BAMBOOZLED

They have been BAMBOOZLED!!! Quick call the police. NO WAIT! On second thought that might not be such a good idea. Police + Students = Well you know. For the love of GOD (sorry to all my religious friends out there) are we seriously going to go down this road? Are they actually expecting us, after nearly 14 weeks of this absolute nonsense to believe that what they agreed to isn't what they signed, which in fact isn't what they signed to agree too! Confused? You bet! Need a CEGEP or University degree to understand it? You bet! Understand this though just when you thought there was some clearing air of all that tear gas smoke you were WRONG! The deal that was a deal that isn't a deal that should have been a deal that could have been a deal....is well no deal at all!

Yes ladies and gentlemen of our tax paying society the poor students were BAMBOOZLED by the big bad Charest and his willing accomplices. The dirty, smelly, old government machine just took advantage of those poor desolate students and ran rough shot all over them. YES THEY DID, i tell you! Not important is it that three major labour union representatives from the FTQ, CSN and CSQ were present at the negotiation to hold their hands through the process. Not important that the details were provided in every major newspaper, TV news program and Internet site available to man (and woman). NOOOO...Its not important that everyone (and yes i mean everyone) appears to be saying that the agreement the students signed was precisely what they agreed to verbally. No sir, none of that is important. You know why? Because we the people paying 83% of a post secondary students education truly believe that those poor, peaceful, food stamp requiring, can't afford a new I phone students have been BAMBOOZLED. Its a travesty, call the international court of appeal. The repression is suffocating, i don't know how much longer those poor kids can hang on.....someone call 911 its terrible.


Here is where they should see the value of a good education. Before you decide to go up against the big dogs its maybe prudent to get prepared. By prepared i don't mean, blocking roads, marching down the street half naked, throwing rocks or blockading buildings. By prepared I did mean getting an education, increasing your knowledge base, getting real world experience (and no your trip to Cancun does not qualify as real world experience). There should be nothing more obvious to the 179,000 striking students then the fact that they are not at all prepared to play in the big league. No that is reserved for the piranha's that swim in our political and union pools. Being prepared for something beyond rock throwing, glass breaking and parades requires much more time and energy. A good deal of which comes from the 4 to 7 years it takes to get a a university degree. So now is your chance to high tail it back to class, to gain some political points, to build on your 14 weeks of dedication to, ''the cause''. Are you going to take advantage of this opportunity? It appears not.

So based on this i have something i would like to share with you. Call it wisdom. Yes I know you'll say I'm old and out of touch with ''YOUR'' world. That i am tainted by to many years of being repressed by the big bad government man. I am not though, i assure you; Even if i don't know who Justin Beiber is or the fact i don't care. Or the fact that i still use a cell phone that actually has real life buttons you have to push on a pad. Or that the last time i tweeted was while looking at the birds outside in the bird feeder. EVEN given all these lacks i still have something valuable to share. It is this. There comes a time when you have to be able to see further then the nose on your face. When you actually have to take the points you can get even if it means the score board shows you have less points then your adversary. You also have to learn the concept of compromise; you'll learn this when you get divorced..ah..i mean married. Compromise doesn't mean defeat, less points on the board does not necessarily spell defeat, especially if its a best out of 7 series. One game at a time my young friends (that is a sports analogy i know you might not know what sports are any more...look it up on Wikipedia). You have to understand that life experiences are like a filing cabinet. You fill it up as you go along and from time to time you go back to it to take out parts that you have kept there to help you face a variety of lifes challenges.  This gives you strength in winning future battles.

Now that i have shared that with you are you ready for the most important thing i have to share? Here it is and it comes from a guy called the ''BOSS'' (you won't know him either his music is much to progressive (or old) for you). He once said, ''blind faith in your leaders or in anything, will get you killed!'' The people you think are leading you, your association leaders, the union leaders, the grey haired 1960's activist journalist and the self serving opposition politicians. They aren't helping you. OH NO! They have their own agenda's and they have absolutely nothing to do with yours! What they are doing is leading down a path. It isn't a pretty one. Its one full of dead ends, wrong turns and disaster. They are mortgaging your future and your energy on their personal aspirations. This you need to understand more then anything. You need to open your eyes and see that the being bamboozled by someone is never any fun, but what is even less fun is when your, BAMBOOZLING YOURSELF!