When you go to a gas bar and have to pay
inflated price for gasoline, you start to think of what it
means to live in a supply/demand society.
It means only the bottom line matters and
industry is allowed to charge whatever the market will bear
without regard for the effect on society.
It applies to all our needs, including
medical services. In previous times, it was a cost-plus system
which helped maintain a fair cost for all.
Now it has become a system of easy
availability for those who can afford to pay and too bad for
those who can't.
If the Liberal government wants to get
re-elected, it should take a page from Trudeau and take control
of the profiteers who are only interested in the bottom line
without regard to the effects on all of us, as in New
Orleans.
George McKee
Falconbridge