XPost: ont.general, ont.politics
From: not@home.anymore
Canuck57 wrote:
> On 27/03/2010 6:34 PM, 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?
>
> Federal vote buying. Think, many a east coasters were to list
> their most predominant profession honestly, it would be EI
> Recipient.
>
> EI is nothing more than an employment tax. For decades skimed by
> the governemnt and now they are raising it's rates. People should
> be allowed to opt out of this tax grab. Allow me to put it into a
> LIRA/RRSP and be ineligible for EI there after.
That's what I did with money that would have gone to CPP while I
worked overseas. I made a lot more investing it than CPP will ever
pay me. Mind you, when I do collect CPP, my monthly government
payment likely won't cover the cost of a case of beer.
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