The E.I. cookie jar

They’re eying it right now.

Millions of Canadians out of work,
and they’re ogling that E.I. surplus again
gonna hand it out to some rich fucks

E.I. should kick in immediately when you lose your job.
Not 1 month later.
It should NOT be dependent on your savings being used up first
You paid into it, so that you wouldn’t have to lose your savings when you were between jobs
There’s a $50 BILLION dollar surplus
It should be paying for WAGE SUBSIDIES to get people into long term employment
It should be paying for EDUCATIONAL GRANTS

but for the second or third time in 2 decades
its a fucking cash cow to the ruling elite
they’re drooling all over themselves about how they can steal it

WE PAID for it on the understanding it would be used to help us get EMPLOYMENT
now it’s just another tax the poor have been paying all along
business owners don’t pay it, we, the working people do

It should be used for what it was collected for
the Supreme Court should rule that money collected under the auspices of delivering a public service must remain dedicated to THAT service, not just yanked out for general revenue.

Pay your rich fuck buddies out of your own pocket you fat cats
I paid into EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
and when I’m looking for a job, I should have EMPLOYMENT SERVICES actually doing something for me related to EMPLOYMENT.

When they steal this $50 Billion, that will be over $75 Billion stolen in less than 2 decades.
Think about that while you apply for a coffee barista job with your degree in hand….

24 and Metro – Your daily U.S. counterintelligence "Canadian" programming feed

plug it in every morning
front page at every transit location
3/4 of each rag is about the “positive aspects” of police, security, big gov’t.
Condo’s for sale, celebrity slutwatch,
coy little “submitted” pieces on the glory of americanization.
1 out of 4 issues they have a lefty piece, just so it won’t be too suspicious
but both rags are owned by the same company at the top
and the major players in the company who owns them are Americans

You know what really bugs me
They all go in the trash, they aren’t recycled
so do they pay the municipality garbage for the fact that they are thrown away?

And why do they get to have Propaganda Pablum Pushers shoving this evil mindfuck bullshit ito our bleary eyed little paws each morning? If someone stands exactly in the same spot as the 24/metro pusher and tries to sell you weed or their ass they’d get arrested!! But not the BS pushers, they get a free ride for that fucked up shite.

It’s fucking CIA trash. Insidious as that new chewing gum that sticks to your fingers like a voracious phlegm when you try to make like you’re going to throw it out.

Seriously, read these two mind-control rags a bit more skeptically over the next couple weeks and compare the two brands of shitroll. They’re both filled with shit and can’t hold any more.
They’re both identical in texture and “content.”
Both are equally abrasive and designed to tear your ass, I mean brain, to shreds.

Don’t tell me about the pro U.S. Arabs running Darfur and slaughtering the indigineous African population with U.S. Apache helicopters, I need more Paris Hilton!!! I need more Brangelina!!!
Oops they did it again, they made you believe, you could really be freeeeeeeeee!!!
(one day, please forgive me for that…)

Accept your place silly meat robot,
don’t question the validity of the Daily Pablum News Force.
All your facebook are belong to us…..

#21 – What Canada REALLY Needs – The end of the Afghan Crusades

It’s not about “terrorism”
It’s not about “human rights”

It’s a Christian Crusade against another land
in the interests of securing an oil pipeline for our neighbor

It’s part of the Christian vs Muslim war
regardless of how Stephen wants to paint it
It’s a war based on RELIGIOUS BELIEF

and that’s not something MULTICULTURAL Canada
should be involved in.

Pull our troops back to one main city
set a perimeter around the university, airstrip, hospital, and room for a tent city to grow
no more offensive Canadian actions
only defensive ones at the compund
anyone can come to learn, get medical attention, etc.

No Canadian troops anywhere else in the country
Let other countries even do the transport of people to the compund.

Anything else is Christian aggression against an opposing religious belief.
And a colonialist expansion.

You know I’m right.
You know that’s what it’s really about.

