CTV Regina:Should homeless people be given bus tickets to return home or for employment opportunities?
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How about a one way ticket to Nunavut?
I think most homeless people should be made aware of the much more generous social programs in BC and in Quebec and PEI. They would be crazy to stay in places like Saskatchewan and Alberta when they could live much more luxurious lives in PEI, Quebec or BC. I say free one way tickets back east for any liberal that wants one.
The Poverty Pimp industry is alive and well here in BC.
Particularly Wangcouver and Whacktoria, where the SJWs provide all the necessities of life, to provide co-dependence to the drunks and addicts, so they can carry on their party lifestyle, picking up their tabs.
Its disgusting, but the lefties think they are helping them, when, all they are doing, is helping the scammers scam.
Pandora St in Victoria is just an open party from April to October, on the wide grassy boulevards, with “Our Place” across the street, providing three free meals a day, for their pleasure.
The Poverty Pimp industry is full of do gooders, who are totally clueless to the damage they do, by providing a cleaner glass to drink from, and a cleaner needle to get high from. Its just the KINDEST thing to do, isn’t it?
I’m really disapointed with the Saskatchewan NDP, two homeless dudes from B.C.? They couldn’t find a dead toddler washed up on the beach..?..#WheresFinDonnely
free houses in Detroit, you guys…
I like to think of it as a “Harm Redistribution”(tm) program.
I lived in Burnaby for 10 yrs where Vancouver addicts would ride the bus for free to better neighborhoods to steal from, then catch another free ride back to the downtown eastside to trade their goodies in for drugs. Thanks Translink .
I now live in the S. Okanagan and met a friend who manages a place that houses many of these social worker’s pet projects. The things I have seen and heard are incredible. Many are young, otherwise healthy people who set meth, alcohol and cigarettes as life’s priorities, in that order. They get their food from the food bank and get free rent, rides to doc appts and even delivered food hampers all supplied by their new parents, the nanny state.
But, the sight to truly behold there is Welfare Wednesday. The booze flows and the pizzas and taxis fly as they party on hardworking taxpayers’ money. Many blow everything not intended for rent in a day or two and go right back to begging for money and smokes. They do f^ck-all all day long and, from what I can see, have no incentive to change whatsoever.
I am starting to wonder if a meth addiction might give me a more relaxed, stress-free retirement than my hard-earned CPP contributions ever could.
I recall an interview with some EXTREMELY wealthy entrepreneur (I can’t remember who), who explained why he never GAVE everything to his children. With perfect clarity of purpose, he said that he could never intentionally CRIPPLE his children by GIVING them everything possible. He considered their STRUGGLE to be an ESSENTIAL part of their physical and spiritual beings. To coddle them and insulate them by giving them everything would be equal to cutting-off one of their legs. To engineer their success was to devalue them and disrespect them. Of course he provided for their needs … but NEVER spoiled them or facilitated their success. Yes, his kids were all adult successes … in endeavors completely different than his.
As for myself … I grew up POOR. With an alcoholic father who drank up the majority of each paycheck, and an absentee mother who remarried and dumped her two boys. I literally had to hitch-hike to the next-town (where I lived with friends) to and from high school in my sophomore year. And when I was first married, we had ONE automobile. My wife worked a different schedule than I, which forced me to WALK approx. 45 min. home from BART each day after work (Rents were too high near transit). NEVER in my life would I have thought that the taxpayers should pay for my bus ride. And I must admit that it completely baffles me that anyone even thinks that bus rides need be doled-out of the public treasury.
What do they say ? What doesn’t kill you, just makes you tougher ? Trust me … I am effin bulletproof. A little adversity isn’t necessarily a BAD thing. No one is more GRATEFUL for what they have, than me.
“I say free one way tickets back east for any liberal that wants one.”
I say free one way tickets back east for ALL liberals whether they want one or not.
I second THAT motion!
perhaps, perhaps, due to the horrible ghastly and 50 tonne weight of the addictiveness of meth, a previously totally untried but researched method to free these unfortunates from the grip of meth is needed.
the Q I pose time and again which has morphed into rhetorical, is why, why, WHY does ANYBODY try that goddamn stuff even once, KNOWING how addictive it is?
