Quote Originally Posted by katherine mowat View Post
Amen!!!!! Having to have been on disability for almost 8 years due to trying to manage a chronic pain among other things, I often get, why did you go back to work? The question is Why Not. The amount of abuse of social assistance abuse in all of its finger shows up on everyone of our pay checks. If people were made to work for what they get, then they would get themselves a job, instead of scrubing toliets at a local mall, or picking trash in a local park, as people in the staes have to do. Unfortunally the mentality know is, If I get fired I can always live on welfare. The same applies to families that abuse assistance for childcare. If they can not afford childcare, why not stay home with your children, and watch your neighbors children instead.
As someone who has needed and used assistance for a legitimate reason, I would think that you would be a little bit more understanding about this issue. There are people who abuse it, absolutely, but what would you have done if you could not have gotten disability when you needed it? And when you say, if you can't afford childcare you should stay home and watch other kids...I really have to disagree strongly here because people who go into childcare just because they can't afford daycare and not because they have the patience, etc that is required for the job, are those that you hear about in the news who have shaken a child to death or let a child drown, etc. This is in no way good for our society or for the children who will be our future. Quebec recognized that children who have a good start to life do much better in school...that is why they started the subsidized care for all (although there are still issues with not enough spaces). I think we have to always be thinking about the children and the good of our society in general when we talk about these issues. Is it better for the kids (who have no choice) to say, well their parents shouldn't have had them if they couldn't afford them, and then leave them with no health care, welfare, food banks, daycare....to live in squalid conditions and most likely grow up angry and under educated to turn to crime? I fail to see how this benefits society.