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Working for me is a real love/hate relationship. I love the work I do, I hate the work I do. Can’t live with it, can’t live without it… Will someone please tell me how to get on the gravy train of welfare/disability paycheques? Getting up at 5:15am every morning sucks! —Grateful for Friday
This article appears in Jun 23-29, 2011.
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Come on, OB. You’re better than that, aren’t you? Work hard so you can play hard.
You know what sucks worse, GfF? Having a disability that prevents you from working or ever fulfilling your dreams. That sucks way worse. I know many disabled people who would give anything for the opportunity to be able to do work they love and fulfill a few life ambitions. Subsisting your way on a budget that allows no choices on welfare/disability is not one of them. You should be grateful for having the options you do. Wishing otherwise is insulting to those who actually are disabled.
Welfare is not a gravy train – it may pay your rent, maybe one utility but you can forget about eating unless you have 3.4 squawking, snotnosed brats in tow. For the mother who keeps popping ’em out, welfare IS a gravy train and I fucking resent paying tax money so those bitches can sit on their flabby, McDonald-constructed asses and tip back a beer.
I worked 40 years, OP, and there won’t be a gravy train coming along any time soon. In fact, I’ve started buying cat food for my retirement.
You can get gravy flavoured cat food I think.
“Will someone please tell me how to get on the gravy train of welfare/disability paycheques?”
Quit your job and suffer a debilitating injury.
get an addiction, affliction, or have a conniption fit….have a bunch o’ kids and there you have it….toot, toot…
Only thing that sucks more than working.. is not working.
I know it’s fun to talk like an internet tuffguy/gal and shit all over the lazyasses on EI or Disability. I mean, fuck, right? You probably know of someone milking the system. Gives you the smarts to spout off.
Right?
Fuck you, OP.
I hope you never have to live with a disability or other condition, mental or physical or social that keeps you from holding down a full time job.
Because then YOU will get to read other arsenozzles spout off about how easy YOU have it.
Wake up at 5:15am and be grateful. I would love to trade my disabled body for your able one, for a short vacation from the realities of my life, but that’s not how it works.
I’ve got a very good friend who will trade places with you OB.
He’d love to be able to get up, by himself.
If you hate your job so bad….quit, I did.
Elsewise stop complaining and suck it up.
OP, just ask anyone in Spryfield.
if female, get knocked, have 10 kids by different fathers, or if male, find said female that has 10 kids by different fathers.
Fuck, LS, you beat me to it.
OB…you wanna milk the system, wanting to be disabled sure as fuck ain’t the thing to wish for.
I fractured my L1 about 18 years ago, I got crushed & along with that injury I broke several ribs, a fibia & a couple of bones in my left foot.
THe back injury included a bunch of soft tissue damage & I lost the use & all feeling in my legs…I actually had no feeling from about my belly button down.
It was a scary time. for almost a month I wasn’t able to roll over in bed. No one would(or maybe could) tell me if I would recover, or how badly damaged I was. I can still remember waking up to sharp, tears in your eyes, pain from my broken foot one morning & I have never forgotten what being laid up like that was like.
I wouldn’t wish it on someone I hated.
You should seriously not wish for something like that !
You just may someday get what you’ve wished for…& then you’re going to be really sorry.
There’s a great spot in front of Tim Horton’s on SGR to shake your cup if you’re looking for a career alternative. However, I believe it’s unionized. So there is a waiting list. Get your application in because school is getting out soon.
Try and run for just about any political party that stands a chance of winning in the area you would be running – get elected – then GRAVY TRAIN! However, one has to wait for a next election etc.
More sorry about your injuries but you did it wrong. What one has to do is claim PTS. No physical injuries andmilk the system. It’s the new whiplash.
OP – pretend to take an interest in sebastian and he’ll be so desperate to fuck you that he’ll hand over any money he has to you and buy you shit. Just keep telling him that your mouth is dry and that you’re saving the first time for something special. Then once you’ve milked him for whatever tell him you met the woman of your dreams and don’t want to go to Hell.
Bro TIM, I healed ….but the PTS ,made me L O L !
That’s just not for me, but I did find that comment pretty funny ~:)
But
I’ve got a problem, according to my family & most of those I work with, I’ve got work-a-holic syndrome.
