Your post is an example of a problem more complex than I have imagined. So I'm sorry if my ideas had in any way offended you, as your situation is real and my post was nothing but an idea. If there was anything I said that should be corrected, then please feel free to do so. I prefer to learn than to state anything from any obvious ignorance.
I didn’t see anything in your 2 earlier posts that was a problem. In fact, I agree that it’s impossible to solve poverty. I disagree that it’s the result of the Capitalist system.
Poverty is the result of a lack of emotional strength combined with a lack of skills and often a low IQ. There are no political systems on this planet where there is not poverty. In fact, the poor are treated much worse under most other political systems. If you think girls are treated badly here, try being a girl in China, Thailand, Indonesia or the Philippines. Try being poor there. Most of us wouldn’t last 6 months. We have the food banks, missions, emergency health care, (really hungry – get the ambulance to pick you up) and we do provide money for shelter.
When people have been beaten down through their youth with abuse and a lack of love, they either become very strong emotionally (sometimes pathologically unable to have empathy with anyone) or they become entirely without self-esteem.
When you combine the emotionally strong with a low IQ you get Willie Picton.
When you combine the emotionally weak with a low IQ you get most of his victims.
Most of the people in the DTES are emotionally weak with either low IQs (they never had the possibility of working), low skills (they worked in BIC jobs) or sheer bad luck. (WCB, ICBC or life screwed them) What they have in common is they are all poor. Most don’t see $700 a month.
My difficulty with the situation is that we have people with moderate to high IQs who make it their business to remove any money the poor have and facilitate the use of the poor to steal from their fellow citizens.
The scrap metal merchants know that a bronze plaque honouring some figure had to be stolen from a public place, in fact, if they read the plaque they know where it was stolen.
The pawn brokers know that merchandise with the price tag still on it has been stolen and where it was stolen from.
They are too concerned with making an easy dollar to care.
The cure is to spread the poor out all over the Lower Mainland. Provide no focus so that a dealer can pick a street corner with a couple of thousand nearby customers, a pawn broker can locate his store close at hand or a scrap metal merchant can be conveniently nearby.
I come from a culture of organized abuse. That’s what Bountiful BC is. The reason for the Bi Polar/Manic Depressive and some other Genetic Mental problems is the inbreeding and the way the culture beats down and abuses it’s citizens.
The same thing happens on many Indian Reservations and secretly in many families. We also accept as refugees many people that are already broken. Many of these people end up on our various skid-rows because people don’t want them in their back yard. What people want is for them to be centralized so that it’s less expensive to assuage our guilt by providing services at one location. That is the worst thing we can do for these people because it also allows the predators to easily use them.
I was very lucky as were my sisters. All of us are creative and have very high IQs, all of us are skilled at what we do. I was also fortunate that despite my lack of empathy for most people, the US Military ensured that I act properly and inside the rule set they imposed. I could have easily been a Willie Pickton and that’s why I hate the Willie Picktons of this world.
