Check Out these Red Hot Chili Politcs!! #ChristyDontCare

Red Hot Chili Politics from Thomas Warden on Vimeo.
I was inspired to write a #BCpoli parody of the classic song 'Under the Bridge' by RHCP hoping for it to go viral, raise awareness, and increase voter turnout.

[Verse 1]
Sometimes I feel like I don't have a premier
Sometimes I feel hate for my goverment
In the province I live in, province of hells angels
Funny thing is that, they care more than her

Food drives on her streets cause we can't afford groceries
Got piles of bills cause she's raised all the rates
Site C subsidys and she flooded the valley
We should be worried, food security

[Chorus]
Do you think I should have to hear, my mothers care will pay
Unable to be right there, living paycheck to pay
I don't ever wanna feel, my government don't care
It's too little and it's too late, empty promises on voting day yeah, yeah, yeah
[Verse 2]
It's hard to believe, that there's​ still support there
It's hard to believe, her speech from the throne
At the least she should be gone, under investigations
Illegal donations, crim'nal activity

[Chorus]
Do you think I should have to hear, my mothers care will pay
Unable to be right there, living paycheck to pay
I don't ever wanna feel, my government don't care
It's too little and it's too late, empty promises on voting day yeah, yeah, yeah

Oh, no, no, no, yeah yeah
Love me, I say, yeah yeah

One time

[Verse 3]
Under the bridge downtown, the oil tankers went
Under the bridge downtown, they're filled with bitumin

Under the bridge downtown, I hope they do not spill
Under the bridge downtown, resident orcas killed

#ChristyDontCare
#John2017

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Poverty in BC- Where is Social Justice?

 We are not on assistance but we are struggling. Groceries are so expensive, the rent is ridiculous and bus tickets, school supplies and all those things make survival today very difficult and stressful on child and parents.

 http://thetyee.ca/News/2015/11/06/Welfare-Food-Challenge/?utm_source=weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=091115

You know I was really surprised. I didn't know who the Minister for Social Development was...and just looked it up and I am shocked frankly. I thought that being a woman and having challenges she would be more empathetic. So sad...it feels so hopeless.  

I guess what I am asking...has your fridge ever been empty? do you know what it is like to only have $20, because after the bills that's all that's left and it has to last 20 days...but you know you can do it, hope you can do it, with the few groceries in your cupboard, you now you have to keep $6 for milk and if you can get bread and eggs...you can live on French toast and maybe you can bananas if you are lucky. 

Have you ever had this challenge, Michelle Stilwell or Justin Trudeau?


"Asked if $21 a week is enough for food, the minister for social development Michelle Stilwell said, "I think certainly the comprehensive support system we have in place for individuals on income assistance and persons with disabilities helps support them in a multitude of ways."

So, does that mean Stilwell thinks $21 a week is plenty for food? "It's more important to ensure we are providing services and supports for individuals on income assistance that will help them have their best foot forward, to ensure they have an opportunity to find employment to make a better life for both their families and their children," she said."

Stilwell responded to a question about the drop by saying, "When we have an opportunity to look at increasing the rates, we will look at that at a time that's fiscally possible."

"B.C. has some of the worst poverty in Canada," he said, adding that one out of five children live in poverty in B.C., the only province in Canada without a poverty reduction plan.(Raise the Rates organizer Bill Hopwood )

It has been 8.5 years since welfare and disability rates were increased. MLAs have received raises during that time, Hopwood noted.

http://www.policynote.ca/its-time-to-seriously-tackle-child-poverty/

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 The welfare rates are the same, the wages are the same, the housing costs have skyrocketed, grocery prices are ridiculous....Justin, please help us. 

People are trying, I know they are, I'm trying but the rich just turn their back to us and blame us. 

The poor are to embarrassed and humiliated to ask for help?  We are trying to keep our dignity.

But I am asking....

Who will help? Will you?


A Bird's Eye View of Child Poverty in BC from Selin Jessa on Vimeo.

We do have rights!! But who will fight for us? How can you fight for yourself, when you are exhausted and it's so much bigger than us.

Article 25: Right to an adequate standard of living

http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2015/11/article-25-right-to-adequate-standard.html

Things that make you go hmmm? #1

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If you had a gift of reading people's minds, where would you work?
 
There is this woman that works at Safeway, she has these intense questioning ice blue eyes and  and everytime I see her I feel she is reaching in ...

that she can see right into my soul and I feel myself pull back and say "No" - as she asks- "How are you?" or "Do you want your milk in a bag?"

Even Angel noticed- So it made me wonder about - why a person with such a gift would work at Safeway.

The thoughts would be interesting- random- maybe sort of like headlines... where you would just read them but not have to act on them.

What if you worked somewhere high security or high finance you may feel you would be responsible if you didn't act on the "secret thoughts you may hear"

In Safeway it would be like "I'm so hungry, I can't wait to cook this steak!" or "Man, the price of cereal has gone up" or "Gee, I hope I have enough to pay, I have that extra $5 I put away..."

That's why I think she reads, hears, feels, senses and acts as she does.  

It may not be a special gift- maybe she's just ultra sensitive and has just  fine-tuned her skill, after hearing that thought over and over, in the minds of single moms, in the province of British Columbia, as they approach her till attempting to pay for the  groceries to feed her kid.

Maybe she has ...what's that word...OH YA!! Empathy...something our city/province/government/community lacks...or how else is it explained?? Who knows maybe she's a single mom too!


Makes you go hmmmmmmmm ??? doesn't it!

On a Note of Gratitude, I just completed my program at Emily Carr in Interaction Design Essentials and hope to be designing and developing website and apps for clients shortly. 

In the mean time, I've been blessed with a "sweet-scented"  gig working in retail at the "delicious" Granville Island Soap Gallery and so things are looking up and coming together but it took a ton of hard work and it shouldn't be this way. 

We live in this great country, this great province, in a great city, my mom was born in Vancouver, and I was born near by...I have a right to live here..
 
For our children's sake and for a healthy next generation things have got to change and quickly... before so much more damage is done to our beautiful youth.


Related Stories: BC  Highest Child Poverty Rate

http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/b-c-has-highest-child-poverty-rate-in-canada-report-1.711473

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/british-columbia-has-canadas-highest-child-poverty-rate-report-says/article15609754/

http://www.campaign2000.ca/ 

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/promise-eliminate-child-poverty-canada-ringing-increasingly-hollow-212758485.html