$2000 fuel bills kill career hopes
Province shattering people’s dreams
It’s 6:05 in the morning. I’m parked at a fuel station, trying to fight back tears as I watch the numbers tick by, seemingly with no end.
As I stand there, burdened with the $2,000 bill I just paid for fuel, a dump truck with a pup pulls up in the other lane.
A young man hops out, probably in his late twenties, says, “Good morning,” to me, and I respond.
After a few minutes, we start chatting about fuel prices.
He goes on to say how he worked his ass off to save up enough money to buy a truck and a pup, and he started his own business four years ago.
“Every year, I believe this is going to be my year. It’s the year I’m going to break out. I’m going to actually make some money and support my family.”
But every year is a disappointment.
And I feel his pain because I feel the same way.
A young man, an entrepreneur, trying to carve out a life for himself, struggling like hundreds of thousands of others, just trying to contribute and have something he can be proud of.
After a silence, he looks at me and says, “I don’t know. I think this is the year I’m giving it up. I might just go work for one of the big guys. I don’t know if I can afford to keep going.”
This province is shattering people’s dreams. Eliminating any hope for competition and putting economic power in the hands of big companies.
There is no room for the little guy anymore.
The dream of owning your own small business in British Columbia, Canada, seems to be dead.
He stops his pump at $600.
“That’s all I can afford right now. Anyway have a good day sir”
And off he goes to try to carve out a living in a province, country that doesn’t give a shit about him.
Society thrives on the shoulders of young men like him. Up at 5:00 a.m., carrying the burden of supporting his family, funding the government, doing the work that no one else wants to do, while the bureaucrats and politicians sit in Victoria, slapping each other on the back, celebrating all the revenue they’re bringing in off hardworking young men like him.
This is the story of our province.
Our country.
It is failing young Canadians.
My heart broke driving away from that pump this morning.
