@gator_gum Thought I tore my right bicep lifting weights. Had to call on a friend whoโs a doctor to get an ultrasound. He got me in the next day. Guy I worked with at the time had been waiting 4 months for an ultrasound on his knee. I was lucky I knew someone.
Canadaโs healthcare is a joke.
@gator_gum Good one, G. Thatโs about as believable as the Democrat Party claiming that they miraculously switched sides with the Republican Party when it came to slavery and racism.
Coles notes version:
Leftists complaining that leftist cities more than ever suffer from rampant homelessness, crime and drug use but never stop to think about how their political policies have created the problem in the first place.
My wife and I walked through the Downtown Eastside, where she spent years working at the welfare office helping people.
She said, โItโs gotten so much worse. Garbage everywhere, people sleeping on the streets, and drug use on every block.โ
I couldn't disagree. The drugs are worse, homelessness is worse, and people have fewer places to go.
Then she asked, โWhat the hell did ABC do to help people down here?โ
I responded, โThey added more police.โ
However we all know you can't police your way out of poverty, homelessness, and addiction. You have to actually address the conditions causing them.
I'm hopeful that this next mayor and council will make a real difference. At least, I want to be hopeful.
Because the people living in the Downtown Eastside deserve more than promises, policing, and political talking points.
They deserve real solutions, real investment, and a city that hasn't given up on them!
@SankaraDispatch Black people. Black people enslaved your ancestors. White people too, but mostly black. And will you tell them who ended slavery or nah?