Class War
We allowed rich to win class war
Jun 01, 2007 04:30 AM
Linda McQuaig
The Toronto Star
Probably the most overlooked story of the past two decades is the fact that there was a class war and the rich won.
By getting governments to cut taxes and slash social benefits, our financial elite has greatly enriched itself and worsened the fate of the poor. Inequality has reached a level not seen in this country for about a century, as Osgoode Hall tax professor Neil Brooks has noted.
The swollen ranks of homeless people – a throwback to the early days of capitalism before protest movements won social benefits – are a sharp reminder that this class war has many victims, including the weakest and most vulnerable.
It's hard to square the ugly reality of people living on our streets with any sort of good feeling about where our society is headed. Hence, the need to remove this ugliness from view.
This appears to be the underlying motivation behind Toronto's "Streets to Homes" program, which is modelled on the Bush administration's program to end homelessness in U.S. cities.
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1 comments:
The is a basic pile of blatant generalizations with no real analysis, math or examples to back it up that can be debated and analyzed. I am disappointed that you would reprint such drivel on your site. I was expecting more than this kind of rehash. This is great for polarizing and whipping up the masses but does not help actually solve anything.
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