Sunday, March 20, 2005

MOTHER KNOWS BEST?

The poor people of Vancouver who are trying to eek out a life on the streets thanks to vicious cuts in welfare payments and professional hounds who drive the ‘cheaters’ off the rolls are growing, apparently in embarrassing numbers. And they have been getting their share of attention lately in the common media.

One columnist went so far as to interview a panhandler afflicted with schizophrenia and then the next week the mother of the poor soul (who works two blocks away from where her son panhandles and didn’t know it), who advised one and all not to give them money because it goes to drugs. One can imagine the resounding roar of thanks from all the non-druggie destitute people walking the cruel sidewalks that day.

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