"The Povertarians"
We've been caling them "poverty pimps "for years now.
Those righteous enabling fools who pull down six figure salaries and benefits from various levels of government and pretend to be helping the poor, while making damn sure that nothing ever changes.
But in a marvelous and very funny column in the Sun this morning, Miro Cernetig introduces us to a man who on the Board of Directors of the Carnegie Centre but who is not allowed in the Centre because he disagrees with management.
This is the story of the DTES in a nutshell. You must read it to fully understand the waste and autocracy and hypocrisy of the culture that has been built there over the years.
Remember that there is no 4 block jurisdiction on earth with more money or more social programs than the DTES, which continues to be a fetid open sore.
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Then there's that highly paid Judy Graves woman at City Hall who claims to do so much for the homeless. Yet in 1996 when I got all the social service agencies to show up at the SW Marine Drive facility, she did not appear, even though she knew about meeting. She had the unmitigated gall to call up and ask what had happened, so, as rudely as I could muster, I told her "Nothing that would interest you." There are far too many bureaucrats and others sucking off this tit of humanity...
to use one of your expressions.
The blog that Miro Cernetig refers to in his story, without actually naming it, is Downtown Eastside Enquirer. downtowneastsideenquirer.blogspot.com
Cernetig called it “a rather good blog”.
CBC's the Early Edition with guest host Stephen Quinn will interview William Simpson and Rachel Davis just before the 7 AM newscast. The City and Carnegie were invited to speak but there's doubt that anyone agreed to step up. CBC is 690 on the AM dial or get the streaming audio at CBC.ca (http://www.cbc.ca/listen/index.html# - click on Vancouver)
David, any chance you could grab the audiocast and post it for others who are otherwise occupied at that time?
Thanks for the heads-up, but I'm afraid I can't. Perhaps you can get it on CBC's archives.
Please note the change of time for the CBC Early Edition interviews with William and Rachel. They will now be at 7:40 am on Wednesday, Jan 2.
Just finished listening to the interview on CBC with William and Rachel. I managed to record it to an MP3 file. If anyone would like to have it let me know by emailing ehbec@hotmail.com, or if anyone knows where and how to post the audio file on this blog or any other let me know as well.
Listen to the interview on NowPublic.com. Go to "Politics" then look for "Barred Carnegie Director Talks To CBC".
Ethel Whitty's CBC interview is now public on NowPublic. Check it out.
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