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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] Well, maybe it's that way in Toronto- never having been there, I have no experience with your city. Maybe garbagemen have it easy there- down here that job seems to shorten lifespans (due to fumes and exposure to god knows what). And no, it's not easy to just chuck it and find something else to do. Speaking for things down my way, there are millions of people hunting for any employment possible- and many have gotten the idea to return to school to improve their chances at scoring a good paying job, not realising that hundreds of thousands of college graduates are already out there looking for anything- and [i]they[/i] have experience! And of course, the people making student loans have not become any less predatory- that new two year degre is going to cost upwards of 40K on average. That's one big student loan payment on top of everything else- and that's assuming you find a job! Then add in having a family to support...I see no wrong in society helping those people. they are neither lazy nor looking for a handout- asking for help for your family's sake, at the cost of pride, is itself a kind of nobility. Of course there are abusers of the system, but they are the extreme rarity, not the norm- possibly that's why the media fixates on them. Youd never know it from television, but things down here in the states are still very dire for many families- while campaign contributors can rest assured their excesses are insured at taxpayer expense- the same taxpayers big business fires and outsources the job overseas of. If Bank Of america, Citigroup and dozens of other billion dollar companies can get free money from the government, why not real people trying to survive? [i]Those[/i] are the people villified as lazy and somehow a drain on society- that [i]those[/i] people need to suck it up and "do what it takes" to survive. [i]Fuck[/i] the people that say that shit- all the armchair cable pundits and congressional milionaires can go to hell. As to your own experiences, did you ever look into public assistance when times were tough for you? It could be that there were recources available to you that you did not take advantage of. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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