TO ALL WHO HAVE NEVER HAD TO WORRY ABOUT MONEY.

To all of you people who have never had to live paycheck to paycheck.

To all of you people who have never had to choose between rent or groceries.

To all of you people who have not had to make $60 worth of groceries last 3 weeks....and actually made it.

To all of you people who have never had to look at prices and compare them to how much rent, or how many groceries, or how much tuition could be paid off with it.

To all of you people who have never had to drop a class you desperately wanted to take because you just couldn't afford it, or even totally re-evaluate exactly how much you could afford for school.

(PS:  In an economic crisis, wouldn't it make more sense to lower tuition rather than raise it, so that that way you get more people into post-secondary education, and therefore more people entering the workforce with marketable skills?)

To anyone who decided that the HST was a good idea, but at the same time, that raising minimum wage was not.

To all of you people who think that the Vancouver 2010 Olympics are going to be great for our country and everyone in it.  Oh, please.  It's a four-day party that we're paying out the ass for, just to show off, and it's not going to benefit us.  I never wanted the Olympics in Vancouver.  For one thing, think of all the money that could have been saved on the part of the government- and on the part of we taxpayers- if they'd just used the infrastructure in Calgary.

Oooh, a nerve.

We have the full, proper infrastructure in Calgary, once-used, that we aren't using again for these Olympics because "people won't want to see the same place twice".  If people are going to see the OLYMPICS, I don't think they really care too much about where it's held.  We could have saved ourselves billions of dollars, but no.  We spend more even  though we're still in debt.  Pleasant.

So, go to hell.  And stay there.

Get your hands out of your pockets and consider the well-being of those of us who literally struggle to live- at the price of YOUR bragging rights!

Whose bright idea was it to introduce a new tax- in the middle of a recession?  I work in food service, and it doesn't look like I or many of the people I work with will be getting any nice raises.  No, our wages will probably stay the same.  Thanks a lot.  My job isn't very glamorous- I work at Tim Horton's.  But it pays the bills, and not much else.

I'm luckier than most because I'm not starving.  I'm not on the streets.  Yet.  You cannot believe the hours I have racked my brains trying to think of ways to save myself that extra dollar.

But keep this up, and I might be.

Have fun with that on your consciences.