislead us and misinform us about all of the important issues of the day. And they make sure that ‘the real truth’ is kept very hidden. Only ‘The Corporate Truth’ is allowed.
One corporate-truth is that public health care doesn’t work and we have to privatize it before it bankrupts us. That is a corporate truth, and it’s all we are allowed to hear. But the real truth is that Corporate Canada is deliberately destroying our public health care system so they can privatize it and own it and get the profits they are ‘entitled to’.
The truth is that some very corrupt politicians are secretly taking billions of dollars a year from our hospitals, so that our public health care system can’t work. And they are giving those billions of dollars a year to their good friends the drug companies. And they have closed tens of thousands of hospital beds to make sure that people have to wait for surgery, and have to suffer and die in our emergency rooms. That is the real truth. And the media … their media … never says a word.
Thirty-five years ago our hospitals got about 45 per cent of total health care spending. Now hospitals get less than 30 per cent. And in a $180 billion a year health care system, that means a loss to our hospitals of over 20 billion dollars a year.
Twenty billion dollars a year of our money, taken from our hospitals – with the lion’s share of that money being given to the drug companies… and never a word in their media. That’s what we are up against in Canada, a totally corrupt and dishonest corporate-owned government and media who lie to us and betray us at every turn on every important issue.
The corporations and their media are our enemy, and we have to get rid of them if we want to save our country. Don’t believe the media, their job is to mislead us. They cannot be trusted. (jetkino@yahoo.ca)
Jack Etkin, Victoria