Rising household costs continue to affect Canadians and there is no relief in sight. Canadians, who are already finding difficulty in choosing between paying their bills or putting food on the table, will feel the squeeze continuing into the later half of 2011 and no doubt beyond that. It isn't just the costs of fuel and energy that are making things difficult; food prices have increased between 8-18 percent. People should expect another 5-7 percent hike in the price of groceries by the years end.

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Instead of dealing with these issues, it seems some of the political leaders of this country would rather tout their ability to create more jobs or fix the broken system that we call health care. I have yet to see the 600,000 or so jobs come to fruition that was promised to us with the implementation of the HST. What I would like to know is that if we vote for any of them, what are they going to do about the rising costs of everything? We can't escape it, but again, we hear nothing of it, only about how The Bloc wants to separate from Canada, or how the other parties want to form a coalition, or how Iggy doesn't show up for work or how Jack Layton has never formed the government etc. I do not care much about any of this stuff when I hear that people can’t even eat because they have bill collectors harassing them.

You can talk about job creation all you want guys, but in the end, unless that job is paying enough to cover the costs of inflation and such, it is meaningless. A few thousand minimum wage jobs are going to do nothing. Stephen Harper likes to focus on the economy and believes that by cutting taxes for the rich, somehow that will make the economy boom. The economy will continue to tank because no one can afford to buy anything. This is something that I can't grasp, perhaps because I am not an economist, but when the cost of living becomes a burden for many people, that equate to less people spending money to bolster the economy. The real world doesn't work the way some politicians believe it does. Making outlandish promises doesn't fix anything.

It sickens me to see stories about inflation and how we are all supposed to tighten our belts and be smart with our money posted on a website along side a story about the top 20 richest CEO's in Canada and how much they're worth; it's a slap in the face. Sure, people can get an education and become just like them, or can they? Short of seeking out student loans, most people can't afford to get post secondary education, and even if they do, the market is flooded with people just like you who also got an education. Post secondary education used to mean something but nowadays, it just isn't that impressive.

So what can one do? Not much, just live your life knowing that every dollar you earn will go into someone else's pocket making them rich while you slave away just to survive. Karl Marx had a vision of a class war where the poor would rise up against the rich, it's too bad that it never actually happened, or will happen.

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