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Whitby Ir Butt-ickin' Columnists do not expect Public sympathy. Not a bit o it. Tough as this job is, 600 words a week, cold, sunshine, vacation or high water. Preparations for this coluxn included reading letters to the editor of severaj Publications. That in itself, Of course, often qualifies as a delight. But I also read, from-cover to halfway through, the Sunday Sun-wel, you get the idea. Ites a tough job, but someone has to do it. Many letters, The Sun (the newspaper with ail its priorities on Page 3) and statementa from provincial cabinet ministers strike a conunon tone. The message writ large and clear: Wstl time to kick some butt with these teachers, welfare bums, school board, hsiallz students, overpaid doctors, nurses, you name it. What botheres me most is flotthat some People think this way. It's that right now, the mAjority supports the actions of the provincial governmnent, Kicking butt is good. Now kicking butt happens to be a basic human need. In the kicker's mmnd, the kicking inspires action and thiings get done. Right. In reality, the kickee gets hurt and fiustrated, and finda someone lower on the chain so he can "ick butt" tSo. And the new ldckee Iikewise kicks butt, and so on and so on,. right down to the poor innocent cat, who, just wanted a midnight snack and got ifted across the room for his trouble. lhe neo-conservative wave bustles with'frustration and anger at the state 0f the world. Now, we ail get frusîtrated and angry at times. Frustration and anger often produce specific results. Both'are excellent- tools for smashing stuif up, busting noses, neat stuif like that. When a hockey team gets behind by five goal s because they cant skate fast enough or shoot hard enough, frustration leads'to stick swinging and uppercuts.-Ites what you do when your skills are weak. Ask Don cherry. ets quicker a nd easier than learning te shoot and skate right. Today's political fr-ustrations could be caused by a variety of issues. Globajization. The computer revolution. The women's movement. A collapsing econOmy. That darned cat. What did not cause jobs te disappear and companies te lay off (downsize) huge numbers Of staff? Welfare recipients, teachers, docters, nurses,. Public servants. These have becme the cats9 in the current setting. Let's boot 'em about a bit anyway. The truth is that the economy has not been exactly sParkling over the past six years Or 80. A lot Of traditionai jobs have disappeared. The jobs that have been created have been largely for college and university graduates. And low-paying and part-time jobs in the service industry. (Care for a career flipping hamburgers?) A strange thing happons te People who have been fired. They tend te pay less income tai and sales taï than they did when they had jobs. Weir. So governments take in less money in incomes taxes and sales taxes. Deficits grow. Ask Bob Rae.The questionwe u dbeaknthogai this ~~ ~ a n 1 is si p e: w er re w-had d D o wwnlac un r I f I '!BYSJE"FAM BOUSE, CORDON STREET, C. 1898 This brick house was built by William Gordon in 1855 on the land now owned by the Whity Mnta HelthCenre.Fro 188 until 1912 when it was purchased bythe Provincial governrnent, it was the home of'John Smith. Menibers of the Smith, crawforth adTordk families are in this photo. The house was demnolished in 1978. a hrdk 10 YEARS AGO fromn the Wednesday, October 1, 1986 edition of the WBIMBY FREE PRESS *The body of a 6-Year-old missing Scarborough girl was fudi atsln akls weekend. oninFnulnPakag * Whitby lawyer Brian Evans !a seeking the Provincial Liberal nomninato orDra C entre. a i n f r D r a *Jack Hutehinson, head ofAnderson Collegiate's science departmentwnantoa wr for biology teachng. wo raioa wr * Jini AshleY bas rejoined the County Town Singers as director after a six-year absence. from the Thursday, September 28, 1961 edition of the wmTByWEEKLy NEWS *William Barnes was presented with a 60)-Year mnembership pin by Composite LodeNo. 309 AF and AM. *Stan Martin will seek a second termi as mayor of Whitby. *Officiais Of McNamara Marine rescued four men adrift in a storm on Ljake Ontario. Whty a tanin h Metro Junior A hockey league for the firthtie. 100 YEARS AGO fromn the Friday, October 2, 1896 edition of the WHIIf3y CHRONICLE * The Daughters of the Church Society bas paid for reshingling the roof of the Brooklin Presbyterian Church t a cost of $80.y *J.W. ]Bengough, popular political oertoonjst who grew up in Whitiby, willi present an evening of songs and sketches at the Music Hall on Oct. 9. *Tod's -bread is sold at Thomas Yates' store at five cents a loaf. * Services at Ail Saints' Anglican Church are being held in the Sunday Schooîle h church ls being painted and renovatecj. hlte a 1