round up all the homeless people
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She's tried to bum a cigarette a few times but I think she knows me well enough after a few death stares.
There was a charter challange. Begging was found to be "free speech" so the cops can do nothing about beggers unless they are violent etc.
No, we pay for a disfunctional one that funds people's drug habits rather than their livelihood. Welfare is supposed to be a safety net, not a means to a lifestyle. I have no problem pitching in for a functioning and well-monitored welfare system.
But all I need to do is look out my window to see how crappy the current system is. My neighbours are on welfare. Three kids and the two parents. All five are on drugs (the youngest is thirteen). The mom works three days a week for 5 hours each day (custodian). The dad doesn't work, even though he's repeatedly been offered a job by someone down the street who is a carpenter. The oldest son has went through five jobs in the last two years because they keep firing him for not showing up. The younger two don't work, even though the older one is 20 and out of school for 3 years. They live in subsidized housing. They don't exactly live it up, but they have enough money to eat well, watch cable, buy a beat up RV and a boat, buy multiple vehicles (older models), buy two packs of cigarettes a day and buy enough weed that they are perpetually high.
As far as I'm concerned, welfare should provide enough funding for a place to stay, adequate food, and clothing. That's it. If it provides enough funding to live a comfortable lifestyle many will choose that rather than seeking something self-sustaining.
welfare for a single person, no kids is between 5 and 6 hundred a month. when i drove cab i picked up 2 guys that were both single and had to split rent on a single room above a shitty welfare bar, 1 paid rent the other paid for food. 1 slept on the floor, the other slept in the bed and they switched every other night. i asked why they didn't get a couch and they said the room wasn't big enough. neither had any skills what so ever and were in their late 50's early 60's and would never get hired anywhere. so they were fucked and it was the best they could do and had to look forward to spending the rest of their lives like that.
your situation is more often than not the case though.
Are you kidding me?
"Homeless" has become an industry in Toronto. And by that I mean - a lot of people make a damn good living at administering a multitude of social programs for the homeless.
In fact, about 4 or 5 years ago, I remember reading that "the homeless budget" in the City of Toronto was 220 million dollars a year. That's more than the city spends on bridges, roads and watermains put together.
Something to keep in mind.