Our homeless should be given jobs where they help refugees move into their taxpayer funded homes.
What’s that saying? Insanity is repeating the same thing over and….
The Downtown Eastside (DES)is a petting zoo for high minded SJWarriors who really, really don’t want to see it improve. Witness several businesses who tried to establish themselves in the DES and provide opportunities for some of the reasonably functional citizens there.
They were immediately attacked for bringing ‘gentrification’ to the area. Restaurant patrons who believed they were spending their dollars in supporting the formerly unemployed were verbally harassed, with the ‘down and outers’ – many of whom were simply supportive leftists with their own homes and incomes – would stare through the windows at them as they ate.
Meanwhile, BC (and federal) taxpayers) continue to pour literally billions of dollars into this cesspool, with no improvement whatsoever. One can walk down even Granville St. and see ‘sandwich boards’ (aptly named) declaring the many facilities available for free breakfast, lunch, dinner and a place to lay your head.
SJWarriors don’t want residents of the area to hit rock bottom – they’d prefer to maintain them at a level just above death, though a few deaths are good for business too as they are useful in arguing that the DES is underfunded and neglected. It’s been thus for at least the last 50 years and I don’t see it changing unless and until the ‘kindness and generosity’ that sustains it is removed.
Some tough love is definitely required.
You can say the same about cigarettes, alcohol, pot, heroin, oxy, etc.
Is the substance addictive, or the individual?
Some people have no taste for pot, but can’t stop at one drink, and the opposite for pot.
true. but the things you list are I suppose, not highly addictive to the majority of those who imbibe.
not so meth. what are the precise numbers? search me. BUT on a graph showing the proportion who wind up addicted to meth compared to booze, pot, whatever. its gotta be off the scale.
thus the Q. why try it? to quote Mr Spock, ‘it’s illogical’. well, my contention is man is NOT the ‘most intelligent species’. that’s why. he fashions the most tools, yes, leverages his strengths via technology. BUT the *applications* leave a lot to be desired.
Let’s analyse this.
CBC sez:
….they were offered bus tickets to Vancouver.
In fact the young man said:
“I asked for a ticket…..
“If I could have stayed and got funded at the Lighthouse, I would have stayed.”
So if he got funded he would go on being useless for the next period. Instead he says that he will get a job in Vancouver.
Really?
The other young man has a medical condition, how is it that whatever agency looks after that is not doing its job. What the hell do they get paid for?
There is no sympathy here for the two, they got where they are all by themselves. They will have to work really, really hard to get out of where they are.
Help would be welcome if they are serious about getting a job or go to school to learn something useful.
Other than that they have to do it on their own. Nobody but nobody can make them do it.
That’s the way it is.
Dependency is the progressive way,be it drug or economic.For many Canadians, dependency
is the free ticket, while for their benefactors,bestowing benefits,especially taxpayer funded is their drug.
Again, I suspect their is more to the story, as a bus ticket is often a vehicle in a
fraudulent scheme, where bus tickets or vouchers can be turned into money or morphine.
“But the Q is, why try it?” Because so many put themselves first, or only.
Because the stats are for other people. Because I’ve heard it will make me feel good. Because I can quit any time I want. Because I’m not like those losers without my willpower. Because I’m the only one that matters. Because the drugs I’m taking now doesn’t give me that elusive euphoria any more. Because there’s no consequences for me because I live in the now. Because I only live once so I’m gonna try everything once. Because I have no hope when I’m off drugs. Because I don’t want to work. Because the bar is too high for me to get into work/school (out-of-character note: “bar is too high” can mean “they expect me to show up and try, and I don’t want to do that”).
The solution is to close more army bases and give these homes to the homeless and put the army guys into hotels or tents in Syrian and put the patrons of the hotels on buses and airplanes back home where they came from.
Taranna and Hongcouver should be paying the one-way bus fares to bolster their Victim Industry’s.
Unfortunately they already hold a monopoly and oversupply on downtrodden Liberal voters so the rest is up to us.
Why pay for their tickets?
Simply insist all welfare recipients work for their handout.
