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Can’t understand people who: Choose somebody to put up on a pedestal, pay them their weight in gold & practically worship them. These people are not chosen because they work harder or because they are more moral or ethical, or are good at something, but simply because they have more money. They feel that we should work hard all our lives to make this person or people even richer, throw our conscience out the door for them & if we loose our jobs, grovel around saying how worthless we are & don’t deserve to live & should hand over our homes we’ve been making payments on all our lives to these wealthy people, even though we may be decent people, who work hard if given a chance (aren’t as lazy and immoral as them). This is called the Worship of the Wealthy & really makes no sense. Some people say, “I’m lazy. but if/when I make the effort I will get rich & then don’t want to share it.” They don’t want to know that hard-working people don’t (aren’t allowed to) get rich. Knowing that would spoil their fantasy, like telling them there is no Santa Claus, get furious if you say their fantasy world doesn’t exist. T here is also a fallacy out there in another area. They assume that with no social services they won’t have to pay taxes. They will pay as much in taxes. It will just go to the rich instead of benefiting all Canadians. That’s why they have to keep some of us locked out of the working world, so they can blame us for having to pay taxes. If we didn’t get the pittance we do, you would still have to pay the same taxes.

Smithers, you must really hate your grandparents, unless they are wealthy people. Hope you remember your words when you are 65.

[How would you feel if it was your mother or grandmother, who had worked for 30 years, doing office work, which she was good at, even though she had bad feet (doesn’t affect your brain), then lost her job 10 years before retirement age & couldn’t get another job because she didn’t look young any more & so had people threatening to yank her home out from under her, screaming lazy bum at her? – because she didn’t hitch out to Alberta to work at back-breaking labour?

Hollus You are living in the real world.

To Geoffrey: Your comment about this post being based on misinformation: The post is founded on personal experience: Applying for 100’s of jobs (literally) & being told by employers they got between 400 – 1000 applications. Attending Job Finding Clubs that serve a huge number of people Feeling amazed and horrified that no-one would hire me before my savings ran out. (I found a job quickly in 1992 when we were supposed to be having a recession) After your savings run out, you are really desperate & would take ANYTHING that would pay your bills, the bank starts threatening to take your home. (Why homelessness isn’t a completely different issue. People deny this because it is too terrifying to contemplate) Min. wage won’t put a roof over your head. To People in Alberta: Re moving there. I was told one job was definitely permanent, even thought the large co. that hired me had just had several rounds of lay-offs. 2 mos. later my job was gone too. I heard about people moving across the country for jobs (never heard of a co. paying moving expenses) only to have the same experience & be in some strange small town, unemployed again. (Again, this is my experience. I heard there are SOME companies that pay moving expenses) To: Hydraboss: Sounds like you pay amazing wages!! As per Your statement, “The fact that you don't think that you should work for less than $714 bi-weekly is b.s. I don't know who you were working for, but I've got GENERAL LABOURERS making $3800 gross monthly. Get a job, and quit sucking up the social programs unless you HAVE TO.” Do you really think anybody would choose the social assistance pittance to that?? To Hicksey: Your quote: “I went and got my trucking license. There's always a job out there doing that. It's not hard. EI paid all but $500 of the price of the course.” I know someone who did everything in his power to get the trucking course. If a hard-working person (you have to be hard-working to run a small business) had to give up on their business, they are not entitled to E.I. That means NOBODY (They checked every possibility) would pay for the trucking course. Personally, I’m thinking of mid-fifties women. Very few of us have the strength of Hercules, BUT we have skills that don’t require that – e.g. are good at clerical work, etc. They get laid of in droves, ten years before they hit 65. Thousands of them could lose their homes. They are out there desperately applying for jobs, while the bank managers cackle & rub their hands thinking of doing a Power of Sale on all those homes. Then another stab in the back is that the CPP you’ve contributed to for 30 years will no be adding 0 into its calculating process. People always say if there was full employment the sky would fall. I suspect it wouldn’t. There are people (economists) who could explain why better than I could – Linda McQuaig, or else see the C.A.P. website if you are really interested. Secondly, who should we sacrifice for unemployment? I have experienced the small town west - a few govt. jobs & a few private jobs – all extremely low paid; power bills are much higher due to the climate. Other expenses cancel out the lower housing costs. We also got to know some of the Indians (aboriginals) who were decent people and lived in the most impoverished conditions, some were better off & really resented for it.

WHY DO OUR COUNTRY’S LEADERS WANT TO SEE MASS HOMELESSNESS IN CANADA IN THE NEAR FUTURE? inexplicably insist there is the lowest level of unemployment when it’s got to be the highest, since each poorly paid, part-time job advertised receives a thousand applications from over-qualified applicants) People have to accept salaries and wages that are at least $5k less than they made at their last job, or less. seem to be deliberately producing a situation, that will cause mass homelessness in Canada in the near future. What reason could you possibly have for doing this? Only one political leader, Connie Fogal, C.A.P. (Canadian Action Party) responded to my concern & said “It is a shame that this situation is being created & tolerated.” The situation I was talking about: Unemployment. Over a million Canadians, possibly over two million Canadians, WANT TO WORK and can’t find jobs.