{"id":871,"date":"2006-03-28T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=871"},"modified":"2006-03-28T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T02:45:00","slug":"woe-is-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=871","title":{"rendered":"Woe Is Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Ibbitson has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/Page\/document\/v4\/sub\/MarketingPage?user_URL=http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com%2Fservlet%2Fstory%2FRTGAM.20060328.wxibbitson28%2FBNStory%2FNational%2Fhome&#038;ord=1143596764570&amp;brand=theglobeandmail&amp;force_login=true\">column <\/a>today which shows just how disconnected from reality Garth Turner truly is. Consider the following:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">For Mr. Turner, however, the little guy is the bleeding upper middle class.<\/p>\n<p>Halton, on the edge of Greater Toronto, is full of them: Mr. Turner chronicled their plight in his speech.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled talking to a man whose house &#8220;was worth maybe half a million &#8211; modest for his neighbourhood. He told me it felt like his life was being squeezed now from all sides. Property taxes, income taxes, GST&#8230;&#8217;All I&#8217;ve got is this&#8217; He kicked the bricks at his front door.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then there was the woman who decided to stay at home and raise her kids. Her husband makes six figures, but &#8220;our friends who have two incomes make a lot less, and always have more money to throw around. The system is killing my family.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Glad to see someone is fighting for this severely disadvantaged demographic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Ibbitson has a column today which shows just how disconnected from reality Garth Turner truly is. Consider the following: For Mr. Turner, however, the little guy is the bleeding upper middle class. Halton, on the edge of Greater Toronto, is full of them: Mr. Turner chronicled their plight in his speech. He recalled talking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}