XPost: ont.general, ont.politics
From: edrnouser@
Nobody wrote:
> PV wrote:
>
>> Canuck57 wrote:
>>> On 26/03/2010 8:21 PM, The Henchman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>>> EI, history. Welfare only for those really at the bottom. Gone
>>> will be the days of owning cars homes and collecting EI and
>>> welfare. Reserve social assistance to those that really need it
>>> and lazy, drugs, flop house mamas don't qualify.
>>>
>>
>> Your ignorance is simply stunning by it's breadth and width.
>>
>> Laid off last July and looking for work for six months, EI kept my
>> family fed and kept the roof over our heads. Stuff your
>> generalizations and talk about something you really know about.
>>
>> Twenty four years of paying into EI and it kept us off the welfare
>> rolls.
>
> The point is, they pay a pittance and, if you make too much in the
> year, you have to pay it back. What kind of 'insurance' does that?
>
> There are, I believe, about 50 or so different 'zones' for EI. I
> understand that if you live in Alberta, for example, you have to work
> the most time before collecting and get the least benefit. If you
> are a Newfie fisherman, it is WAY different. What kind of bullshit
> is that?
I was referring to Canucks57's generalization that EI was used by people
living high on the hog while abusing EI, which is a load of bullshit in
itself.
Yes it pays a pittance, enough to keep body and soul together while looking
for work, but better then nothing. As for the zone variations, a government
solution but I cannot accept Iggys 300 hrs across the board to qualify.
--
PV
Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.
H.L. Mencken
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