#20 – What Canada REALLY Needs – The end of the SIGNATURE – true identity privacy and verification

Data theft, identity theft, fraud
they’re all running rampant

This is the age where a colour photocopier can reproduce money realistically
and we still trust little scribbles on paper

Any document, checks included
where a signature is used to sign some kind of authority over
should be required by law to have a photo of the signer signing the document
little webcams are cheap

Banks should be made to conform to the law
that says they must cash Government checks
without a waiting period
Money mart can do it

The federal gov’t needs to make it impossible to forge an authorization

A SIGNATURE DOESN”T CUT IT ANYMORE!!!!

We see it every day
a few hours of practice
and someone can get close enough
because banks don’t even check the signature anymore

make financial institutions responsible for immediate verification
they’re making billions in profit
and now they want bailouts
make them invest in true security
of private information

Government privacy laws are being avoided and gotten around
on an unprecendented basis
through private contracted firms giving us “service”
handling our private information
without the controls or security
that government offices have to follow.
Minimum wage clerks
with access to massive databanks of private information
slip them some money
and wait for their phone call
to tell you want you can’t get
by calling a bank
multitudes of poor clerks
with access to everything about you
and you don’t have a “choice”
if you want to recieve the subcontracted government “service”

we need comprehensive protection of our privacy
and comprehensive protection of our identity verification process

This is the 21st century
and Canadians are losing almost half a TRILLION dollars a year
because we still rely
on a fucking SCRIBBLE!!!!

#19 – What Canada REALLY Needs – Federal complaints process for all provincial contracted service providers

Having problems with a contractor that’s giving you services that are now the “responsibility” of the provinces?

There’s only ad-hoc verbal complaints mechanisms, usually to the supervisor of the very entity you have a problem with.

There should be a central FEDERAL complaints office.

The massive money suck and LAND grab

So why is there a massive “financial crisis” right now?
Let me tell you.
Its so fucking obvious.

Bush is leaving.
He and his ass-fuck buddies
set this whole thing up you know.
It was planned a couple of years before he took office
by CIA analysts
he spent 8 years in office
setting it up
deregulating this and that
starting a war to distract everyone
getting his pals in our own gov’t to get on their knees
setting up “initiatives” that were designed to fail
they set up the whole system like dominoes

and now he’s got a couple weeks
to topple them all over
so he and his buddies
can rake in the profits from everyones losses
and buy up the homes and land
they were tricked into losing

How much of Canada is going to be bought up by Americans
in the fire-sale they’ve DESIGNED
to loot and pillage the world with?

And afterwards we’ll let the IMF and World Bank
whose “open market” bullshit
and pressure tactics to remove social safety net’s worldwide
be the regulators?

It’s the new Sneaky Colonialism
dismantling of anything human-positive
turning us all into good little slaves
or killing us with poverty
where the few own everything
and we have nowhere to voice
our displeasure.

It was PLANNED for over a decade
are we clear on that yet?
Or do you still actually believe its a “mistake”?

#18 – What Canada REALLY Needs – Guaranteed income and Copyright protection for Canadian Artists, Musicians, Writers, and Craftspeople

The perpetual ripoff is continuing in Canada
The ripoff of the creative by the fat cats with money
Book publishers, music publishers, arts publishers, art galleries
It’s been going on for almost 2000 years
probably more

The people that create the greatest works of art
the pieces that people are oohing and ahhing about 100 years later
live in poverty and squalor
institutionalized poverty
It’s a huge fucking scam that everyone knows about
but no one will stick up for them
because they can’t afford lawyers

The one policy I agree with of Stephen Harper’s
is his axing of benefits to these huge “arts organizations”
that are just rich fuck brown nosing ass-licking sinkholes
The rich stand around partying
on taxpayers money
in huge glassy edifices
paying shitloads for fucking shit-art
abstract bullshit that doesn’t make waves
Twelve foot paintings of squares and triangles
thousands of dollars for scribbles
fucking bullshit

What we need is a guaranteed wage for original Canadian artists
Paid directly to the artists, not to some big organization
with administrative costs to match their parking lots of SUV’s
real artists dying in the streets

How many Van Gogh’s and Bill Reid’s have we slaughtered?
Driven to nothing
spit upon

We ripped apart the social services system that was keeping them alive
consolidated the media
payouts for art go right to the rich now
no ones paintings get shown till they’re dead
or they suck some rich fucker’s dick
it’s fucking sick

