'When you see your grandma coming through the door, your great-aunt, that hits home and you realize everybody is affected,' the executive director of the West Island Mission said.
The way some people in this thread are responding to the issue of elder poverty is so nasty. “Well they should have just bought a house when they were younger and since they’re old it’s probably their own fault anyway” is some shit I’d expect to see out of conservatives. There are SO many reasons an elderly person may be living in poverty, and none of them mean they don’t deserve secure housing and food.
That’s not the message I was trying to convey at all.
What I was saying is, the boomer generation, could have built a society where everyone could have had plenty. We had tax rules in place that taxed the rich and the companies and that money could be used for financing a whole safety net and also for big projects that made quality of life better. But instead they enabled conservative and neo liberal parties to completely do the opposite. And now we live in a society where everybody is having a hard time accessing basic needs like food and shelter.
It’s the boomer generation that voted for Mulroney, Reagan, Thatcher, etc. Who brought us trickle down economics.
The way some people in this thread are responding to the issue of elder poverty is so nasty. “Well they should have just bought a house when they were younger and since they’re old it’s probably their own fault anyway” is some shit I’d expect to see out of conservatives. There are SO many reasons an elderly person may be living in poverty, and none of them mean they don’t deserve secure housing and food.
That’s not the message I was trying to convey at all.
What I was saying is, the boomer generation, could have built a society where everyone could have had plenty. We had tax rules in place that taxed the rich and the companies and that money could be used for financing a whole safety net and also for big projects that made quality of life better. But instead they enabled conservative and neo liberal parties to completely do the opposite. And now we live in a society where everybody is having a hard time accessing basic needs like food and shelter.
It’s the boomer generation that voted for Mulroney, Reagan, Thatcher, etc. Who brought us trickle down economics.