ok. So people that abuse the system are leeches??? I hope that's what you're saying. And I disagree - I think refugees aren't parasite - even before they stand on their own two feet and become productive members of society. They're refugees!!!!!!!! NOT PARASITES!!!
Do you know what the term parasite even means? I'm not making value judgments. I'm just saying a host can only survive so many hangers on before dying. Apparently value judgments are passe. So what if you arrived here in 1971 from Saigon, never bothered to learn English, won't get a job. Hey, you and your family were bought a nice big house courtesy of the Canadian taxpayer and they regularly send out paid employees speaking your language to fill out all your forms for you and do all your banking for you. All you need to do is figure out what to spend your money on. Mag wheels for the car, beer for regular beer bashes.... Let's see, it's now 2006. You've cadged for what, 35 years? But hey, why stop taking the free money, free housing, free services while others have to work all day and pay their own way? Noone ever told you the free ride will end cause it never will. In fact, when your grandkids are born the happy social worker will inform you that you are now entitled to more money and makes sure the little one is all signed up for all the freebies.
Actually we're (or at least I am) taking offense to your notion that all welfare users, EI users, and refugees are 'parasitic', when in fact it is a small minority.
You can take offense to what you like. If you're taking cheques off people in exchange for, well, nothing then uh, yeah, you're a parasite.
When you emigrated to the United States, did you give the government any backpay for all the public infrastructure you used? Did you help pay for the roads? Or did you just parasitically walk on them?
I paid the government to come here, and I've paid taxes since day one. Collected NO welfare, collected NO handouts. Thanks for trying. But, no... And I've never gone down to the "Canadian Cultural Center" in my brand new Honda that the government bought me, and after an animated game of chess and having stabbed another guy - stabbed the two cops that came in to break it up, and decried racism for having been arrested. (NOTE: if I tried that here, I would be deported on the spot.) Nor would I request a mutilating operation for my daughter against the laws here.
Oh you mean the Canadian government? Dude, I paid taxes to that country while I lived there, make no mistake. Never collected welfare or EI either. I owe them nothing. They tried to collect GST on my earnings in the United States, contrary to law. They can pi** up a rope.
My grandmother was never a parasite - and neither was the majority of people she helped - and continues to help today.
Absolutely. Some are parasites in a bad way, some in a good way. The essential thing about your grandmother was that she fell into the net through no fault of her own and got out of it as fast as possible. But while she was in it, yeah, she was taking and not putting anything in.
bahahahaha. Now you're just being a presumptuous prick. *alliterates* You may as well argue that newborns are parasites and the grass on your lawn is too. Maybe you need to grow up a little faster than I do.
Of course newborns are parasites, but they eventually go out on their own. Many welfare recipients don't. Canada is proud of the fact that you can be born on welfare and live your entire life on welfare and die on welfare without contributing dick all to society. We ALL need help time to time, we all need assistance and to leech off others. But if you do it all the time, then you're a drain on society. We are born parasites, we parasitize here and there during our lives. But lying around turning down jobs cause they cause you to have to wake up before noon is not a good thing.
I will enjoy my GST tax cut also. If you can call it enjoyment. I only care because you're wrong, not because you're ignorant and insulting.
I'm not wrong. Your grandmother and her four kids did nothing for their money while collecting welfare. Granted, her actions afterward were sterling. I'm not critiquing her character. Never was. K?
They did nothing???? Are you shitting me???? My Nana???? Nobody builds a young woman a house for free because she does nothing in her community. She didn't contribute to the economy but I would never say that meant she was doing nothing of value, merit, or in demand. You're very wrong, you know it, and you're too stubborn to admit it. I've no idea why. Maybe you really do have no dick. lol. damn that was good one. hahahahaha. sorry. that was bellow the belt. >< Seriously, if you actually going around thinking people are parasites, social services are parasitic, immigration policies are parasitic, then I don't think you should even be in favour of government in the first place. We'd all be leeches. *beats him with a logic stick*