What we need is a new paradigm of true modern living arts
supported at the grass roots level

A gov’t website
each week, to keep getting their paltry $1000 a month
barely enough to scrape by
they have to post 1 painting per week
or one chapter of their book
or one poem

Every Canadian is given a set of credits they spend
They get TAX credits for spending them on the Canadian Arts site
they go online
and browse the NEW Canadian art and music and writing
they give credits to what they like
Artists who get the most credits in a month
get a bonus
Artists who go 3 consecutive months
with no credits
lose their right to participate for a year

The gov’t protects the copyright
of all artists posted
none of this shit
of a poor artist
being responsible for protecting their work
from being mass produced
in China or the Middle East
and shipped all over the world

The Canadian Gov’t itself
distributing the art
of LIVING Canadian artists
Like iTunes
but purely Canadian

Craftspeople making handcrafts
carvings and weavings
delivered by Canada Post
to Canadian consumers

Canadian musicians
getting promoted by their own people
the PEOPLE choosing
not art-fag curators with pockets full of bribes
saliva on their dicks

Money for the arts in Canada
is all going into the hands of the already wealthy
while the true groundbreaking art
that will be remembered
is copied and passed around
underground
until some entrepreneur in another country
takes advantage of the fact
that a poor Canadian artist or writer
will never be able to sue them
and CSIS, unlike Interpol
doesn’t investigate the ripoffs
of Canadian cultural heritage

Publishers make millions off of a book
While the writer themselves
makes a couple hundred thousand
Music publishers gouge artists
for 50% of the royalties
while Socan doesn’t even know how
to automatically scan every song on every station
in the age of computer spreadsheets and song recognition services
they still follow their old way
of tiny commercial radio sampling
keeping a huge portion of what they collect
and never distributing it.

Think about it
A Canadian artist
Being promoted by his Gov’t while he’s still alive
A potter being shown internationally
while she still breathes
not worrying about having to work at an American fast food franchise
to live

Arts funding pays for “Playhouses” and “Symphonies”
That only the rich can afford to visit

Cities spend more on a single Art Gallery in a year
than their whole province spends on welfare in a year
and none of the artists alive in that city
is ever hung there

Galleries should receive their funding
based on the amount of wallspace dedicated
to living artists
from that particular city
and by the number of people that actually go
to the gallery

Suddenly curators would actually have to look around
they would have to find the true artists in their city
and they would have to find the art that truly draws people
not the puerile shit that the art snob schmooze scene
is trying to promote

Think about your last visit to your local municipal art gallery
how many living local artists were represented there?

The Good Witches and the Evil Witches

So I study philosophy and spirituality
I study the spirituality and beliefs of many cultures and Paths
Trying to find the concepts that are common ground

I’ve met a lot of Witches.
There are a lot of very different paths in Paganism.
Gardnerians, Dianics, OTO, Thelema, Theosophy, Gnosticism, Druidism, Santeria
And on and on
So many different Paths.

Mostly, on Commercial Drive in Vancouver
I run into Buddhists and good little Earth Witches
from the two main branches of reconstructed NeoPagan Wicca

almost two years ago I was at a party
I knew at least 4 people there were witches
and I wasn’t sure of their Path
I thought it might be a set of LaVey Satanists
Who mostly aren’t evil at all
Its more of a Neitschean “Will to Power”
kind of thing, about individuality and becoming a strong human
But by the end of the night I realized
they were something else entirely

Standing on the balcony of the host’s apartment
just down the street from The Drive
looking down to an quiet East Van neighborhood
We were standing, having a beer and a smoke
it was still early, still light out

A woman and her 7 year old daughter
were playing in their back yard
digging in the garden
The daughter was wearing too short of a dress
for bending down and digging

“Oh yeah baby”
I hear around me
chuckles and nods
and it takes me a second to realize
they weren’t ogling the mother
in her jeans
they were ogling the child
of 7 or so

3 men and a woman
The host and hostess of the 3rd floor apartment
their coven leader
and another man
looking at a seven year old child
and thinking lusty thoughts

