Friday, December 13, 2024

What is up with four o'clock? This is the third morning in a row I have woken up at 4. But once I am awake I can't get back to sleep so I got up. It's cold. My apartment heat is working but just,... I think it is only working halfway. The thermastat won't climb higher than 21 degrees. But I know from living here for 8 years now, that when it gets to minus 10 or below my apartment feels cold. I have windows that take up that whole outside wall. This is normally a great thing as it gives me so much light. So important for someone who suffers from depression. But when it gets cold the wind seems to howl through them. I have blinds and curtains which help. I had a little portable heater but it died yesterday. (Why do things break when you need them the most?) I have put in a call to housing but that was Wednesday. Hopefully I'll hear from them today. But I do still have heat. And living in Canada where the temperatures can drop really low, I am just grateful to have a home, heat and running water. I will always be grateful for that. It's just that in weather like we are having today in Canada,... you just appreciate it all the more.

But I am troubled for the homeless. Doug Ford ~ the man I love to hate ~ The Premier of Ontario ~ has done it again. Proven that he has no regard for the disabled and poor. He is passing some legislation to dismantle all the homeless encampments. The irony of this would be humurous if it weren't going to be fatal for some people. Doug Ford is the one who won't pay these people enough to keep a roof over their heads. So a lot end up homeless. BECAUSE of him. And now he wants to not SEE them. So he wants to get rid of them.

Doug!!!! These are human beings. They cannot just make themselves invisable just because you don't want to see the PROBLEM YOU CREATED. You want to see them off the streets? Pay ODSP and OW recipients a realistic wage!!!! You can't live off of $1368!!!! THATS why they are all HOMELESS!

It infuriates me expecially now that we are learning about so much corruption and money mishandling from his office. WHY are people homeless in the first place? Because ODSP and OW does not pay enough. There isn't enough in that monthly wage for rent. 

So Doug Ford instead of finally SEEING the poor down here,... is now brushing them all under the carpet. Poor and homeless are dirty and we need to hide them. In his mind they are not his problem and need to disappear. 

And people like myself would rather just end our lives than live his poverty. Doug Ford wouldn't last 24 hours homeless. He is far too priviledged. And maybe thats the problem. He has no empathy for anyone unless they can scratch his back while he helps them. It is already coming out in this RCMP investigation that he is underhanded and loose with the rules and has definitely greased the pockets of his rich friends. I guess in the coming months we will finally see how and just how much. And what the fianl bill will add up to. But as someone who lives in his poverty its infuriating that he helps the rich and brushes the homeless under the carpet leaving them to fend for themselves. 

The poor and homeless are DIRTY to this government. But maybe they should sit up and look in the mirror because THEY are the ones who put most of these people in this poverty. I struggle and have no life at all so some of Doug Fords friends can go on a few more vacations every year. Hes as tight as a tick when it comes to releasing funds to people on ODSP and OW. And in the end he just throws us peanuts. It's not a livable wage at all. But he thinks because he gave us a 5% raise we are now living in luxury. That 5% increase didn't even cover the rise in our rent. But,... he is so willing to open the purse strings for his buddies. The rich. His friends. With OUR MONEY. The hard working people of Ontario and Canada. I think he thinks all the money in the budgets are HIS money and he can do with it as he pleases. Lord of the manor! It does leave a sour taste in your mouth for the Country you once loved and were so proud to have been born and raised in. 

This present government - Trudeau and Ford - are systematically destroying our Country. And we at the bottom are feeling it the most.

***sigh*** Life is heavy for people down here. I'm just so tired. I just dont want to struggle anymore. 

And if there is one thing I have learned over the past five or six years, it's,...

Once you are in the system ~ You will never get out of it


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