Sure I’m really fortunate in that I get to pick & choose what i’m going to do , for the most part. But just sitting around, drives me nuts.
At first my present partner was a bit disconcerted on how I would come home from a busy day, & how we’d sit down in the evening to watch a movie, have a couple of drinks & I would have a note pad with me, so I could do quotes up, or equipment lists or figure out what I would need to do an upcoming project, while we watched a show.
But she understands me a bit better now, stuff just pops into my head as the info from earlier in the day rolls around & reminds me of stuff I may have forgotten, or would be useful & didn’t make a note of. Happens when I’m sleeping all the time as well, & I wake up & either go make a note of the idea, or just go to my shop & put a piece of gear by the door, or a note to remind me to bring such & such with me when I leave, or contact someone on their availability or of equipment etc.
Throw your name in the hat for Mayor of Halifax, seems to be a vacancy coming up soon?
what do you guys think of the cornwallis name change? inquiring mind needs to know^^
P.C. bollocks at it’s worst. I don’t deny that the colonial period was pretty nasty and brutish, but I don’t buy that “Dances with Wolves/We were not the savages” horse puckey either. I suppose changing the school name was an inevitable; God forbid our little angels deal weed, get knocked up and commit swarmings under the malevolent name of genocidal Dead White Male. But anybody wants to pull down the statue in the park, he’d best show up in an M1A1 Abrams tank. Not a rusted out Bronco with a back seat full of tax free smokes.
thanks commander, there is an article by timmy you can comment on as well
lol – Ivan, yep…another srike from the apologist flock.
I wonder what institute of higher learning, produced these social constructivist philosophers…
http://www.joe-ks.com/MultiMedia/RedneckPa…
“It’s my estimation that… every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sumbitch or another.” – Malcolm Reynolds
Your not Mik maq Ivan. Big difference there. Mikmaqs have the right to feel about Cornwallis as Jews do towards Hitler. Cornwallis put out a bounty on these people, men, women and children rewarded by a presentation of a scalp. We put a bounty on coyotes today, sort of gives you an idea of what his mindset was.
I understand there was a war with the French that Cornwallis was engaged in and the Mik maq sided with the French. In those days, what Cornwallis did might not have seemed so bad as the general attitude of the Europeans is that the indigeonous peoples were lesser peoples.
But these are not those days and that attitude has hopefully been erased. Honouring the man is an insult to the Mik maq, it has to be.
Who’s next? How about Christopher Colombus? This guy lands in the New World thinks it’s the Far East, exploits and enslaves the locals, and then is enshrined as the discoverer of America. Only to find out that the Vikings beat him by 500 years.
“Show me a hero, and I’ll prove he’s a bum” – Lt. Col Gregory “Pappy” Boyington, Marine, fighter ace & Medal of Honor recipient.
You’re correct Warthog. I’m not. I view this issue though my white, European perspective. I can understand the feeling; I get a similar one when I see slack-jawed dullards wearing T-shirts that feature a power hungry, murderous demagogue who clung to a genocidal and discredited ideology right up to the point that a Bolivian soldier put a bullet in him. What are ya gonna do?
Maybe they’ll rename it Donald Marshall High?
Little known fact: St. Brendan beat the Vikings by about 500 years in the quest to cross the pond.
FYI, Ivan Padres IV Cantos – The references from We Were Not The Savages are from public records of The English and Cornwallis. When Daniel Paul wrote the book he went right to the public archives that are available. He did not pull the facts out of the air or make them up as he went along. What he wrote and produced is what The English and Cornwallis were making known at the time.
You can disagree with the horse pucky all you want but debating against fact is like sebastian trying to get a date with Gene Simmons.
And trodoon is 100% correct. It’s easy to look at this through the rose coloured glasses but you belong to a group that has never been marginalized before. It’s not to talk shit but it’s easy to ignore things and balk when you’ve never been part of a minority group. Even Israel’s government attempted to distance itself from Baruch Goldstein, his tomb and followers.
Whatever. All I know is such empathy as I had for natives was murdered at Oka along with Cpl. Marcel Lemay of the Q.P.P. And the thugs at Caledonia have raped it’s corpse and shit on it’s grave. So, I’m not talking shit about aboriginals – but I’m done apologizing.