I voiced a comment of disapproval
after letting them continue for a couple minutes
to see if this was real
to watch their faces
actual lust on their faces
for a child
It was hard to wait that few minutes
but I had to see
that it WAS real
cringing inside
watching them almost drool
the woman giggling
as if she were watching a porno

In the day she sells flowers
across from the park
“oh fun,” she giggles

It’s not a criminal offense to leer
but I quite clearly saw
in their faces
that they would love to do more than watch

I wonder if more happens
above the pizza joint
up the hill
where they gather
or down in their east van “practice space”
how far do they go

the way they are leering
I can see they have no qualms
about touching
or more
madness of this sort travels quickly
in hierarchical religions
whole monasteries
of pedophile monks
have been known in the past

They get really pissed off when I exclaim
and the woman, startled
takes her child inside

At another party I catch one talking to another
how they are planning to “bring him down to nothing”
because the woman never came outside again with her little girl
I ruined their fun
and so they decided to target me

I’ve seen what they do
I don’t know how they managed it
but they had a man and woman
married
somehow they managed to arrange that she would have a car accident
the same day that he had a work accident
they were only a couple rooms from each other
in the same hospital
somehow, in the same hospital
a whole coven sucking off of the pain and anguish created
they feed off the misery of others
don’t believe me
I don’t care
the couple believes me now
I’ve watched them a few times since
working against people

Its so much better to work for life
not misery

Before we start the witch hunt to find them
remember all the “Good Priests”
hiding behind their crosses
hiding amidst the truly Good
with their evil
with their lust for the children of their flock

So many good little Earth Witches

Yet these Evil Ones
do very much exist

That’s all I have to say about it.
Think deeply about it
and look around you
whatever your Path is

Ones like these
can taint an entire Path
with their shit.

The Jesus Stories…Listening to Jesus….

So this is my first of many Jesus stories.
It has some racial epithets in it,
hold off until the end of the story, and you will see why.

So there’s this cool cat
named Jesus
He’s poor, but smart
cause grew up with some crazy Essene monk dudes,
and he walks around with his Crew,
and some whores they picked up along the way.
Safety in numbers
besides,
a bunch of guys on the road is pretty boring
so it was cool to have the chicks along

So they’re traveling around
The guys all play instruments
and even some of the chicks
and they do shows,
to make money for their journey
Jesus was the MC and lead songwriter

All around the land as they travel
People hear about the shows
many kinds and colours of people
people of many faiths
each walking on their own Paths
their own Journeys

They hear that Jesus and his crew are coming
They’re doing a show
in The Glade
and each of them, alters their Path a bit
so they can go and see Jesus
hear him talk

They’ve heard about some of the things he’s said
from their friends
from other people who went to see a Jesus show
and those that like what they heard
about Jesus shows being fun
and everyone being welcome
alter their Path a bit
to go see Jesus

The old folks and the Priests
the lovers of Hierarchy
the grim faced hawkers of Hate
Hate Jesus
because, like all musicians
not under Control of Authority
he makes their children rebellious
but the children who believe
in unity and peace
they have always hated the Hatred
and they sneak out anyways

All these colours, races, faiths, Paths
come out of the forest
at the Glade
and gather
they exchange stories
about their Paths
and their Encounters
and when Jesus and his crew climb the mount
a hush falls upon them
because they want to hear
the stories

The musicians play
people dance
people sing
Jesus leads them in songs
songs they all can sing together
even though they speak different tongues
and walk different Paths
they join hands and sing
each in their own way

And finally when everyone needs a break
in the hot sun of the afternoon
they sit down
and are quiet
so they can hear him talk
about what this means
how so many different Paths
can be together

imagine you are one of them
ignoring the bullshit of the Priests
all the old stories of Glorious Hatred
letting them fall away
and listening
belonging

if you look around
and say
“what’s that-
Jew – doing here?!”
“what’s that-
faggot – doing here?!”
“what’s that-
nigger – doing here?!”
“what’s that-
towelhead – doing here?!”
“what’s that-
chink – doing here?!”
“what’s that-
whore – doing here?!”
“what’s that-
tranny – doing here?!”
“what’s that-
homeless fucker – doing here?!”
“what’s that-
Witch – doing here?!”
“what’s that-
Vodun – doing here?!”
“what’s that-
Pagan – doing here?!”
“what’s that-
pot-head/coke-head/drunk/e-tard – doing here?!”

on and on

As soon as you turn to say that

You’ve stopped listening to Jesus…

World Financial Crisis – The Biggest BULLSHIT Scam in History!

