Contrary to public opinion, crime does pay and it pays big time!
Just ask Ernest Anderson, founder of Golden Gate Investments, a company that bilked investors out of millions of dollars. Anderson has yet to see a jail cell. Ask Peter Pocklington, former Principal Group and Gainers owner who bilked investors and the Province of Alberta out of millions of dollars and has yet to see any jail time. Ask any Ponzi schemer and any other white-collar criminal that has bilked investors out of millions and only, maybe, perhaps, gets a slap on the wrist while investors are left penniless.
Ask any drug dealer around the world and one can see that crime indeed pays. Crime offers impunity from the law as these criminals have the money that affords the best slime ball lawyers in the country. Crime also offers one a lifestyle way beyond the ability of the everyday blue- or white-collar worker. Crime is an economy all on its own.
Ask Ed Stelmach and the rest of the politicians and department heads who bilk taxpayers out of millions of dollars every year in wages, bonuses and pension liabilities. It’s downright criminal for public servants to become millionaires on the backs of taxpayers. Governments around the world are going broke as they cannot seem to balance the books and yet demand that taxpayers pay off debt and invest for their retirements. I understand the need to invest in retirement but why is it that politicians do not? If I need cash for retirement and did not have it, I would have to sell off all my property. Should not Stelmach have to save for retirement or sell his farm or other investments to make ends meet? Alas, who am I but a taxpayer of the lowest form who has no ability to change things and must go with the flow.
Mmmmm, I’m thinking of ways.
Greg Jackman, St. Albert
