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PG. 28 THE RURAL VOICE / NOVEMBER 1982
MIMMIKEITH ROULSTON
Poverty line at my heels
Sometimes the most interesting things you read in a newspaper
aren't on the front pages but hidden away in the back. On the
back pages of last month's Rural Voice, for instance, I discovered
that although I thought I was living better than I've ever lived,
the poverty line is nipping at my heels.
In case you don't know it, if you have a family of four and
make less than $13,419 a year, you're poor. And what makes you
poor? Well, according to the people who determine who's poor
and who isn't, if you spent about 60 per cent of your income on
the essentials of life such as food, clothing and shelter, then you
are poor. Now people of the third world might wonder about this
as they go hungry even though they spend everything they can get
their hands on and still go hungry but let's face it, there a lot of
things any self-respecting Canadian is really going to miss if he
hats to live on $13,419 a year (that's, by the way in rural areas. In
large cities it's over $18,000.)
There's a lot of things you'll just have to do without if you're
down there at the $13,419 line. You can't for instance, take a
summer tour in Europe and still expect to have your regular
two -weeks in Florida in the winter.
Let's face it, you won't be able to buy a thirty-foot sail boat
that sleeps six. You won't be able to buy a satellite dish so you
can pull in 90 channels for your colour television set.
You won't be able to keep up your payments on your 4 x 4
without getting behind on payments on either your van, your
motorcycle or your boat.
If you are a farmer, you may actually have to use your pick-up
to carry things in. What's more, you may not be able to afford to
put a CB radio in it.
I'm sorry, but you won't be able to keep a fully -stocked wine
cellar. You may not be able to get a video recorder for your
television.
You can't keep a mistress.
You will not be able to sponsor a climbing expedition on
Mount Everest. You won't be able to play the stock market and
save Dome Petroleum and Massey Ferguson from bankruptcy.
You won't be able to book a seat on the first public shuttle
flight to space. You wouldn't have been able to afford to attend
the gala opening of Thompson Hall, but who wants to listen to
that long -hair music anyway, right?
You probably won't be able to run for parliament. Of course if
you did run and win, you'll be well above the poverty line. On the
other hand, although people complain about politicians making
too much money, they don't like electing ordinary working
people. It makes people nervous to see somebody who needs the
money running for election.
You won't be able to have a son win an olympic medal in figure
skating or your daughter get good enough to join the National
Ballet unless you start embezzling company funds on the side.
You won't be able to get the home computer which no home
can do without. You won't be able to buy a Rolls Royce, even
second hand.
And finally, you won't be able to go into farming. That's only
for people rich enough to have all that money to invest but dumb
enough not to know you can make more money investing it
anywhere else but Massey Ferguson stocks.