What a huge steaming crockpot full of BULLSHIT.
Fucking bullshit. Its a manufactured crisis. Billions of dollars of analysts in some rich fuckers employ have it analyzed to the penny.

Think about it.
You put money into something.
Lots of people put money into something.
You all get a bit out, some kind of profit.
Everybody tells their friends
lots more people put money into it
Suddenly the money’s gone

The magicians tilt the pot upside down and look around
Where did it go? It just disappeared!

Fucking bullshit.
The money went in, and landed in someones pocket
But since those someones actually own all the media we’re watching
all the little foolish meat robots losing money to the trick
scurry around like chicken little
“The sky is falling!!! The sky is falling!!!”
echoed through every TV set and radio
The same fear mongering shit
Keeping our minds off of the bullshit all around us
and keeping us from percieving where that money went.

Our financial institutions are in trouble because we allowed them to deregulate
to buy and sell credit, loans, and mortgages in bulk
a bank should be responsible for their customers
not bulk sales and shady deals

Someone’s got a shitload of cash
You all threw money into the pot
It didn’t go anywhere

it’s hidden in the secret stash
waiting for the theives to claim it
at their leisure.

Don’t tell me to tighten my belt
you rich banker/manufacturer/stock market charlatans
Sell off a couple of your million dollar houses
a few of your half dozen luxury cars
reign in your golf memberships
and tell your wife she can’t get a new fur coat every year
riding around in their limos
they cry to us for salvation
tell us there’s no money
for raises

Hunting the Canadian Dissident…

I walk out to the bus
There’s two cops on the bus.
There’s only 10 people on the double length bus.
When you write about the apocalypse
suddenly police appear
Overly interested in ME.

And they try to assure us
it’s not becoming a police state
writer’s aren’t labeled terrorists
20 years riding the bus
we never really needed transit police
certainly not two of them
to protect us from the poor
who try to get rides for free?

then why is he actually standing
near ME.

It’s funny how there were no police
when a group of pedophilia peddling gangsters
tried to drug and kill me

(I’ve spoken with police since
about it
they laughed it off
like a missing prostitute)

This has been going on for a while
for over a year actually, almost two

I get dogged on the train all the time
maybe I’m just their practice target
preparing for the olympics

I’m not paranoid.
I pop off the train at the last second
watch 3 of them suddenly trying
to push for the door
like an action flick at the movies
I’ve done it almost 6 times now,
the quick switch, slipping out, transferring
watching the windows
as they try to get off and follow
cellphones flipping open
sweat on their brow.

I watch the shoes and skirts of those paying attention to me
cellphone camera eye
nonchalantly swings in my direction
briefcase twisting awkwardly
to point at me
switching and moving
eluding
I see the same 70’s print
or the same heel and pants
with a different sweater on
a different hat and bag
ten blocks later

It’s hard to change pants
and dresses
and shoes
on the fly
but the wear of a shoe, an angle or curve in a print
is never duplicated in the real world
Do you see?

It’s not paranoia
It’s observation.

Someone watching
pretending they are not
I feel the attention
move places on the bus or train
suddenly I am beside or behind them
smiling looking at the side of their head
I watch them resist turning
their hand on the cellphone
beads of sweat on their brow
the shaking
of adrenaline
hunter learns the feeling
of the hunted
in a simple change of position

I would guess
I am a hard target
when I don’t just let them follow
when I get pissed off
and track them
keeping score

when I turn
and play
the Game
for real

I peg more than a dozen
one day
are they demoralized by this?
I wonder
if they ever consider
MY feelings?
Watched
Followed
Hunted

I use a phone to call a government number
for information
spin around a corner
turn back
and watch a police car stop
at the store with the phone inside
I hear the officers talking about
the description
describing ME.
Laughing.

