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Originally Posted by rubecube
Oh, well, if the government had a deficit for the last couple of years, that totally makes up for 16 years of cuts under the Campbell and Clark governments.
The BC NDP also posted three straight years of balanced budgets before COVID hit.
What a deeply unserious post.
Spoken like someone who has been fortunate enough to not suffer from serious mental health issues and/or homelessness and lacks the empathy to comprehend how debilitating those things can be.
How exactly do you expect people to seek help when mental health and substance use treatment services have been slashed to the bone?
They just need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, amirite?
This is such a massive strawman. No one is saying the opioid crisis is because corporate taxes are too low. We're saying that the services required to pull people out of homelessness and addictions are too sparse after years of cuts.
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first of all, you don't know me or the people I love.
Second, I think that you're misrepresenting my position. I agree, homelessness and mental health are serious issues that are largely out of individuals control, further still, someone can work their entire life and never escape that.
That said, what is under peoples control is doing hard drugs. (**with obvious exceptions**) No one is holding people down and giving them fent and meth.(**with obvious exceptions**) Also, no one is naive enough to think that they can do those drugs and not give themselves a life sentence. Can we help these people? sure, but do we need to restructure the everyday life of people to accommodate them?
I simply don't subscribe to doomsday thinking. We provide upstream care through access to world class education, and down stream care through emergency services. Could these things be improved? of course, and for the most part people are working really hard to fix them (i've met dozens of people who do). It's not like we are leaving people totally flapping in the wind.
So what i said, is there is a limit to how much we can do for these people, where that limit is is not for me to decide, but it is important to consider that many opiate addicts can never be saved. it sucks, but that's just life, in other words unfair.