Editor:
Re: “On the brink,” March 18
Producing cheap or free adequate housing for the homeless is indeed better than naught; however, it is still not enough.
Those who are homeless and/or impoverished have a sometimes-great nemesis in mainstream society, its political officials and in many prominent news-media figures, whom generally are fiscal conservatives and social – e.g. abortion and homosexual rights – liberals. Such ideology is replacing the polarized left- and right-wing camps of the past – all of which translate into ‘welfare’ and ‘social services’ becoming dirty words.
B.C.’s current government seems to be the antithesis of a friend to the very poor, allowing cuts to the social safety net during hard times, because it knows that society is, at best, apathetic towards any form of ‘welfare bum.’
In its fundamentalist form, this ideology basically translates into the survival of the richest and the fully employed.
Frank G. Sterle, Jr., White Rock