Short sighted

I am getting increasingly concerned about the state of the disenfranchised. In my comings and goings I see so many who need help and are living on razor thin margins. We in the West are clearly living through a period of decline and even a social democracy like Canada is not being spared the consequences of Neoliberal policies begun in the early 1990's.

We can certainly trace social upheaval to the idea that global markets would naturally adjust to our social ills which turned out to be a phenomenal gamble of exceptional hubris. We farmed out blue collar industries to third world countries and let them join the muscular class (think China and India here) with the fallout being catastrophic.

We are the poorer for it of course because now a signicant segment of the population is living on meager wages, struggling to survive and increasingly becoming a burden of the state.

Human short sightedness strikes again.