Going to paint UCP and a lot of their supporters with a broad brush here, so let me acknowledge that, but I think one of the underlying reasons for their disdain for low-income Albertans comes from a belief that if you are poor you are a) lazy b) unqualified/uneducated (nice way of saying dumb), c) not righteous, or d) all of the above.
Just my personal experience recently: I've run into more of a certain type of religious people who believe that the only way you can have this temporal success is by being super pious, and those folks who are struggling financially are, in effect, less righteous.
With the TBA idiots and their home-schooled zealot leadership, I wouldn't be surprised if that was an underlying part of their cruelty: "we aren't punishing the poor because they are poor, but because they haven't been blessed enough."
Thanked your post as this is also how I feel. The mix between religion and politics is so gross.
How much do other provinces fund low income transit passes for their respective major cities as a comparison? (BC, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec)
Other non-Alberta Canadian cities either only have a modest discount or limit them to just low-income seniors/disabled. As of 2019:
Calgary has the most generous discount and most universal since it's based on income and household size (about 2/3rd of program users qualified for the cheapest pass), so it's a costly program that nobody else has and Alberta never agreed to fund permanently.
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Going to paint UCP and a lot of their supporters with a broad brush here, so let me acknowledge that, but I think one of the underlying reasons for their disdain for low-income Albertans comes from a belief that if you are poor you are a) lazy b) unqualified/uneducated (nice way of saying dumb), c) not righteous, or d) all of the above.
Just my personal experience recently: I've run into more of a certain type of religious people who believe that the only way you can have this temporal success is by being super pious, and those folks who are struggling financially are, in effect, less righteous.
With the TBA idiots and their home-schooled zealot leadership, I wouldn't be surprised if that was an underlying part of their cruelty: "we aren't punishing the poor because they are poor, but because they haven't been blessed enough."
You just described prosperity gospel. The wealthy are God's favorite hence the money, but also there for the poor are being punished by God and you don't want to defy the lords will.
You just described prosperity gospel. The wealthy are God's favorite hence the money, but also there for the poor are being punished by God and you don't want to defy the lords will.
Ah, just as Jesus preached. #### the poor.
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Other non-Alberta Canadian cities either only have a modest discount or limit them to just low-income seniors/disabled. As of 2019:
Calgary has the most generous discount and most universal since it's based on income and household size (about 2/3rd of program users qualified for the cheapest pass), so it's a costly program that nobody else has and Alberta never agreed to fund permanently.
Strange because it's in the Mandate Letter - Ensuring adequate funding is provided to partners to ensure low-income Albertans can access municipal transit at lower prices.
Other non-Alberta Canadian cities either only have a modest discount or limit them to just low-income seniors/disabled. As of 2019:
Calgary has the most generous discount and most universal since it's based on income and household size (about 2/3rd of program users qualified for the cheapest pass), so it's a costly program that nobody else has and Alberta never agreed to fund permanently.
Toronto now has a (modest) discount program, as does Saskatoon.
And I remember a time in this city and province when 'We aren't the worst' wasn't the bar to jump over to be happy about a policy or support when 'we are the best' was actually an ideal.
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You just described prosperity gospel. The wealthy are God's favorite hence the money, but also there for the poor are being punished by God and you don't want to defy the lords will.
Which is funny because according to the bible, God loves everyone equally... so why is he (suspiciously) playing favourites? Things that make you go hmmmm.
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Which is funny because according to the bible, God loves everyone equally... so why is he (suspiciously) playing favourites? Things that make you go hmmmm.
Religions behaving hypocritically makes you go hmmm? Are you new here?
All credit goes to Albertans for this reversal. Absolutely none to the UCP. And no, the Dinger did not foment this reversal.
Maybe I’m becoming too much of a softy but I have a hard time not giving them credit for pulling their heads out of their asses even if it was only stuck there in the first place because they went looking for a solution to a problem no one was asking them to fix.
Going to paint UCP and a lot of their supporters with a broad brush here, so let me acknowledge that, but I think one of the underlying reasons for their disdain for low-income Albertans comes from a belief that if you are poor you are a) lazy b) unqualified/uneducated (nice way of saying dumb), c) not righteous, or d) all of the above.
Just my personal experience recently: I've run into more of a certain type of religious people who believe that the only way you can have this temporal success is by being super pious, and those folks who are struggling financially are, in effect, less righteous.
With the TBA idiots and their home-schooled zealot leadership, I wouldn't be surprised if that was an underlying part of their cruelty: "we aren't punishing the poor because they are poor, but because they haven't been blessed enough."
Which is just so antithetical to the teachings of, you know, Jesus.
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Which is funny because according to the bible, God loves everyone equally... so why is he (suspiciously) playing favourites? Things that make you go hmmmm.
God actually doesnt love everyone equally. He despises the rich.
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"How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God! Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."
— Matthew 19:23–27, NRS
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And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in; it chokes the Word, which becomes unfruitful
— Mark 4:19, NRSV[
This has been largely ignored by most, and for the most part lessened by the belief that god doesn't hate the rich so long as they use their wealth "righteously"
