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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Wow.
I take it you live in a nice house and have a swanky job downtown in a oil or oil-related industry then? I'm not talking about people in oil specifically, I'm talking about all affluent people in Calgary, and they're a dime a dozen.
$375 to you is obviously peanuts. What about someone who doesn't have anything and can't make more than minimum wage? What if they have children to support? What if they need medication (and by all accounts, the homeless are plauged with this problem)?
It is so...SO easy to say what you just said. Why don't you live on the street and suddenly change your life around in the blink of an eye?
My god, it's people with your opinion that are exactly the problem as to why there is so much angst against them.
Let me guess - you would have more compassion for the homeless if it was a starving mother in sub-saharan Africa, right? Poverty is poverty, and it must be addressed. Public, private, mixed solutions - doesn't matter. These people need a helping hand, not a kick while they're down.
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WTF are you talking about? I didn't say it was peanuts, I said it could be earned by anybody in Calgary in one week. This is based on crappy jobs available in the industrial areas for $14/hour minimum - most will hire any warm body for $17/hour not to mention Labour Ready and other placement groups that can't even come close meeting the demand for labourers that pay $12/hour
cash at the end of each day.
And you're saying "what if they have children to support?" Hmmm, maybe that's why they should get a job ... or is it your feeling that they make more by huddling in a shelter and then rolling out a sleeping bag in a doorway at the end of the day? Is that a better way to support their kids than working? News to me.
A helping hand is a job, not a quarter. You know, teach a man to fish...