I've Finally Got it!

Why do people litter?

The amount of litter on the street is a direct indication of the level of hopefulness in the general population. I have reached this conclusion once I came to understand who is doing the littering and the increase in the litter in Vancouver's West End over the last three to four years.

Mayencourt's Safe Streets Act and his personal quest to ameliorate bullying in the province's schools have been feeble attempts at making it look like he has been working hard! However, I believe, Katrina's truth shows here in Canada as well. The latest edition of X-tra West reports Gay men are now an underserved population compared to the Intravenous Drug Users; and funding for the Canadian HIV/AIDS Strategy on both the federal and provincial levels have not increased since the 1990s. But both gay men and HIV funding are great themes for political promises and the posturing of politicians, but like Katrina's revelation the amount of gargbage on the streets and the increase in panhandlers and drug dealer's in the West End of Vancouver are showing us how well our politicians are serving us.

They're not serving us.

Carole Taylor's show off of her 15 year old red shoes which she had resouled for her budget is enough to make one vomit. What a show of poor taste and lack of social awarness. Ms.Taylor is the kind of woman Samson's Mother warned him about! In my estimation both the BC Liberals and the Provincial New Democrats have a great deal of work to do, if they intend to prove they have the ability and/or the poltitical will to make substantive meaningful policies and programs. All Canadian political parties should realize by now, that the Canadian cultural ethos does not support a 100% approval of a laissez-faire political approach to corporations and other forms of big business. The policies of George W. Bush are not favoured on the Canadian scene. So our politicians should get over themselves and start thinking about what they can do for the people of Canada and British Columbia. ( Alberta is a special consideration!)

And so, I hope I don't find myself buried in garbage and litter this time next year as the level of hopelessness in the citizenry increases, but quite frankly I have little hope of any change.

Be well. be active and be activist....

the faerieshaman