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This is a collection of assorted observations from my travels and experiences. Many of the posts refer to life in Taiwan where I spent a year living and working. And many others are about my own country, Canada.

Thursday, September 15, 2005

 

Social Services & Welfare

CEO's who lose their jobs for poor performance get $20 million in payouts. Executive salaries and bonuses go up every year. The minimum wage and welfare benefits stay the same despite inflation. People on welfare are called lazy and 'welfare bums'. But executives getting overpaid are 'worth it'. An inquiry in Toronto just declared several Toronto bureaucrats and politicians to be on the take - one guy who ran for mayor took a bribe of $25,000 cash. That is only what they know for sure. He was there for many years and who knows what he really got. He will not spend one day in jail. He will not be asked to return the money or give it to the city. The poorest people on welfare are regularly harassed and told they will be cut off and they've been overpaid. The welfare office has bullet proof glass and security guards. A single person in Toronto on welfare gets about $7,000 per year to live on. To pay for rent, clothing, food, transportation etc. If they work their benefits will be reduced or cut off. If anyone else in society makes extra money on the side they are called inventive and industrious. Poor people are called cheats and scammers. The corrupt bureaucrats and politicians are getting paid through the same tax base that the welfare people are but they do not get cut off.

Social Services and welfare exist for these reasons:
1. To give the poor just enough crumbs so they will not revolt, go postal and start attacking or killing people.
2. To give a lot of government employees and bureaucrats good, well paying jobs with security and benefits.
3. To serve (very poorly) the people who need help. They are given barely enough to try to survive on. They are also given a lot of harassment, shame and assaults on any self esteem they might possess.



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