God, i couldn't resist myself on this one. the bullshit hoopla of the olympics, which keeps getting more and more expensive.....homeless rates up 373% since 2006, child poverty in BC is 1 in 5 kids living/raised in poverty, though, the number is probably higher...and so on.
i grew up poor. i mean, i grew up with a single aboriginal mother, who was 16 when she had me. sometimes, i feel like a veteran of some nameless, endless war.....lean forward and whisper into your ear.....'I've seen shit man....shit you wouldn't believe!!!"
i live in a town that until somewhat recently, has been a brutally racist place to live. indians used to get jumped and beaten, myself included, for nothing other than being in the wrong place, at the wrong time. now the racism is subtle. a little bit more anyway.
first nations people hold all the records in canada, highest dropout rates, highest rates of children up for adoption, highest suicide rates, highest HIV/AIDs rates, highest prison population male and female, most likely to die violent death, highest spousal abuse rates, etc, etc.....you get the picture.
in a land, where supposedly, we get free houses, free education, and so on.
right.
we need leaders. we don't need chiefs acting as 'politicians.'
obviously, their way of doing 'business' just ain't working.
'cause nothing has improved or changed thanks to them.
things just keep sliding.
it's enough to make a person say, "GFY!"
when you are told about the land of opportunity and the rest of that horseshit.
