So, our doctors are pee'd. They rejected the government offer on their salary dispute.
People are suffering. There's no public service doctors to look after them. And of course, very few can afford a private hospital or clinic. Where does this all leave us?
We've had one crisis after the other. First Escom provided government with a five year plan. Government shot them down. Koeberg had a 'melt-down' after a bolt caused a amjor power failure. They suspected sabotage but our 'bak-oor' minister changed his story soon after. Me thinks Escom needed to proof how serious the situation was about to become. Not long after our whole country went into a frenzy with industry probably suffering the most. Black-outs became a way of life.
Then the water crisis arrived. Too much free water and electricity I say. Not enough water we said. Infrastructure rotting we said. Of course with the Soccer World Cup around the corner some people jumped. Our water is still of an absolute sub-standard and acceptable levels of Ecoli and the likes far exceed what's an acceptable standard anywhere in the world.
Guess what, as we bought generators and solar panels, we now have water purifiers. Boost to the economy one would think? Not the way the average John Doe is pushed beyond his means and pocket.
Nevertheless, 'n boer maak 'n plan. Our taxi associations are up in arms about the rapid transport system which they claim will put them out of work. Before the final game of the Confederations Cup they went on strike. They want this scheme, they want ownership, they want the money and the rights.
For the past couple of weeks our government doctors have been on strike. They want recognition for their hard work, their knowledge and their overtime. They want a better health system where machines don't break and water keep on flowing. They need electricity, they need medicine, they need equipment. Who can blame them?
My brother got wheeled out of the operating theatre at Johannesburg General (or whatever our black government is calling it these days) after heart surgery, layed in the corridor for two hours before anyone took any notice. Luckily for him the doctor did a good job.
In the meantime our government is feeling the pinch. They cannot provide as there's no money. The taxman is employing various specialists to try and get more money from the already depressed man in the street. Zimbabweans are flooding the country in search of jobs while the locals get government grants.
You cannot tax the worker to death in an environment where the jobless outnumber everyone else. You cannot priorities the jobless and there are so many of them in this country.
But the late Dr. Adrian Rogers (1931 – 2005) said it the best :
"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out
of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person
must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody
anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When
half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the
other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the
idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what
they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
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