An Interesting Perspective From a Taxpayer
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In too many cases, if the appropriate authority didn't pay heed to stereotypes or have to answer to bottom lines, people beneath those bottom lines could be treated to best advantage with due dignity.
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When I had moved to Toronto I had applied for unemployment from my last job in New Brunswick. I was asked why I quit my job in N.B. I told them a friend had just moved to Toronto, told me there may be better jobs than the part time job I had had in N.B. Needless to say, I got refused unemployment because I had quit my job. So of course, I went straight to the welfare office. The first cheque I got from them was about the same I received from my part time job in N.B. I thought, wow! I spent 6 months in Toronto, on welfare enjoying the sights and entertainment before I decided to fly off to Korea for a real job. I can see though, why some people do not want to go off it. Man, those cheques are big.
You sir obviously have never taken a drug stronger then an aspirin. I would have to infer from this statement that you know nothing of drug use. "usually ends in an overdose and death". If your opinion held water at all, the population of the world would be very much smaller than it is now. I personally know many who have been or are addicted to drugs. However I do not know anyone who has died from an overdose and I am not all that young. Your statement is small minded and just a stereotype that I feel is associated with holier than thou religious hypocrites.
When I had moved to Toronto I had applied for unemployment from my last job in New Brunswick. I was asked why I quit my job in N.B. I told them a friend had just moved to Toronto, told me there may be better jobs than the part time job I had had in N.B. Needless to say, I got refused unemployment because I had quit my job. So of course, I went straight to the welfare office. The first cheque I got from them was about the same I received from my part time job in N.B. I thought, wow! I spent 6 months in Toronto, on welfare enjoying the sights and entertainment before I decided to fly off to Korea for a real job. I can see though, why some people do not want to go off it. Man, those cheques are big.
"Those cheques are big...."
Did you borrow your avatar's glass or try some of the dope floating about in this thread to see that? $520.00 a month won't put a roof over your head - especially in Toronto - and you'd have to claim a living expense to get even that much - otherwise it's $195.00.
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See, I don't get that eh1eh. If you sign on with a company and they tell you their policy, you agree in order to get your paycheque, I don't think you have much right to bitch. Personally, if I were a company, I wouldn't be doing tests for pot, but I'd damn sure be wanting to weed out the meth heads. They're fricking freaky, and downright dangerous.
Hubby's company tests on hire, and tests if you have an accident. If you roll one of their trucks with meth or pot or alcohol in your system, you're turfed. They remind their guys regularly.
Hubby's company tests on hire, and tests if you have an accident. If you roll one of their trucks with meth or pot or alcohol in your system, you're turfed. They remind their guys regularly.
Geez, any kind of government money is hardly enough to keep anyone in Timmy's for a month let alone put a roof over your head, feed and clothe you.When I had moved to Toronto I had applied for unemployment from my last job in New Brunswick. I was asked why I quit my job in N.B. I told them a friend had just moved to Toronto, told me there may be better jobs than the part time job I had had in N.B. Needless to say, I got refused unemployment because I had quit my job. So of course, I went straight to the welfare office. The first cheque I got from them was about the same I received from my part time job in N.B. I thought, wow! I spent 6 months in Toronto, on welfare enjoying the sights and entertainment before I decided to fly off to Korea for a real job. I can see though, why some people do not want to go off it. Man, those cheques are big.
EI being based upon one's former salary is likely more than double plus what welfare would be and still won't pay my condo fees, hydro, gas, car payments and keep me supplied with cat food and litter. It won't even begin to cover my expenses in a month.
Therefore my guess would be you are young with zero responsibility other than keeping your own body and soul together...
A nice place to be I might add.
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Question: why do you think dope dealers sell to kids?
Answer: Because their current clientel keep dying off.
No it is you who is the acolyte in this matter- I on the other hand have first hand experience with Alcohol and drug abuse My brother died of an overdose, his sons are drug addicts, I have seen dozens of people die from it, be "it" heroin, crack, dillies, cough syrup, meth/speed some of them were related, others were friends of theirs- I contest that I could be considered an expert in this matter-
Question: why do you think dope dealers sell to kids?