They will leave on their own.
How about a one way ticket to Nunavut?
I think most homeless people should be made aware of the much more generous social programs in BC and in Quebec and PEI. They would be crazy to stay in places like Saskatchewan and Alberta when they could live much more luxurious lives in PEI, Quebec or BC. I say free one way tickets back east for any liberal that wants one.
The Poverty Pimp industry is alive and well here in BC.
Particularly Wangcouver and Whacktoria, where the SJWs provide all the necessities of life, to provide co-dependence to the drunks and addicts, so they can carry on their party lifestyle, picking up their tabs.
Its disgusting, but the lefties think they are helping them, when, all they are doing, is helping the scammers scam.
Pandora St in Victoria is just an open party from April to October, on the wide grassy boulevards, with “Our Place” across the street, providing three free meals a day, for their pleasure.
The Poverty Pimp industry is full of do gooders, who are totally clueless to the damage they do, by providing a cleaner glass to drink from, and a cleaner needle to get high from. Its just the KINDEST thing to do, isn’t it?
I’m really disapointed with the Saskatchewan NDP, two homeless dudes from B.C.? They couldn’t find a dead toddler washed up on the beach..?..#WheresFinDonnely
free houses in Detroit, you guys…
I like to think of it as a “Harm Redistribution”(tm) program.
I lived in Burnaby for 10 yrs where Vancouver addicts would ride the bus for free to better neighborhoods to steal from, then catch another free ride back to the downtown eastside to trade their goodies in for drugs. Thanks Translink .
I now live in the S. Okanagan and met a friend who manages a place that houses many of these social worker’s pet projects. The things I have seen and heard are incredible. Many are young, otherwise healthy people who set meth, alcohol and cigarettes as life’s priorities, in that order. They get their food from the food bank and get free rent, rides to doc appts and even delivered food hampers all supplied by their new parents, the nanny state.
But, the sight to truly behold there is Welfare Wednesday. The booze flows and the pizzas and taxis fly as they party on hardworking taxpayers’ money. Many blow everything not intended for rent in a day or two and go right back to begging for money and smokes. They do f^ck-all all day long and, from what I can see, have no incentive to change whatsoever.
I am starting to wonder if a meth addiction might give me a more relaxed, stress-free retirement than my hard-earned CPP contributions ever could.
I recall an interview with some EXTREMELY wealthy entrepreneur (I can’t remember who), who explained why he never GAVE everything to his children. With perfect clarity of purpose, he said that he could never intentionally CRIPPLE his children by GIVING them everything possible. He considered their STRUGGLE to be an ESSENTIAL part of their physical and spiritual beings. To coddle them and insulate them by giving them everything would be equal to cutting-off one of their legs. To engineer their success was to devalue them and disrespect them. Of course he provided for their needs … but NEVER spoiled them or facilitated their success. Yes, his kids were all adult successes … in endeavors completely different than his.
As for myself … I grew up POOR. With an alcoholic father who drank up the majority of each paycheck, and an absentee mother who remarried and dumped her two boys. I literally had to hitch-hike to the next-town (where I lived with friends) to and from high school in my sophomore year. And when I was first married, we had ONE automobile. My wife worked a different schedule than I, which forced me to WALK approx. 45 min. home from BART each day after work (Rents were too high near transit). NEVER in my life would I have thought that the taxpayers should pay for my bus ride. And I must admit that it completely baffles me that anyone even thinks that bus rides need be doled-out of the public treasury.
What do they say ? What doesn’t kill you, just makes you tougher ? Trust me … I am effin bulletproof. A little adversity isn’t necessarily a BAD thing. No one is more GRATEFUL for what they have, than me.
“I say free one way tickets back east for any liberal that wants one.”
I say free one way tickets back east for ALL liberals whether they want one or not.
I second THAT motion!
perhaps, perhaps, due to the horrible ghastly and 50 tonne weight of the addictiveness of meth, a previously totally untried but researched method to free these unfortunates from the grip of meth is needed.
the Q I pose time and again which has morphed into rhetorical, is why, why, WHY does ANYBODY try that goddamn stuff even once, KNOWING how addictive it is?
