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Survival of the Fittest of Alberta(Nov 10 2006)

Should my city have been treated like a hotel? should someone have checked for the vacancy or no vacancy before we let a bunch of rich people move in to jack up our rental rates before Christmas and send five thousand people homeless? Should we have said sorry but no vacancy? we have jobs...and we'll start from the ground up you wanna live here then start working in the construction field to help with housing then go for the big time of oil? because obviously we didn't just opened the doors thousands of rich and poor and desperate flooded in in the summer too stupid to realise the curse of the winter no one saw coming boomed all summer then all the sudden the oil industry came crashing down blind leading the blind or should i say greed leading the blind? and desperate and poor and those who once had a home... so the rich from other countries who wanted things like healthcare now live in our nice homes and those who worked in the oil industry are looking for other jobs or welfare and its winter beautiful silent frost and icicles of blue line everything and silence of dissent of puffs of cold air are seen but not heard Should this city have been like a hotel? Should they have come to check in first? see if we have residency? and then maybe get a job building more homes for the winter like an ant, or any other animal does in the winter? NO! We all went for the money Greed greed greed now there is a shortage of homes oil industry slowed down huge major crisis 5000 in one small city wandering -20 below weather homeless because we let too many people into our backyard.... Were they refugees? Were they business owners? all the homeless people i see and know are Caucasian some victoms of drug abuse and meanwhile the people from around the world live like kings driving nice cars living in the nice houses about to experience a beautiful Christmas with 3000 frozen corpses sprinkling the ground What do i have to say to the mayor? What do we have for a bride here? who is the lawyer when things turn out? what asylum understands a twelve paged poem that drove me crazy i'm waiting for word of mouth inspire them to read? Thank you world for an army of homelessness in my own backyard of 5000 people thank you for the mentally ill i know soo well in political metaphors i'm about to lead Thank you for the 700 people in jail cells praising me for my method of madness

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