XPost: ont.general, ont.politics   
      
   On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 02:14:29 GMT, "PV"    
   wrote:   
      
   >Nobody wrote:   
   >> PV wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Canuck57 wrote:   
   >>>> On 26/03/2010 8:21 PM, The Henchman wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
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   >>>   
   >>>> 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.   
      
   Actually this is very true and I should know, I saw it all the time   
   when I lived in B.C. all those years ago. We used to go skiing at Red   
   Mountain just outside of Trail, B.C. - home of Nancy Greene. We always   
   and I do mean always used to get the guys that worked way up north on   
   the rigs for six months of the year and then they would come down,   
   apply for UIC it was called then, and ski for the whole winter and do   
   nothing else. We used to laugh because they used to ski in shorts but   
   everyone knew who they were and what they did. That is what happens in   
   small towns so yes, there was abuse and there probably still is - my   
   understanding is that a teacher can apply for EI when they are off in   
   the summer (I know of two teachers that tell me when they apply). The   
   problem is - neither of them go looking for work while they are off   
   which is what I always thought they were supposed to do but then how   
   do you leave another job to go back to teaching in september???   
   >   
   >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.   
      
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