Oka could have been prevented if some non-Native officials weren’t as greedy and fascist as they were. Cops were shooting at unarmed women and the military looked pretty pansy when the Warrior Society members refused to back down.
The cops started the shooting and used a swat team to make the Mohawks surrender and it failed. It’s not the Mohawks’ fault the cop was killed. It seems like when minorities or coloured people simply defend themselves they become the bad people. And lets not forget Lemay was killed by “friendly fire.”
I like how you defend the aggressors and wonder why I dislike the military and police. QPP started a gun battle, lost and tried to play victim. That doesn’t work with most educated people.
People who defend themselves agaisnt aggressors have nothing to apologize for. Same is said for Palestinians and Canada’s First Nations people. After all, nobody invited Europeans here – or to Palestine 🙂
Ivan said:
“when I see slack-jawed dullards wearing T-shirts that feature a power hungry, murderous demagogue who clung to a genocidal and discredited ideology right up to the point that a Bolivian soldier put a bullet in him.”
WTF? George W. Bush was murdered in Bolivia? Why wasn’t this on CNN?
I’m not gonna fight a rear-guard action for Governor Cornwallis. He’s dead and gone and turned to dust a long time ago.
White folks expanded onto this continent through the “might makes right” ideology which was how things were done back then. Actually, recent history shows it’s still the way things are done.
Maybe it’s time to give back a little of what was stolen, even if only it’s some Mi’kmaq dignity.
Change the name of the school.
i’m sorry i brought it up. please go comment on timmy’s article
tsk tsk. Whiskey Tango Golf, paingirl. 😛
It wasn’t on CNN because you can’t trust corporate main-stream media. >; )Jesse Ventura has all the details coming up in season 2.
Don’t apologize PG, I missed throwing my two cents worth on this topic on the CH site because they close their stories for comment so fast.
some interesting comments here http://www.thecoast.ca/RealityBites/archiv…
It’s otay Paingirl. I recognize my prejudices for what they are; failures of character to be overcome. Some I have. Some are a constant struggle. And some will be with me until the day I die.
OC, I wouldn’t just go throwing around the word ‘fact’ willy-nilly…
http://www.lovehorsepower.com/galleries/44…
ya know i *mouse ears* you captain^^i reaped what i sowed
I always figure that if The Euro descendants don’t like living with First Nations then they can go back to where they came from. It’s very simple. The Indians aren’t going anywhere and all attempts at assimilation or genocide failed miserably so Whites now try and play the victim as is usual.
It’s refreshing to know that there are some so-called intelligent people who believe in freedom and democracy but only when its for one group and not for another. I guess that’s why Canada can’t even beat a disorganized group of cave dwellers in Afghanistan. After all it couldn’t beat a moose-hunting group of pipe-offerers for hundreds of years.
I don’t throw anything around willy-nilly. Historians who have followed documentations from the good saint himself have drawn the conclusion that he did indeed make the voyage and return to Ireland to tell about it.
Where in NA did St. Brendan visit, OC?
stories of him fighting sea monsters and being on an island that very few have found…
I don’t buy it.
“Brendan protects Judas from the demons of Hell for one night. 26. They find an island where Paul the Hermit has lived a perfect monastic life for 60 years. He wears nothing but hair and is fed by an otter. 27. They return to the island of Sheep, Jasconius, and the Paradise of Birds. 28. They find the Promised Land of the Saints. No description of the island. Most likely because only those who are holy enough to reach the island have the privilege of knowing what it looks like. 29. They return home, and Brendan dies.”
um… ok. if you say so.
I always get a kick out of some First Nations leader, or just some thug on a barricade telling the T.V. cameras that a)they don’t recognize the laws of Canada or even it’s existence as a nation and, without pausing for breath b)Demand their rights under the Constitution. I guess the Jesuits should have devoted more time to logic and less to sodomy. They must have some awfully bad-ass moose along the St. Lawrence, if you need an assualt rifle and 30 rounds of 7.62 to bring one down.
It’s almost as amusing as the thugs in Afghanistan and Iraq blaming The Taliban and/or Iraqi Rebels for defending themselves and their homeland. Jesuit logic? Would that be the typiccal “white is right by might” logic? If so the FNs would kill them in self-defence too.
