Pissing Your Money Down a Dark Hole
Pete McMartin has a terribly funny column in The Sun today.
I say, "terribly funny," because it is funny and dreadful in its heart-breaking accuracy.
Another Downtown East Side social service agency has been awarded more of your money to do less than nothing. In this case, $80,000 has been given to a group who have created a website for hookers and johns.
You can't write this kind of dark comedy. Only mandarins can come up with this kind of idiocy all on their own.
Of course, not one single hooker or john will ever see this website. Of course, the website you are now reading cost absolutely nothing (and is worth every penny, I might add!) and there were no committee meetings to get it going.
The Vancouver Agreement, the Vancouver Foundation and Vancity have all mistakenly contributed.
Madness, sheer madness. Lunacy. A living side show.
3 comments:
I knew you couldn't resist talking about McMartin's editorial. I was a little slower to the punch but referred people to yours as well: http://pelalusa.blogspot.com/2007/04/new-milleniums-key-buzzword-bullshit.html
This social service agency, told Pete McMartin that it had some 25 "dialogue sessions" with community members.
I hate the lie in this message.
I'm involved with one of 25 groups who accepted an invitation to meet with them. This in no way means we approved of the work or the message this organization is presenting.
However by saying they met with 25 community member organizations they present a message of acceptance that is a down right lie!
Everything related to this subject is a lie. Vancouver's drug czar, Donald MacPherson, was on CKNW the other day. Apparently he was being given some award by some foundation or other. One caller phoned up and said that the only award MacPherson deserves is from the drug dealers for keeping their coffers well stacked.
MacPherson then went on to the usual talking points about how providing a safe place to inject one's self is better than on the street and how drug rehab services are made available to the drug addicts.
What he never talks about is what percentage of drug addicts using these government facilities actually go through the available programs and get clean. Why? Because the numbers, of course, are dreadfully low. Any reasonably intelligent person, learning of their abysmal success rate would quickly turn against them.
If ever there was a prime example of academics so completely wrong on something, this has got to be prime example #1!!!
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