...that "social in-activists" goal, for their own well being, is to turn poverty into a cottage industry but in Vancouver they seem to have turned it into a "corporate" industry!
Vancouver's Unfolding "Povertygate"
The recent revelations
of the luxurious spending of the Portland Hotel Society appear to be
just the opening chapter in a long tale of corruption and greed. The
National Post's Brian Hutchinson had much to say this morning:
Among the astonishments in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, its heavily subsidized misery and decay, are the politicians. They rule in perpetuity while producing, well, what? Mr. Small was a handsomely compensated and increasingly well-travelled executive with the PHS Community Services Society (PHS), the biggest, most aggressive social services provider in the neighbourhood, a $28-million-a-year giant funded almost entirely by tax dollars, most from provincial coffers, with millions more in federal funding topping things off.
A smile, she has said, "is worth a thousand bucks." But a toot across Europe costs a lot more, as she has just discovered. In her case, $34,992.27, at least.
Continue reading Vancouver's Unfolding "Povertygate".
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