25th May 2003, 9:24 PM
You make it sound like you live the hardest life in the world, Weltall. Gee, those long hours at Wal-Mart! Sitting on your ass all day! Tough love, indeed! God, you are one of the most selfish people I've seen. You just care soooo much about how high YOUR quality of life is. YOUR paycheck. I bet you any amount of money that if say you were fired from your job and suddenly there were no available jobs, you couldn't afford rent for your house, got ejected from your house, and had to live on the streets, man would you be wishing for welfare. And how about you are livnig on the streets, and a group of thugs came, curb stomped your ass, and broke your arms and a leg? Well, you'd crawl to a hospital and they'd refuse to help you out 'cause you have no money.
Shit like this happens to people. And I bet every one of them were thinking, "well, it's all my fault I have no money. And these broken legs? I can live with them. It doesn't matter that I will probably die because I'll be rotting on the streets the rest of my short life. In order to keep our country fully capitalist, we have to refrain from giving money to the needy, so we have the ultimate society!!"
No.
Do you think that ANY deserving person (albeit one with horrible luck)who deserves a steady paycheck should have to beg for money and live in a box and hope to god he doesn't catch a cold? Godamn, this stuff HAPPENS. As much in Canada as the US. The difference being though is that with Welfare services in Canada, the government can put them back on their feet and have them working at a steady job soon enough. Welfare services are around to help people BACK on their feet, not as a paycheck for their entire lives. Welfare does not last a lifetime.
Imagine your best friend needs to have a heart transplant. He can afford it, but it would cost around 200 grande. He would be set back for many, many years should he pay for it. So instead of paying all that money, how about far, far, far, far, far less than that a year in taxes to insure he gets this ever-important transplant. It is a MUCH better system than to have a dirt-poor life until you can repay the 200 grande.
But I imagine you are thinking to yourself, "eh, that's life. Tough love. Suck it up."
'Tough love' is a saying that will work with a hockey coach, or a football coach making the players do push ups for screwing up. Hockey and football are games. A person's health and well being is life. Tough love just doesn't make sense in the game of life.
Nobody deserves to be living in a sewer their whole life. Everyone deserves a roof over their head.
Shit like this happens to people. And I bet every one of them were thinking, "well, it's all my fault I have no money. And these broken legs? I can live with them. It doesn't matter that I will probably die because I'll be rotting on the streets the rest of my short life. In order to keep our country fully capitalist, we have to refrain from giving money to the needy, so we have the ultimate society!!"
No.
Do you think that ANY deserving person (albeit one with horrible luck)who deserves a steady paycheck should have to beg for money and live in a box and hope to god he doesn't catch a cold? Godamn, this stuff HAPPENS. As much in Canada as the US. The difference being though is that with Welfare services in Canada, the government can put them back on their feet and have them working at a steady job soon enough. Welfare services are around to help people BACK on their feet, not as a paycheck for their entire lives. Welfare does not last a lifetime.
Imagine your best friend needs to have a heart transplant. He can afford it, but it would cost around 200 grande. He would be set back for many, many years should he pay for it. So instead of paying all that money, how about far, far, far, far, far less than that a year in taxes to insure he gets this ever-important transplant. It is a MUCH better system than to have a dirt-poor life until you can repay the 200 grande.
But I imagine you are thinking to yourself, "eh, that's life. Tough love. Suck it up."
'Tough love' is a saying that will work with a hockey coach, or a football coach making the players do push ups for screwing up. Hockey and football are games. A person's health and well being is life. Tough love just doesn't make sense in the game of life.
Nobody deserves to be living in a sewer their whole life. Everyone deserves a roof over their head.