Diary Notes- Jan 2009

The months have now definitely turned into years (1.5 to be precise). And the circle goes round and round and round. Oh, right, it’s a circle, it’s supposed to go round!

Well, some retail jobs and a few other temp jobs later, the question of ‘finding my feet’ still hangs in the balance. I would happily get into school which I am told is the best way to enter into the ‘mainstream’ (whatever stream that is, only these Torontonians know!) but that brings one back to the question of funds. Does one run a family or spend on education. ‘Take OSAP, take OSAP!’ screams every man Jack (and Jane) – and then happily spend the rest of your life in blissful debt! Really, cant understand these guys. The clamour to get loans and then spend them on fun and frolic in between some studies and THEN curse the Canadian government the rest of their lives for putting them in so much debt. Do they have warts on their brains or what. Loan, you know, it is spelt L.O.A.N. (Lending of assistance now – is the way I code that acronym!!) and which obviously concludes PAY LATER!!

So now (on a totally conjectured statistics) – I would say that 99.9 percent of Canadian citizens over 18 are in debt. Student loans, credit card debts, mortgages, car financing, store credits…you name it – they’ve run it up.

And guess what, all the time the Canadian government is to blame. I wonder which official comes to them regularly to go buy that home theatre or the shiny new SUV standing in the garage of their mortgaged home.