Put an Stop to Ontario Works and Ontario Disability

What is being done to reduce welfare? Reduce the numbers, reduce the payout from that program to people, that we are paying for with our tax money? There is so much fraud in the system, many people who can physically work, but would rather live in poverty and on public money while doing nothing to better themselves or to at least provide for themselves.

If someone wants to live in poverty, I am fine with that, but I don’t want to pay for it when its their choice. Wasn’t welfare initiated for war vets, how did it spin out of control to the way people now choose to live on public handouts. 

If you ask 100 working people, we will all say that the system is there for a help up, not a handout. I was once on student welfare in highschool, then again in my early twenties while in college- welfare was not a lot of money$, just barely enough to help. But that’s the motivation to get off welfare, its not supposed to be the solution. Welfare is not supposed to be a lifestyle, but the government has made it such. For people who choose to have kids, they know that the child or children they have are their ticket to unearned money, subsidized housing, subsized everything (really as low as $2.5 a day for daycare, while employed people pay over $35 for a toddler).

I had a liveout care giver for my kids, since I work full time and also help run a business, and I have a part time job, and the caregiver told me, that half of her highschool class(the females) thought that was their ticket in life; to get pregnant out of wedlock, and raise a child as a single mother on welfare, until who knows, as long as they could milk the system. And that’s just what she did herself after 4 months, and she quit, once she was pregnant. I feel badly for the young man she did that to, and the child- who may be loved, but will grow up likely to repeat that mothers behaviour, and again be a draw on the tax base and not a contributor.

My husband and I own our business and try to hire people for positions and for the 30 resumes I get that were all drafted from the same Ontario Works (Welfare)job center in the exact same format, I will call all 30 for interviews, of which I will get 5 who I reach over the phone, arrange interviews and then only 2 show up, and then even if I hire one or both, they only last a day or two. Why is that? Is pushing a lawn mower too much for them? Working for a living, like the rest of the world, too much? How lazy a society we have created and tolerated.  Well if you have lived on the system for so long, or grown up in the system, working is foreign; they don’t know how to work, because they have never had to.   What is the motivation, when they know the governement(aka our tax dollars) are going to pay for their clothes, food, rent, phone, cable, internet.  If thats the case, why would any of us work?
 
Stop coddling the people who should work and paying for their lifestyle of poverty. Why do I have to look to the foreign worker system, when I can’t get our own Ontarians to fill jobs. We have not told the people on the system, they are responsible for themselves(and their children), nor have we showed it but setting policy or even policing or auditing the system, so we know its serving the right people. Welfare and Ontario Disability should be reserved for those who need it as a hand-up only- short term while they get on their feet with a time limit, not those who manipulate the system, and make the rest of us, hard working people pay for it.

Let’s all stand up now, and a fix the system, before our society is filled with a population, who can’t even push a lawn mower for a paycheque.