At first I thought that this was a joke. It’s not. Here’s the opening post:
Hi guys, I am a disillusioned traveller and even more disillusioned couchsurfer who is returning to Vancouver because of a complete lack of enthusiasm and lack of desire to be anywhere else, and have decided that after decades of paying taxes it is time for me to start collecting welfare. Anyone been on the dole? Know how to make a successful application?
It’s now crystal clear why my hometown has become Loserville. 🙁
Update: A female Chinese-Canadian friend of mine moved to Vancouver from Singapore about 4 years ago. Publicly, she had something very interesting to say about the Occupy crowd:
Instead of camping out and protesting about the inequality and differences between the upper/middle/lower class income, protesters could spend those times looking for jobs. One job is not enough, do two jobs, three jobs, etc.. Do one full-time, and freelance at home, or do two part-times, and some freelance.. That’s what I did during the one year I was looking for a full-time position. Economy’s bad, is just an excuse. If one is willing to, there’s all sorts of jobs around. When I first arrived in Vancouver, I would go to people’s houses by myself and cleaned their houses for them as maids, and they would pay me in cash (while I was studying full-time). You would gradually work yourself up.. even if it means swallowing your pride or dignity, dirtying your hands, etc… Gradually, if you did a good job, people would recognise your efforts and help you out. It’s all about the attitude.
Take a moment to envision the entitlement junkies in the Occupy tent cities and ask yourself what percentage of them would likely be willing to clean houses?
I like this comment. Apparently not being able to collect money for nothing is an attack on civil liberties….who knew???
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Allison,
Thank-you for starting this post, even if I don’t agree with your motives.
Annabliss,
WOW! So now, those that may need welfare the most can no longer access it ~ OUCH! Another attack on our civil liberties…
If only the “rich” paid their “fair” share, we could all go on welfare.
/sarc
Robert, my Vancouver compatriot.
It’s a fantastic day here.
Take a hike!
With your camera on the seawalls again.
Grieve for the modern welfare state which prevails (in its death throes) all across the West not for Vancouver in particular which is no more “Loserville” than any other city in Canada.
The couchsurfing lifestyle really takes a toll.
Poor guy.
A level-headed social worker posted this:
“Just my own opinion here, welfare benefits are extremely low and NOT for people that are there to ‘slack off’. You can earn more money working 40 hours a week at minimum wage then being on welfare. Welfare is there for people in extreme poverty or fleeing an abusive situation, not for people who need a break.”
“Willing to clean houses?” – not a chance.
But the Occupy crowd would sure be willing to CLEAN OUT your house of its valuables … while you were busy at work paying taxes to fund their free rise.
“You can earn more money working 40 hours a week “
Perhaps, but these are sort of people who can earn more money collecting all the wonderful benefits of welfare cash … including health care, and yes … dentistry too … and bus pass, clothing allowances, prescription drugs etc.
ALL WHILE WORKING UNDER THE TABLE FOR CASH …. DO THE MATH FOOL.
In it’s advanced state it looks something like THIS
We are such suckers to put up with this sort of thing. And I heard that Mayor Groggy Robinson has resorted to standing beside the squatters and issuing a few stern “aw c’mon eh’s”.
-Oh ya …. I should mention that pan handling, dealing drugs and theft are considered viable ‘under the table’ professions. Works for thousands of the all across the country.
This “disillusioned couchsurfer” says he’s been paying taxes for DECADES – just how old is this guy? I though couchsurfers were in the 16 to 30 age range.
Barbara,
Down in the comments someone said the couchserver (Allison) was 28…..so DECADES is a REAL stretch (unless it’s calculated using the new math…).
Thanks for that video,Abe.
The character of Vancouver’s Mayor will be on full display this Thursday when the victims of capitalism have to vacate the streets. I’m not optimistic.
Funny,I know many Asians who immigrated here, were willing to do the hard and dirty jobs,and are now successful and first rate citizens,but many Canadian-born types who expect it all to be handed to them.
Hm.
Barbara:
Furthermore, I believe Allison is a female monicker.
There’s a whole website for ‘couchsurfing’, whatever that is?
I regard to letting someone from Occupy Vancouver (or, wherever)enter my house to clean, I’d be really, really leery of that. Who knows what disease, germs or whatever they’d leave behind. Beside, I’d have to monitor to make sure they didn’t steal anything that wasn’t tied down.
Funny thing, I was thinking about this very thing on the weekend. Pipeline companies are crying for operators/labourers and anything else with 2 feet and a heart bear yet these yahoos can’t a job. I think they really mean the jobs that are available are “below their station”.
I definitely would not trust any of these OWS to clean my house. Any good reason why should you trust?
I served tables while going to school. THEN… I delivered pizza’s for two years to pay for my kids sports and activities AFTER I graduated and entered the work force in my new career. I figuratively ‘hung-on’ to a quote I heard somewhere that “there is no shame in an honest day’s work” when I felt embarrassed that I was delivering pizzas. Today, 5 years later, I’m looking at the second “offer I can’t refuse” in less than a year, and I don’t have to deliver pizza anymore! I still sometimes regret the money I’ve left on the table quitting the pizza job.
I wish I could stress to these people that it’s not too late for them. When I went to back to school, I was the same age as many of these protesters. It’s a difficult sell though, as it took me 10 years to get where I was going, and I moved along quickly in the work force. Was it worth it? Heck Yeah!
Not to worry, Robert.
At some point, the next big earthquake will make Banff the next big seaport on the Pacific.
Is it possible to contain them in Vancouver, like Alberta is able to keep out rats?
The first link was a joke…unintentional but a joke nonetheless, these idiots have taken self-mockery to an art form…
As far as new seaports go…Hope or Chilliwack would be good for now…
First extended job was as a dishwasher in a seaside volume restaurant on the island.
Nothing motivates one more to succeed for better things, than cleaning off other peoples scraps, and cleaning grease traps.
These deadbeats at the Occupy squats will forever be useless dregs on society. Can’t blame society for your own laziness, sloth and addictions, yet that’s famous, entrenched leftard territory
Just a question from the Balmy South:
How many of the Occupy Wherever bozos even know HOW to clean a house????!!??
I’m thinking “not a lot”.
Couch surfing? Go stay at some stranger’s place picked at random from the Intertubes? Yeah, that sounds safe.
Poor widdle Allison got “disillusioned” with couch surfing? LUCKY GIRL, she could have got -dead-, and wouldn’t that have sucked?
The kid will rapidly find out just how little she’s going to get on welfare, have a rather touching “WTF!!!?” moment as she considers just what living on such a pittance would look like, and go out and get a job. For sure.
That’s what makes welfare such a diabolical thing. To live on it you have to become corrupt and crooked, running five or six scams at once and living in some seriously disgusting place with other seriously disgusting people. Most of whom are frigged up on drugs.
Easier to work.
I’m sure somewhere in the OWS crowd is a potential Steve Jobs who just needs to turn his brilliant mind toward big dreams, create a wildly innovative product, nurture it to enormous popularity, and create hundreds of thousands of jobs….
….or maybe not.
We have an entire culture that thinks it is far too civilised to get one’s hands dirty. That is what “those brown people” who make their i-PODs are for.
Institutionalised elitism and idleness.
Clean houses? They probably don’t clean their own.
The jobs that pay well require hard work and/or usable skills. These louts have neither. They also have the disadvantage of not being located in nice metro areas.
If you pay them, they will stay.
I’ve done the dishwashing bit and other low-paying manual labor. That’s why they are called entry level jobs. I’ll help those who need it, but I won’t subsidize the slacker lifestyle.
Clean houses? They probably don’t clean their own room. (fixed)