1894 and the ALCPTs strike again

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funny thought i had while smoking (outside because the liberals use government to get rid of something that pissed them off)

we have all seen those "i love my country but fear my government" stickers, usually on the cars with "impeach bush" and other such lovely liberal stickers

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I found decent health insurance for $12 a month for non smokers, and like $20 for smokers (under the age of 45). and i'll shit a brick if most people cant afford that. i knew a homeless girl who made more than that every day bumming.

then lets not forget 99% of full time jobs offer some sort of coverage.

so really that leave only a very small percentage who really cant afford it.

this is what gets me...and dont take this the wrong way. you said Here it's free. Now, if you need dialysis it's free.. but what you need to understand is its NOT free, its not like its being magically treated in a burst of fairy dust (though that would be cool) someone is paying for it. people who have worked hard their whole lives, devoted themselves to making a great living for themselves and their families, so they can send their kids to ivy league school, and afford the best of everything. and its their by right. they worked hard and Made success.

those people are paying for it. they are paying for it sometimes at the cost of being able to give their families everything they worked so hard to be able to give them. they are paying for it at the cost of their lives, because they devoted their lives to getting where they are, and now they are being punished for doing well.

its not free, and nothing is, and i think its important that we remember that, so we can look and see exactly where it is coming from.

of course i dont want to see people suffer, of course its scary to thing that i could fall and break my leg and be fucked (well not really you just go to the hospital they fix it up then you pay the bill in installments) but you get the idea.

but more scary is the idea that i could work so hard for something my whole life, work to build something with every part of myself, only to wake up one day and realize that everything ive built is being siphoned off and given to people who had nothing to do with my hard work, nothing to do with my success. wake up to realize that they think i owe them what i built with my life.

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I know. You're right, I shouldn't say it's free because its not. To me, i'd rather take part in a portion of my taxes going to pay for everyone getting some sort of health care then
worry about the provider denying me services because of my age, current health or trying to fuck me over if I ever got cancer and start becoming seriously ill to the point of being unable to work. There are so many horror stories of people whose providers suddenly start touting the "We don't cover that..." portion of the small print.

And yes, I agree-its the one flaw with the Welfare system here in Canada I whole heartedly disagree with. While I believe in helping people when they're down on their luck (my mom always taught me we don't turn our backs on others in need) but I get disgusted at assholes who'd rather milk off the system than do anything with their lives. I couldn't imagine living in poverty for the duration of my life and being a drunk and wallowing in my own self-pitying filth. No, I couldn't look at my kids knowing full well I could hold down a job and not doing it. IF jobs were at a premium i'd feel bad for these people, but there is so much work here right now it's sick. Or head out west to Calgary to work in the new Oil boom, where there's so much money to be made and so many jobs that its impossible not to be hired. The housing is the issue-its sick expensive where there are so many full time working people who are homeless living in warehouse conditions. Which brings me to my one appreciation of the government.. rent controls.

We have em here (I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba) and in Alberta they don't like those ideas. So, if you say rent an apartment in Winnipeg and you pay say.. 560 bux for a 2 bedroom like myself. And in one year the agencies can apply for an increase of 2% while the tenant can argue it if there's no validation in the cost (ie. Nothing has been done to the place to validate the increase). But.. in Alberta say you lease the place for a year at 560.. then in the next year the place is in high demand and you want to renew your lease then-someone else can come along and say I will pay 900 for the same place. The agency can come back and say, meet or beat their price or you're out. And.. hence the rent rates are sick and the housing costs are through the roof. A new house goes for 750'000, while a new home (same size, lot size, etc.) here goes for 180-210'000. I'm all for competition but when people can't even make enough money to pay for a place to live then something is wrong. Seriously.
And i'm not talking minimum wage, here it's 8.00/hr which is almost enough to live okay on in a 1 bedroom apartment with no kids. I make 11.50 an hour and I get by, with my daughter and paying child support for my son. But the average wage in Calgary is in the range of 17.00-20.00 hr and that's not enough to live in a bachelor apartment most of the time. Sometimes it helps if the gov't steps in an says take a step back, you're raping these people financially.