Just came back from a meeting at a Victoria homeless night shelter. Our city's business association reneged on the $60k they said they'd pay for heating etc; now they're paying zip. Yeah, those business owners, like you and me, have warm beds to go to tonight.
Meanwhile, just got an email: Victoria's Native Friendship Centre has finally run out of food.
Our perfect little town, a third of a million people, has over 500 people sleeping in the subzero snow tonight. What the hell is going on?
Why do business owners and governments say they'll help, but when push comes to shove, offer nothing? B.C.'s Liberals may be worse than the NDP. Do both parties really think that homeless people don't matter because they don't bring in votes?
Why have you, I and our governments allowed the rich to get so much richer? Why don't we and our governments get it that each of us -- ever so easily, just a bit of bad luck -- could end up on the street?
The poor are poor because the rich are rich.
2007-01-14
17:46:12
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