The Welfare of a Nation.

There are many who live their comfortable lives with no grasp of the problems that are still actually out there. For example, I have lived my entire life living in a relatively small city that always seemed clean, quiet and safe. I had no idea that there were so many mentally unstable and homeless in the downtown area until recently. The system is set up in a way to keep them there. They aren't given any incentive to try to make changes for themselves and depressingly enough, a lot of them are using their monthly welfare cheques, paid for by our tax dollars to buy drugs. In that respect the government is funding addiction and homelessness with our tax dollars. Wouldn't that money be better spent on some sort of home care service to try and put these people back on track? I know this could be done as it's a similar idea to how our system helps the disabled. I would even go as far as to argue that many of these people are disabled people who fell through the cracks.

My real issue here is not with the people who can't help themselves, as they really need something in place to keep them on the straight and narrow, so much as the people who don't want to help themselves. I personally know a few people who are more or less living off the system as a free ride. They sleep in shelters for only a small portion of their welfare cheque and try to convince others to buy them drugs and other things when they are low on funds.

This is why I feel to clean up the streets we need some form of social care system to help those who want to be helped, as I know they exist, and let those who don't want to be helped sleep in the bed they've made. I can't justify giving 30% of my paycheck to a government who helps people buy drugs and Listerine. We are taxed hard here in Canada and we smile and brag about our badass healthcare system, but maybe it's time to reexamine how that money is being spent. I'm cool with being taxed if it's in the name of making this beautiful country a better place.

I need to clarify though, obviously we can't just leave those who don't want to be helped out in the cold, as much as I believe in a certain degree of tough love. I just feel, that if you want free money, maybe you should be showing that you actually want to do well with it.

This system does not and is never gonna work as long as the policy makers have their heads up in the clouds. Unfortunately, I'm just some naive lower mid-class person who doesn't like what he sees, and maybe I'm bitter because I haven't given up and won a prize as so many do.

I'm frustrated, and maybe it's time for something new. I bet I get some hate for this one, but I'm standing by it.

The future looks bright!

Do you remember what the world used to be like? Everything was so much different. People didn't have to work two jobs to pay the rent and they had to worry about horrible problems, like what to do with free time. What was one to do? Use their imagination? That's hard work. Sleep? Pfft, who needs sleep? People even were held accountable back in the long long ago, unlike today where the laws are set up to protect the bad.

Thankfully we got past all that. Now days, we have it so much better. We are all tethered to wireless devices to assure us that we never have those pesky moments of peace and quiet. Also, we work so often, I personally forget what beaches look like. As I recall they were the kind of place that enabled thinking and sorting thoughts. I'm sure glad we got past that. Now we have focus in our lives and clear things to work towards. For example, we need to struggle to afford to eat, or have a home. For a while there we did that but still had some free money that we had to think about spending. Thankfully the cost of gas was more than happy to step up and keep our mind off that extra money.

I proudly feel that we as a race are always looking to the future. I admit great jealousy for my children and their children after them. Imagine how wonderful their world will be. Maybe they will finally have a world where those boring forests are turned into useful car dealerships and even more overpriced gas stations. Maybe some of them will even be able to escape the burden of home owning. All I know for sure is that the next generation is in for a very interesting future and they will have us to thank for it.