Emergency

Two Montréal city counselors want to make the homeless problem an emergency. I agree with them because like all large North American cities this has become an epidemic. It's easy to say that all these people don't want to work and wash our hands of it, but the reality is that the sheer number is a sign of the times. 

Not only am I asked for change very frequently but there are people wandering the streets incoherently talking to themselves in numbers that are at a peak for my lifespan thus far. We have hit a point where the errors of our ways have come back to haunt us. 

Globalization certainly didn't help and since we were too clever by half, we decided that everyone would benefit by having the richer nations rape the planet with equal opportunity as strategy. Business owners lined their pockets and those of their shareholders by manufacturing abroad leaving the rest of society  to fend for themselves. In America the sins were particularly severe since the safety net barely exists. 

Now those same serfs have voted for a party that wants to strip even more "entitlements" away while singing the praises of a trickle down economic theory that was dispelled a charlatanism decades ago. 

Some people forgot to warn us that many people are greedy and we will yet again get a reminder.