The Injuns aren’t going anywhere any time soon so better get used to them defending themselves, their lands and their people against aggressive Canadian bullies who cry victim. It’s like poking a dog, getting bit, and blaming the dog for its response. But I guess in any conflict there has to be a party that is wrong and this time (again) it’s not The Tontos.
zZz: looking a little deeper than wikipedia for your proof, you may find that Brendan’s voyage was incredibly plausible and quite likely. Tim Severin, noted historian, recreated Brendan’s voyage by following detailed documentation, including the construction of the oxhide boat which successfully made the voyage to Newfoundland from Ireland, navigating the same route documented by St Brendan. Severin believes the Brendan voyage was authentic. So do I. You are entitled to believe what you like.
You mean like “defending” that lucrative smuggling trade across the most porous section of the longest incompetently defended border in the world. Or, does that come under the “traditional livelihood” rubric, like casinos, manufacturing tax-free butts and the drug trade. We’ve moved well past the days of smallpox blankets, scalp bounties and pony soldiers. Keep on blaming the White Man; it’ll distract you from the crime, corruption and addiction that your own people are now full-fledged players in. You’ve come a long way baby.
By the way, we aren’t going anyplace anytime soon, either.
Nope, more like CF playing rent-a-cop for the TAPI Pipeline and following Uncle Sam into a fake war to make itself look good.
Crime? All things that your folks introduced to The New World. It’s only a problem when others do it seemingly.
Tax-free butts? Tobacco harvesting was done for thousands of years before any European arrived so that could fall under traditional livelihood. Drug trade that you’re responsible for? Quit bitching.
The White-Blame will continue until Whitey can at least admit to his wrong-doing, screw-ups and acknowledging that his “problems” are his own creation. When you’re responsible for the screw up the honus will remain on you.
If you’re not going anywhere anytime soon then buckle up and enjoy the ride while you’re a guest. As long as you “choose” to be a guest in our home you will obide by our rules and lump it. You can always remove yourself if co-existing with the indigenous is too hard.
You lost. Don’t like it, shoulda fought harder. You don’t get a rematch. We aren’t guests; we’re the natives now and your “rules’ stop at the reserve boundary. We don’t exist here at your sufferance. Although considering the way the gutless government of Dalton Mcguinty handled Caledonia, I may just be wrong.
You violated Sitting Bull’s injunction to take nothing from the washichus. He didn’t just mean looting the dead after Little Bighorn. He meant the whole banana – don’t become dependant on us. Too late now. So yeah, you have your very own crime rings, Native Syndicates, Warrior Societies – whatever the euphemism is. Your kids are the ones dropping out of school to make big money in the unlicensed smokeshops. Your kids are the ones dealing “the white man’s poison” in your own backyard. Like the old book says “A man’s foes shall be they of his own household.”
If we lost why are you paying for my education and degrees, health care, travel, casino dividends, student allowances and dental? Maybe you should have fought smarter 😉
You’re not the natives now. This is still my land more than it is yours and always will be. You exist as any other invasive species actually.
Most whites are gutless when fighting with First Nations. Look at Oka. Y’all had to hide behind the government, police, military, and weapons. Those unarmed women and children were so frightening and scary! Oooooh! Like I said before; the coloured/minorities become the bad guys when they defend themselves and that’s why you play the victims. It’s cute in a way.
We don’t depend on you; never have. We keep the government in business. You lost at Little Big Horn too and that must be an onion in the ointment for you. Did you like the part where the warriors ate his heart and spit chunks back in his face? Again, the people defending themselves beat the aggressors and it spurns.
Crime rings? Now you’re just grasping at straws because you couldn’t wipe us out and we’re still here and you’re paying rent in taxes. Your kids are the ones dropping out of school to panhandle on Spring Garden Road and live at Phoenix House. Your kids are the ones buying our so-called illegal smokes in your own backyard, therefore, making our young braves wealthy.
Until lion has his or her own story teller, the hunters will always be the heroes.
