Start with the Senators

Hand on my heart, I have never stolen anything in my life.  I'm the sort of person who tells the store clerk if she's made a mistake and under-charged me, because I know that at the end of the day, she's the one who gets called on the carpet for any mistakes on the register.  I deeply resent being called a thief and being treated like one.  Increased security checks, such as credit checks of employees when they haven't earned them,  are insulting.

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Canadians are faced with a barrage of headlines at the moment about Senators under investigation for theft.  They are guaranteed a fixed income for life, yet that did not stop them from stealing.  Doing credit checks on regular working people will not solve anything.  Many of these people are divorced and paying for two families.  They are often forced to do overtime.  Some work a second job on their days off.   This may come as a shock to a rarified people who are surrounded by security staff in Ottawa, but it's a fact of life for most people today.  It's embarrassing to live  from pay check to pay check and to not be able to buy your kids the stuff they wanted.  While I don't have any of my own, I hear people talk.  

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How much will it cost to do this credit check?  Did anybody hear about the recent Chinese hack on the United States Government workers?  It's a fallacy that people do untoward things because of bad credit.  Some people do it because they watched one too many James Bond movies.  Over the years, I've seen many do it because they get involved romantically with somebody.  The current situation in New York State is a prime example of this.  Gang involvement is another motivation as is terrorism.  But paying off off a bad line of credit usually isn't  what drives a person.

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And so it starts, the invasion of privacy with the anti terrorism bill.....