Raise the Hammer

Woody10: Talk about negative attitude, how can you make assumptions about those on social assistance? You talk about the kids getting jobs but what about the parents that must support them?

What you don't realize is how the system keeps people in dire straits but one would have to experience it, to understand it.

Do you realize if someone gets sick, say who has cancer or some other dilibating disease that a person languishes on ontario works getting around 550.00 per month for about three years before they can access ODSP, which is no picnic either. I challenge you to live on the that amount for a few months, just so you can get the taste of it. Go stand in line at the foodbanks for hours, to get food that does not meet nutritional needs, it is sometimes rotten, filled with vermin, sometimes you get nothing after standing in line for hours. But what do you care about that, right. Is a person to be blame because they get sick? Should they have to live in extreme poverty?

You cannot label all into one catagory.

I advocate for living wages, if not living wages then at least add benefit packages for those who earn low wages, at least that would help when their children get sick. Provide for education, real education not the crap that some of these agencies push people into that do NOTHING. I guess you did not read the article in the Star on on LMR's and how it failing those workers who have been injuried. But as long as the consultants are making money off the backs of those less fortunate, everything is ok.

How about a workers center that actually advocates for those workers who are wronged and cannot access legal services. A person could lose their job due to wrongful dismissal, especially those in the temp industry of which there is no protection, some aren't even entitled to EI, even though they have the hours.

No, our system sends people to learn how to do a resume, what does that have to do with employment rights, nothing. It just keeps feeding the poverty industry, those who earn in access of 100,000, telling others to live in dire straits.

Let us hope that you do not lose your job, exhaust EI, then have to depend on the system, or maybe you should. Maybe you need to experience being told that you must work at a job for a few weeks, yet not get paid.

I want for people to be self sufficient, to live in dignity, to have hope but if the policies are not changed, then the same old patterns will continue. Quit blaming those at the bottom for the wrongs of those at the top.