Yesterday, while partaking in an urban hike, I had cause and curiosity to stop back in at the United Church/Turning Point area along Brunswick Street. This is an area I had not previously visited in some two to three years. I was shocked to see the changes and wondered if there is a new and especially pernicious drug on the streets? In terms of neglect, disinterest and aggressive non-involvement from the professional levels, I cannot remember seeing such a collective absence of effective compassion in this city (with the possible but notable exception of the professional malaise which seems to also affect those VG wards dedicated to the welfare of chronic care patients).
There are people down there, folks. Salvageable people. It’s time that our city did something about them besides just warehousing them into ghettoes and then forgetting about them. Fuck off, Halifax, you can do better than this! —Sorrow and Grief
This article appears in Jul 28 – Aug 3, 2011.
OK, I get the righteous indignation part (aka – bullshit), but wtf does ” aggressive non-involvement from the professional levels” mean?
Salvageable people = Organs and other sundry parts?
If a neighbourhood doesn’t give a fuck about the way it appears, why should I? Why is it up to me to fix up someone elses back yard, I have my own to take care of thank you very much.
OB – why wait for the City to clean it up, lead by example, do it yourself.
We need to ship those shitbags over to Shannon park and warehouse the fuckers until they kill each other off, every death is a dollar saved on welfare.
You mean our costly welfare state hasn’t saved everyone from themselves yet? What a shame…
Why don’t you take in some of these salvageable people, OP, that you forgot about for 2-3 years?
There’s only so much help to go around, after that they need to help themselves or they’re doomed to that cycle forever.
NO thanks. Spare some change. Go fuck yourself. Ship those lazy bums off on the next iceberg from Newfoundland. The majority of people work, make money, and support themselves. Those bums you so care about are just leechs on society.