Answer: Because their current clientel keep dying off.
This blame game is so amusing....
While CEOs rake in millions while their mortgage companies go broke and people are losing their homes and their futures...someone has taken the time to focus on the welfare bums...
No wonder our nations are screwed.....
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While CEOs rake in millions while their mortgage companies go broke and people are losing their homes and their futures...someone has taken the time to focus on the welfare bums...
No wonder our nations are screwed.....
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Sorry lester but I have to agree with eh1eh on this one. "Most" people that do drugs do not overdose OR die. The fact that 12 people you know have is quit abnormal. You could not find a single person on this site that could say the same. I am also quit courious of your nationality. Can you tell me, did any of these people that died or have overdosed have jobs? Anyways, the statement you made is false.
When it comes to pot, which is what the companies test for, there has never been a documented case of an overdose or death from the drug. It is impossible to happen.
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I have a friend who comes from a very good family, all of them are hard working middle class Canadians. He owned his home and had lived in it for five years always making a large principal payment every year, he had a new car (paid for), investments, made tons of cash. he got in with the wrong crowd and got strung out on crack and lost everything within three years. He is now recovering, albeit slowly. This sort of thing, sadly, is not all that uncommon.
Well most of these people did- it was in the seventies and eighties, and these were my brothers associates, I knew them all and even took one of them to the hospital once( he was po'ed because they gave him something and it ruined his high) but during that time these people went out of control and dropped like flies.It may be different now because it's meth and crack but the results are just as bad, when these people are desperate for the dope they will just about comit any kind of low act to get the money for it. They will steal anything not nailed down charity boxes(poppy fund), purses,Shoplift, robbery, B & E's and from family.
I have a friend who comes from a very good family, all of them are hard working middle class Canadians. He owned his home and had lived in it for five years always making a large principal payment every year, he had a new car (paid for), investments, made tons of cash. he got in with the wrong crowd and got strung out on crack and lost everything within three years. He is now recovering, albeit slowly. This sort of thing, sadly, is not all that uncommon.
I grew up during the 70's, one of the decades you refer to. You are right that there were many ODs and deaths back then. I could name a few people that either OD or got bumped off as the gangs and organized crime saw a lucrative, growing industry.
The drug industry was new.The drugs would come in from the States and get cut here. Dealers toted guns and hit up. I know the culture from then. It was akin to the wild west, very much a free for all. But that is not the same as now.
Guess you would not favour my idea of all drugs becoming legal and controlled like alcohol.
Oh I agree with you there Karrie.
But in the "old" days drug running was done by "citizens" not by gangs. And at the beginning "citizens" didn't know *sh*t* about the drugs nor the effects on the body. Sometimes they died. And it was a much smaller circle of people who did the controlling.
Hell I was young and not even into the drugs although I had very close connections with people who did. It is not the same "drug" culture now as back then...
I remember seeing people hit up and literally "going out" with the needle still in their arm. Things were wild. More people did die from the "regular" community.
Now your average person may well do prescription drugs.
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Actually, I would be in favour of pot, but I don't think addictive drugs should be legal, unless they are part of a medical/psych treatment program.
I remember once I went with my brother to his buddies house, and they were capping(putting dope in gel caps) something or another and they would keep licking their fingers in between caps, 20 minutes later they were so loaded they couldn't get off the couch.
Actually, I would be in favour of pot, but I don't think addictive drugs should be legal, unless they are part of a medical/psych treatment program.
I remember once I went with my brother to his buddies house, and they were capping(putting dope in gel caps) something or another and they would keep licking their fingers in between caps, 20 minutes later they were so loaded they couldn't get off the couch.
Personally I don't feel that pot is addictive, and it really has not been proven like it has with tobacco and liquor and many other over the counter drugs and trust me the side effect of it compared to most all of the Pharm's drugs makes you wonder who is in control of the FDA.