Introducing The BTG Basics Series!

October 20th, 2008 BTG Posted in BTG Basics, Site Updates |

Yesterday while perusing Facebook, I found that one of my friends was particularly anguished.

Here’s why:

on the bus - there was a poor family - a mother, father, the mother’s pimp, and two kids, a girl aged about 7, and a boy of about 5 or 6. the mother continually called her daughter a “dumb b****” and pulled her hair, while the girl yelled and swore at her parents. then the supposed “father” started banging his head on the window of the bus, so hard that everyone on the bus heard.

i had to get off the bus

No kidding :/

Her story really had an impact on me, first because of the horror it evokes, second because it made me re-consider everything I’m trying to acheive with this website. These people are part of BTG’s target market: the poor, the desperate, the forgotten, poor underclass of society.

This is the group of people BTG was founded to help, and to help help themselves. But are they listening? Or forget listening, can they even hear me, what with it being so expensive to use the internet in Canada?

And if they are able and willing to listen, what should I say to them? What knowledge can I pass along that would make a difference in their lives?

And what would they say back to me?

I think the answer to the last two questions is the same: I think they would tell me, and that I should, BRING IT BACK TO BASICS, tell people they need to know financially to survive, to live, and then to thrive.

With this in mind, it is my pleasure to introduce the BTG Basics Series:

BTG Basics will be a series of articles detailing the fundamental financial rights, financial education and financial products that you need to know about to survive in this world.

The first BTG Basics article will be posted later tonight, with further articles in the series happening at least once per week.

So let’s bring it back to basics, guys. Let’s start at the beginning, together, and work our way up from there.

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