Our homeless should be given jobs where they help refugees move into their taxpayer funded homes.
What’s that saying? Insanity is repeating the same thing over and….
The Downtown Eastside (DES)is a petting zoo for high minded SJWarriors who really, really don’t want to see it improve. Witness several businesses who tried to establish themselves in the DES and provide opportunities for some of the reasonably functional citizens there.
They were immediately attacked for bringing ‘gentrification’ to the area. Restaurant patrons who believed they were spending their dollars in supporting the formerly unemployed were verbally harassed, with the ‘down and outers’ – many of whom were simply supportive leftists with their own homes and incomes – would stare through the windows at them as they ate.
Meanwhile, BC (and federal) taxpayers) continue to pour literally billions of dollars into this cesspool, with no improvement whatsoever. One can walk down even Granville St. and see ‘sandwich boards’ (aptly named) declaring the many facilities available for free breakfast, lunch, dinner and a place to lay your head.
SJWarriors don’t want residents of the area to hit rock bottom – they’d prefer to maintain them at a level just above death, though a few deaths are good for business too as they are useful in arguing that the DES is underfunded and neglected. It’s been thus for at least the last 50 years and I don’t see it changing unless and until the ‘kindness and generosity’ that sustains it is removed.
Some tough love is definitely required.
You can say the same about cigarettes, alcohol, pot, heroin, oxy, etc.
Is the substance addictive, or the individual?
Some people have no taste for pot, but can’t stop at one drink, and the opposite for pot.
true. but the things you list are I suppose, not highly addictive to the majority of those who imbibe.
not so meth. what are the precise numbers? search me. BUT on a graph showing the proportion who wind up addicted to meth compared to booze, pot, whatever. its gotta be off the scale.
thus the Q. why try it? to quote Mr Spock, ‘it’s illogical’. well, my contention is man is NOT the ‘most intelligent species’. that’s why. he fashions the most tools, yes, leverages his strengths via technology. BUT the *applications* leave a lot to be desired.
Let’s analyse this.
CBC sez:
….they were offered bus tickets to Vancouver.
In fact the young man said:
“I asked for a ticket…..
“If I could have stayed and got funded at the Lighthouse, I would have stayed.”
So if he got funded he would go on being useless for the next period. Instead he says that he will get a job in Vancouver.
Really?
The other young man has a medical condition, how is it that whatever agency looks after that is not doing its job. What the hell do they get paid for?
There is no sympathy here for the two, they got where they are all by themselves. They will have to work really, really hard to get out of where they are.
Help would be welcome if they are serious about getting a job or go to school to learn something useful.
Other than that they have to do it on their own. Nobody but nobody can make them do it.
That’s the way it is.
Dependency is the progressive way,be it drug or economic.For many Canadians, dependency
is the free ticket, while for their benefactors,bestowing benefits,especially taxpayer funded is their drug.
Again, I suspect their is more to the story, as a bus ticket is often a vehicle in a
fraudulent scheme, where bus tickets or vouchers can be turned into money or morphine.
“But the Q is, why try it?” Because so many put themselves first, or only.
Because the stats are for other people. Because I’ve heard it will make me feel good. Because I can quit any time I want. Because I’m not like those losers without my willpower. Because I’m the only one that matters. Because the drugs I’m taking now doesn’t give me that elusive euphoria any more. Because there’s no consequences for me because I live in the now. Because I only live once so I’m gonna try everything once. Because I have no hope when I’m off drugs. Because I don’t want to work. Because the bar is too high for me to get into work/school (out-of-character note: “bar is too high” can mean “they expect me to show up and try, and I don’t want to do that”).
The solution is to close more army bases and give these homes to the homeless and put the army guys into hotels or tents in Syrian and put the patrons of the hotels on buses and airplanes back home where they came from.
Taranna and Hongcouver should be paying the one-way bus fares to bolster their Victim Industry’s.
Unfortunately they already hold a monopoly and oversupply on downtrodden Liberal voters so the rest is up to us.
Why pay for their tickets?
Simply insist all welfare recipients work for their handout.
They will leave on their own.