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1. This guy may never get out of basic training alive - hazing could reach new heights of humiliation for him. Click here for the story of an army deserter who wears womens' panties.
2. Will obesity get you off a criminal charge? This guy is so big he left the house, for the first time in years, in a U-Haul van. Got to the court and the cops and the judge then came down to the van to see him. The prison system says that they can accommodate him if he is jailed. Bet you he comes out a helluva a lot thinner than when he went in!
3. Mark Bonokowski of the "Sun" writes about the profile of the homeless. In tracking the demographic of a Mens Shelter, in Toronto. He brings out points that the stimulus package will not fix. The majority of money is going to projects and retraining, but for what. These guys in the shelter are middle-aged uneducated and willing to work but can't find unskilled labouring jobs. Every single person boasting about the allocated funds talks about a "knowledge society" but what about the meantime. If municipalities can't afford the matching funds for the stimulus, if there will be increased welfare costs because EI hasn't been reformed, just how much can property taxpayers afford? Just how do you deal with the social devestation produced by government policies making sure that people who apply for assistance have to burn through every asset they own before being allowed to apply. What sense does it make to force people to sell houses and cars before they are allowed to get help. How do we have a productive society if we have to break it apart to restore it?
2. Will obesity get you off a criminal charge? This guy is so big he left the house, for the first time in years, in a U-Haul van. Got to the court and the cops and the judge then came down to the van to see him. The prison system says that they can accommodate him if he is jailed. Bet you he comes out a helluva a lot thinner than when he went in!
3. Mark Bonokowski of the "Sun" writes about the profile of the homeless. In tracking the demographic of a Mens Shelter, in Toronto. He brings out points that the stimulus package will not fix. The majority of money is going to projects and retraining, but for what. These guys in the shelter are middle-aged uneducated and willing to work but can't find unskilled labouring jobs. Every single person boasting about the allocated funds talks about a "knowledge society" but what about the meantime. If municipalities can't afford the matching funds for the stimulus, if there will be increased welfare costs because EI hasn't been reformed, just how much can property taxpayers afford? Just how do you deal with the social devestation produced by government policies making sure that people who apply for assistance have to burn through every asset they own before being allowed to apply. What sense does it make to force people to sell houses and cars before they are allowed to get help. How do we have a productive society if we have to break it apart to restore it?
1 comments:
It's funny how welfare becomes a topic worthy of discussion when middle class people start to lose their jobs. Not sure the issue of asset levels is such a big one for the system, it seems to me that most of the folks on welfare are chronically poor without assets anyway,and the new applicants with assets would find they get spent quite quickly.
The rules would allow them - to some extent - to pay off outstanding bills and mortgages, and that would be a way to dispose of them that would still provide a benefit to the person and allow them to qualify for welfare too. Unless of course they applied the rule that says you're ineligible for 3 years if your worker/welfare office manager decides you disposed of assets deliberately to qualify for benefits.
In the end it's all quite subjective, and municipalities like Northumberland are the quickest to assume the worst and cut families off.
For the record there is an appeal system that takes at least a year to resolve any issue.
The single most crucial thing the Province needs to do for people on welfare is raise the rates.
DJO
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