This may be a common plight across Canada. 9 small agencies in London that have been promised and have been waiting for many months for funding for homeless people and youth projects such as homeless youth with aids are no longer sustainable. I agency that was taking care of over 500 homeless in the downtown has quit and closed it's doors for lack of money, others have laid off staff and are almost done as well.
The only politician concerned, a local NDP MP Irene Matheysson has been hounding Diane Finlay, the federal minister for social development. The money month after month is suppose to be ' in the pipeline' but they must realize groups can't survive that long without support. Matheysson wonders if Ottawa is hoping to prove these agencies aren't needed by their closings?
I can't imagine the job of being an outreach worker in such a sad challenge, but to get screwed by a government that can give away 1 billion to the U.S. for a bad lumber deal or cut a billion from services while having surpluses?
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4 comments:
It's the old conservative "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" philosophy -- pretty callous. They should all have to live as a homeless person for a month to see how "easy" it is to pull yourself up.
We're only talking $600.000 for 9 agencies to do cheaply what no one else would want to do.
If these homeless people didn't mind, I'd like to bus a few hundred and drop them off at Finleys house. If you can't send us the bucks to take care of them, then you can have them on your doorstep.
But Q,
If the small local non-profits do it well and do it cheaply how are the CorpCo's gonna make big bucks off it?
That is what this is really about jj. It's not bootstraps for the poor; it's Corporate Welfare for the unaccountable.
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just more genocide to help create the 'new aryan race' of north american, white, upper middle class'. oh, it helps to be good looking and have brains to.....otherwise you're on the bottom of the heap.
yippee, cant wait for eugenics to be re-instated!
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