Well I guess it’s time for the Romans to apoligize to the Jews, the Huns to the Romans, the French to the English, the English to the French, the Spanish to Incas (much worse than Cornwallis ever thought of), the Japanese to the Chinese, the Chinese to the Koreans and of course Canada to everybody from present to past. Utter foolishness. Apoligize for that which is in the present or living past. Let the dead bury the dead.
i’m sorry i hi-jacked this thread http://images.goemerchant.net/StoreData/h/…
Yeah, real defenceless at Oka. A paramilitary, racialist, anti-government militia, armed with the sort of military grade weaponry that drives U.S. politicans nuts, engaged in an illegal occupation, murders a police officer in the performance of his duties. (Oh No Ivan, that only happens in the United States. Canada is much more enlightened than that).Real fucking brave that is. They were a regular bunch of Randy Weavers. And the army were a bunch of pussies for NOT pulling a Sand Hill Massacre or a Wounded Knee? C’mon. The OPP killed dudley george at Ipperwash and THEY were lambasted for being a bunch of racist cowboys, even before the 3 year inquiry. Can’t have it both ways. Oh wait, I forgot. This is progressive canada so I guess if you play the victim enough (nice way to project that on us, by the way) you can. And I will say again – we are the natives now and unless those cigarette mills are engaged in developing WMDs – it’s going to stay that way.
“Oh wait, I forgot. This is progressive canada so I guess if you play the victim enough (nice way to project that on us, by the way) you can.”
You’re still doing it.
“murders a police officer in the performance of his duties”
Thank the QPP for the friendly fire.
“Real fucking brave that is.”
Civilians vs. cops and the army? I’d say so too.
“And I will say again – we are the natives now and unless those cigarette mills are engaged in developing WMDs – it’s going to stay that way.”
Hitler even said that if you lie enough people eventually believe it. Look at what you’ve been telling yourself, bro.
Donairious, it was likely Newfoundland from both a geographic account and descriptions of the natives who Brendan and crew encountered when they landed.
Interesting. I’ll have to do some research on it sometime. It wouldn’t surprise me to be honest.
Right – Big Lie. “Cpl. Lemay was a victim of friendly fire.” His body hadn’t even hit the ground before the Mohawks had called a press conference claiming that and further, any suggestion that one of their own heroic, masked, AK-47 toting “warriors” might have done it, was rooted in racism – not fact. And the CBC lapped it right up. The coroner’s inquest was unable to definitively prove or disprove it. And when the siege ended the Mohawk’s arsenal had been spirited away (no pun intended) except for a few token weapons that were field stripped and ritually tossed in a bonfire. The traditional “eradicate finger prints and prevent test firing for bullet comparison” ritual, no doubt .
Every tribe has it’s myths.
And speaking of Adolf, didn’t his policies get a ringing endorsement from that drunken slob David Ahenakew. At least he wasn’t a Holocaust denier. Nope, he seemed to think it was a pretty good thing. And his heartfelt mea culpa “I don’t hate the Jews; I just hate what they do to people” Wow – that could have been written by Mel Gibson it’s so stirring.
Huge lie. Friendly fire did it. Cops sign up for that shit and if they get killed in the line of fire so be it. It’s not like how OPP blatantly murdered the unarmed Dudley George. Lemay was killed by a comrade and if it was provable that any Mohawk did the deed it would be a solved case by now. And since that’s not how it happened there is no case.
David Ahenakew a drunken slob? That’s Drunken Slob who received The Order of Canada, Mr. Ivan! Name calling is so petty and I’m sure you’re better than that, bro. And considering how right-wing you are I’m surprised you don’t support more Hitler-style policies and actions. Oh wait, you already supported genocide so I got you there! 🙂
…And had his Order of Canada stripped from him because his wine fueled “goddamned immigrant” rant ended with him comparing Jews to a disease. Personally, I think the Governor General should have chewed it up and spit it back in his face. So, yeah – drunken slob it is.
One gross blow to freedom of speech is all that was.
Again, Druken-Slob who received an Order of Canada, which you didn’t. And won’t.
I’d chew it up and spit it back in the G.G.’s face >; )
Only if Israel told you to do so. If you didn’t The Palestinians would win back their rightful homeland.
Gotta love how Hamas wants to swap 1 Israeli soldier for, what is it, 750 of their own captured fedayeen. Because in terms of competence and ability that’s pretty much what the exchange rate works out to.
I prefer to admire how Hamas defends its homeland against invaders who cry victim after dropping bombs on civilian homes, cutting electricity, attacking foreigners in international waters and refusing to let Red Cross assist the injured.
