Red Cross calendars
Received this proposal recently in the mail:
"I am a CBC Radio producer and am working to launch a new program early in the New Year.The show is called This I Believe.I think the program gives you the opportunity to have your voice heard,as one of forty prominent Canadians,in a way that will cause fellow Canadians to pause and reflect on the values we hold dearest as individuals and as a nation.
This is what I wrote and will be reading over the radio sometime in 2007
The Red Cross Calendar Story
This happened to me when I was still in my early teens going to high school down on the Avenues where the teachers never bothered to ask us any questions,just stood at the blackboard blabbitty blab-circumference of a circle blabbitty blab-dangling participle-blabbitty blabbitty blabitty -Ringgg-ringgg-ringg goes the bell
But we had one teacher,just one,the only in my four or was it five?-felt like ten years I spent in that place-one teacher who used to talk with us,I mean really talk and that was Mort Bain,young guy who always had something he wanted to talk with us about,asking us what we thought about this or that happening in the world and sir,we’d say sir Joe Pine says this,sir,and Joe Pine says that sir and Joe Pine was the local right wing talk show host of the time,right-always trashing those welfare bums and immigrants and “You guys are too stupid to live”he’d say ..And then one day-it was during Red Cross Calendar Campaign Week when all the students were asked to buy a Red cross calendar cause one dime will feed a kid in India for a month- one day Mort Bain came in and his face,which was always red was really red and holding up a Red Cross calendar he said
“Ya know the same government that’s got you selling these goddamn calendars for a dime just spent a million dollars to buy the gasoline they need to burn millions of bushels of surplus wheat out in Saskatchewan?..All that food they’re burning it.. just burning it ..Eh?.. as in what do we think?..Well ya know,we didn’t know what to think about a government doing something like that when hey,there we were selling Red Cross Calendars for a dime to feed a hungry kid in India in a month when,hey,the million bushels of wheat that they’re burning could just about feed everybody anywhere forever and so,“Well sir”I said,putting up my hand,”Well why don’t they just give the wheat away instead of wasting it ”
And Mort said well no,they couldn’t give the wheat away,no couldn't do that cause then the price of wheat would drop to zero and the economic system would collapse..what?..
“Then I think”I said,sort of thinking out loud,”I think we oughta get rid of that government”
And all these many many years later,I still believe that
"I am a CBC Radio producer and am working to launch a new program early in the New Year.The show is called This I Believe.I think the program gives you the opportunity to have your voice heard,as one of forty prominent Canadians,in a way that will cause fellow Canadians to pause and reflect on the values we hold dearest as individuals and as a nation.
This is what I wrote and will be reading over the radio sometime in 2007
The Red Cross Calendar Story
This happened to me when I was still in my early teens going to high school down on the Avenues where the teachers never bothered to ask us any questions,just stood at the blackboard blabbitty blab-circumference of a circle blabbitty blab-dangling participle-blabbitty blabbitty blabitty -Ringgg-ringgg-ringg goes the bell
But we had one teacher,just one,the only in my four or was it five?-felt like ten years I spent in that place-one teacher who used to talk with us,I mean really talk and that was Mort Bain,young guy who always had something he wanted to talk with us about,asking us what we thought about this or that happening in the world and sir,we’d say sir Joe Pine says this,sir,and Joe Pine says that sir and Joe Pine was the local right wing talk show host of the time,right-always trashing those welfare bums and immigrants and “You guys are too stupid to live”he’d say ..And then one day-it was during Red Cross Calendar Campaign Week when all the students were asked to buy a Red cross calendar cause one dime will feed a kid in India for a month- one day Mort Bain came in and his face,which was always red was really red and holding up a Red Cross calendar he said
“Ya know the same government that’s got you selling these goddamn calendars for a dime just spent a million dollars to buy the gasoline they need to burn millions of bushels of surplus wheat out in Saskatchewan?..All that food they’re burning it.. just burning it ..Eh?.. as in what do we think?..Well ya know,we didn’t know what to think about a government doing something like that when hey,there we were selling Red Cross Calendars for a dime to feed a hungry kid in India in a month when,hey,the million bushels of wheat that they’re burning could just about feed everybody anywhere forever and so,“Well sir”I said,putting up my hand,”Well why don’t they just give the wheat away instead of wasting it ”
And Mort said well no,they couldn’t give the wheat away,no couldn't do that cause then the price of wheat would drop to zero and the economic system would collapse..what?..
“Then I think”I said,sort of thinking out loud,”I think we oughta get rid of that government”
And all these many many years later,I still believe that
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