Toronto food bank says social assistance reform could lead to more struggling clients – October 31, 2018

I had 2 meals today, I have electricity, a place to live, heating, public and private transportation at my doorstep, there are no bombs flying over my head every night, currently, I’m not in fear of my life, my taxes are paid and I’m very charitable with both my time and my money. I’m sympathetic with the poor people of Toronto, but I’ve traveled to a few poor countries in my life and just being honest the mere fact that my city has great people that opened a food bank is a great thing.

Toronto food bank says social assistance reform could lead to more struggling clients – CBC

A lot of people have never actually tried to help the poor before, sometimes I have to remind conservatives how Canada and many parts of the world got to the point where poor people feel entitled to the financial assistance of others. Consolidation is why most Canadians opted for more taxes over allowing charities and the private sector to deal with the poor. Welfare programs, for the most part, have been able to expand because prior to the expansion of welfare private charities required that the poor people they were helping did something to better themselves. Something like finding a job, get married before having more children, save money, don’t get it debt, don’t live beyond your means, be a good person with morals and respect for others.

Prior to the welfare state and you can even see this in poor countries now, a criminal was a criminal and that was that. Prior to welfare in a time where morals were based on Judeo-Christian beliefs, there was no middle ground you were either a good person in this society or a bad person. If you were a good or bad person by societal standards you got what was coming to you. However, it must be said that no system is perfect and well, there were progressive people that tried to right the wrongs. The problem with these people is that they used the government to right the wrongs instead of using non-profits, charities or their private businesses and this is what’s led to more poverty.

Government people arent’ good with solving economic problems, the government can assist with social problems but the Government shouldn’t interfere with economic problems by means of using a redistribution income scheme to take from the haves and give to the have-nots. Because being a have-not is subjective, enough for me might be not enough for you. If you and I have two different understandings of what morality is, we both might feel like it’s our right in certain situations to take more than we probably should.

So the truth is when the Toronto food bank says social assistance reform could lead to more struggling clients they’re right. but let’s not forget that Social Assistance isn’t a right, neither is universal basic income, neither is corporate welfare, neither is a tiered taxation system. Minimum wages is not something a country with poor people should have, if my Province, my city or my country has poor people, why would a government create a minimum wage? If there are people willing to volunteer for free to work at a food bank? Why would the government force a company that pays taxes to pay people an artificial wage created by the government to assure that a businesses profits are minimized? Wouldn’t the smarter move be to have no minimum wages so more charities or even businesses could find more creative ways to make sure that everybody in Ontario and Canada, in general, can eat?

In Ontario, in Canada, we have some stupid problems, that were easily preventable. As long as there’s a minimum wage there’s an excuse to be on welfare, that’s a fact. Being that Ontario has a minimum wage it’s actually impossible to know what the poverty line is, the government created a frivolous law that only a country without any poverty would impose on people and then when food banks say that times are going to get tougher for them, they’re absolutely right.

The problem of poverty in Canada starts with government policies and income redistribution. There should only be one tax in my opinion and that’s a tariff tax, there should be only one type of trade deal with other countries and that’s a bilateral trade deal. In particular, instances, where a multilateral trade deal is in place, part of the contract, should always stipulate that if one party is in violation of this specific trade deal the contract from Canada’s perspective is null and void.

These changes would change the world for the better as people would be held responsible for their own actions, which of course would remove this myth in civilized society called racism. I often laugh at people who take a nativist stance on issues, because once you live amongst your own people long enough you’ll see how silly that way of think really is. It’s only in times of incivility where nativism makes sense and incivility comes from protectionism, from socialism, from Marxism from collectivism. When there’s a government or a central planner micro-managing and redefining what poverty is and why poverty should get special privileges, well in time every person, every charity or corporate entity will find a way to find itself into that welfare class.

It’s time humanity wake up, in Canada, we have the best country in the world and these collectivists are trying to destroy it. I keep saying this if Canada doesn’t wake up soon when the crash or the economic collapse does happen it’s going to be impossible to dig ourselves out of it because the truth is a lot of people don’t know where the root cause of all this poverty comes from. The problem is the government trying to pick economic winners and losers if there’s an economic collapse and the people still view the world in a way that says the government knows best, society as a whole is going to have some serious problems to deal with.

To get rid of the social assistance problem in Ontario get rid of the minimum wage, only working people should qualify for social assistance. Instead of a minimum wage, create a market wage for particular jobs, if a company is paying below the market wage, that company should be audited by the CRA(Canadians Revenue Agency) and also people should be able to share their working experiences with their employers on the net. When there’s no minimum wage then we can find out what the poverty line is, at which time we can determine if a person qualifies for welfare or a tax break.

Now I hear some of you saying to yourselves, yes, but what abut people who get paid in cash? My answer? Is that it happens now and a lot of those people are on welfare, some people have no morals, there’s little to nothing we can do about it, I’m a believer in bartering, so I’d rather have a welfare system based on helping people who work than having a welfare system based on people who don’t work, don’t want to work, have no plans to work and are entitled to the working classes labor. More resources in my opinion should be put to the people who contribute to the Ontario community.

People have a right not to work and I have a right not to have my tax dollars sent to those people. No minimum wages means everybody’s working, it also means that workers or trade unions aren’t just government lobbyist groups. Unions in the private sector are supposed to represent quality labor because unions are the main culprits in raising the minimum wages in Ontario they, in essence, have no value to the province, instead they’re merely a special interest group that wants to make sure that competition in Ontario stays at a minimum being that a persons ability to do the same job for less disappears, which means certain jobs disappear, which equates to more incentives to grow welfare.

In a civilized society a union symbol is supposed to symbolize quality work, now personally I’d rather pay for quality work than some random person showing up to do a job. But in this modern era, Unions have become lazy and heavily dependent on the federal and provincial governments to change laws that benefit them only. This needs to change, there needs to be more options for everyone, only then will we see more real prosperity coming back to our great province and our great nation, we all should be embarrassed that prosperity in Canada now revolves around the value of your house.

Interesting times ahead.