Tragedy at a home daycare in Vaughan, ON

[Sandbox Sally]

I don't even care if this post gets me banned from here. I am sick and tired of the narrow minded judgemental views of some of the posters here. People say outrageously hateful things here against those who live in poverty, and others sit back, nodding their heads and clucking their tongues in agreement. It's a little bit gross.

I pay taxes so that I can live in a country that has excellent social programs, including universal health care. If you lived in the USA, you would have people looking down their noses at you for having government subsidized health care. Don't you get it? Nobody wins when we turn against one another. I don't get angry or bitter when people use the excellent safeguards our society in Canada provides to us, nor am I suspect of every person who uses them. If you're on welfare, you shouldn't have a cell phone? Why not? How dare poor people have communication privilege, right? I don't have a land line - I have only a cell phone, and it is cheaper than my land line was.

This whole conversation started by a child dying in a daycare, possibly due to overcrowding issues, because some parents simply can NOT afford good daycare. But hey, that turned into a hateful conversation where people on this forum said that's THEIR problem for choosing the wrong partner, or having a child alone, or whatever other circumstances that they've found themselves in where they can't afford things other people take for granted. If you look at things through THOSE glasses, it's also your husband's problem that he works out of town, after all, shouldn't he just quit his job and go back to school?Or wait, shouldn't you all just suck it up, because you should have thought of that before you had kids? Really...think about what you're saying.

I am sorry that you are bitter. If you have a home daycare, you should probably get a phone. I promise that this woman isn't taking your husband's money. He would be taxed just the same whether she needed assistance or not.

You were not just commenting on what she said, you were commenting on her phone, her smoking and her parenting. I find it a little suspect that you know all you need to know from someone by watching them for a few minutes. I also have a hard time seeing you as a reliable narrator, since you've already shown that you fabricate stories to back up your opinion.

My problem is your obvious prejudice against the poor. I doubt that your local paper said that 80 percent of all welfare recipients are defrauding the government. I doubt that very highly. You are pulling facts out of thin air. If you don't want to be called out on it, don't post fabrications as fact. You used a fake statistic to back up your prejudiced views. That's not ok. I am sorry if people on this site think that people on public assistance are lower than them, but I tend to judge people for their bad behaviour, rather than their socioeconomic status.