Sorta like how Al-Fatah defended it’s homeland on the runway in Munich. And the Kibbutz school in Ma’alot. And Leila Khaled on that El Al 707. And those two Baader Meinhoff “warriors” at Entebbe.. That the kind of defense we talking about?
Yes, the same tactics you advocate if only the invaders use them.
White folks expanded onto this continent through the “might makes right” ideology which was how things were done back then. Actually, recent history shows it’s still the way things are done.
not just white folks that do this.come on retard.it is the way nature intended.all earths creatures behave this way to some degree.especially mammals.,so why should humans behave differently.we are animals so it is ok to behave as such.that is why humans are so successfull.
you would think a natives who are so intuned to nature would understand its basic laws.we have no guilt,no culture does,it is the way it is,and meant to be, from the creatures we evolved from to the ends of time,meaning the creatures that evolved from us.look at the big pisture not just your own selfish individuall perspectives.
Intuned is not a word LOL!
if spellinmg is soe destreacting i woorei 4 yuo.haweber id ecplanes a wot.
Considering how highly you think of The West I’d at least expect you to have proper grammar, syntax and keyboarding skills like most. Show some fucking respect you sub-species barbarian.
You know, women dig a guy who can actually write a cohesive sentence.
words…drool
maybe that is why my people run the world.we do not get so easily sidetracked from such trivial things.it is funny you correcting me on what my people taught yours.who is more european lol
But anybody wants to pull down the statue in the park, he’d best show up in an M1A1
with you on that.that is our history,ancestor.who made halifax what it is.if you are against cornwallis stop benefitting from his actions.fucking hypocrites
If you don’t like it feel free to pack up and go back to England. You might be able to find some fluff there who will actually fuck you. Just think of it as paying rent to your landlord, swine.
I could show up in leather pants with a t-shirt reading “Brown Pride” and you’d stand there with shit in your pants, love in your eyes, piss in your pee-flap, and nothing in your voice box.
In short, you couldn’t and wouldn’t do shit. And if you did you’d get a fart-in-the-mouth which you would probably enjoy and actually make your breath smell fresher.
You’re not even in the military so it’s extra amusing to me.
I could show up in leather pants with a t-shirt reading “Brown Pride” and you’d stand there with shit in your pants
u did not intimidate my bloodline why would it be any different now.proud warriors-lol.no pride in their total defeat however.everywhere i look i see european influence.even that large statue of a native is due to european influnce.did the mic macs have anything before our arrival.your population was still based on the local rabbit population.primates-lol.not enough rabbits we must cut our population down sorry.lol.
your whole life existence is european even your names.what are you proud of.your languages are gone,way of life ,teachings,you live in european homes.(everything is european)have some repect for your real way of life (what feeds you)and why you have it.
your welcome.
oh by the way how are those european gods doing for you
LOL!
My name is Hebrew actually, goyim.
I would totally intimidate you. You’d stand there with a hockey helmet on asking people if they’re left or ring wing and calling them names when they laughed at you. That’s not going to deter me from tearing down your statue. And, yes, my bloodlines intimidated you in WW2. That’s why my family was part of the winning team and your Fuhrer killed himself. Come on, man, at least Custer apparently took a last stand before having his ass handed to him.
My welcome? What is my welcome? Speak English, bro. You like to thing you spawned the thing and you treat it like how women treat you when you attempt to flirt.
You’d actually be able to make a point and be somewhat insulting if you could actually spell. Fuck sakes, show your language some respect. I only learned to speak it better than your bloodline so I can slowly slit the throat of the beast. That said, I’m not only nicely tanned and better looking but am light years beyond you with grammar and speaking ability.
Mi’kmaq had everything that was needed before contact: food, roof over the head, water, and sex. You had the first three but that fourth one is something that escapes you to this day. The beauty of you not getting laid is knowing you don’t have any potential to pollute a bloodline of others. And if you did knock a woman up I’m sure she would do the noble thing and have it aborted – like your mom apparently tried to do at seven-months.
Again, you wouldn’t do shit if you saw me cutting the statue down. And if you did I’d Ike Turner your ass. And for the fun of it I’d make you call me Big Poppa.
European gods? No clue; I never bothered to watch Thor.