I disappear
Tears in my eyes.

Do they consider their actions moral?

Harassment and hunting of the intellectuals
like the bloody streets of mexico, russia, cambodia
when poets were hunted and killed
for their words

Who do you call
when it’s police following you?
Who do you call
when it’s authority
painting you black?
I am a dissident
labelled by americans
our security and prosperity partnership
ensures my own police
in my country
will track me
like a dog with rabies

like my friend used to say
for the last 10 years
“They’ll kill you for writing that shit”
He said
over and over
I’m pretty sure they will.
Or frame me for something
Make up a reason
to execute me
in an alley
a gun I’ve never seen before
in my hands
placed there
anything to catch a “terrorist”

for writing
for daring to say
the playing field
isn’t level

for daring to say
that cameras
and batons
tasers
and black gloves

are not
in any sense

freedom.

Misanthropy

I fucking hate these stupid evil monkeys
and this fucking shit world they’ve created.
Killing each other , fucking each other over,
enslaving each other, enslaving their children.
I’ve always thought revelations was bullshit
but days like this I welcome the apocalypse
cleanse the earth of this fucking ignorant shit

So take your world to your hell
the prophet Stephen Hawkings
has already rung the doomsday bell
I trust his advice
more than all the white house pentagon advisors
you could gather

Mass murderers idolatrised by screaming hordes of monkeys
“support our troops! support our troops!”
O lead us great monkey commanders
in prayers to “Our Father”
while we kneel in the blood
of enemies whose oil
we covet

C. Taylor (2009)

Misanthropy

I fucking hate these stupid evil monkeys
and this fucking shit world they’ve created.
Killing each other , fucking each other over,
enslaving each other, enslaving their children.
I’ve always thought revelations was bullshit
but days like this I welcome the apocalypse
cleanse the earth of this fucking ignorant shit

So take your world to your hell
the prophet Stephen Hawkings
has already rung the doomsday bell
I trust his advice
more than all the white house pentagon advisors
you could gather

Mass murderers idolatrised by screaming hordes of monkeys
“support our troops! support our troops!”
O lead us great monkey commanders
in prayers to “Our Father”
while we kneel in the blood
of enemies whose oil
we covet

[wip]

Drowning in the Jobwave pt2.

So I get back to this “program” that I must attend.
Everyone on assistance must attend one.
Its where private contractors, buddies of parliamentarians, suck money out of the assistance system at a rate that is greater than the amount actually paid to the recipients of assistance themselves.

They go on and on about “blocks to employment”
All the things that are keeping you from getting a job.
But they don’t really have anything to offer you other than the same slips of paper that everyone else offers you. Go here go there, all over the city.

These people have cars, and they can’t understand how hard it is to go all over the city for things that should really be in one place.

They have shitbox computers, but there’s no real technician, and the antivirus is too lame to catch shit because its not updated, because of no techie, so they’re afraid you’re going to break the computer that they haven’t got properly protected with a simple product my own cousin knows she needs to have to protect herself. If it breaks a techie could reimage it in 20 min if they had one. These people should definitely not have sex, unwrapping a condom would probably be difficult to get clear in their minds.
So you can’t use a flash drive, and you can’t use a floppy(ugh), so basically how the fuck do you get your resume to people?
The library lets you use a fucking flash drive. They don’t seem to have a problem.
So basically the computers are useless. At least to me.
Obviously to other people too, since the place is always empty and the library is always full to the fucking brim with people trying to use the computers.
The ministry should just invest in the library, pay for a bunch more computers.
They’ve got sheets of job sites on the wall, but for some reason none of these bright young lasses has figured out it would be more useful to have links to the jobsites right on the fucking toolbar in the webrowser. Bookmarks aren’t fucking rocket science.

I was getting a buss pass from PCRS before, so I could go to all thes places all over the fucking place to get food, use phones, use computers for job search, go to the doctor, go to interviews.
Jobwave doesn’t do bus passes. They do bus tickets.
Do you know why?
Because each time a Jobwave employee opens her drawer to hand you something that you used to get directly at the ministry office, they get $18 bux or so.
So if they give you a bus pass, the cost of which they are reimbursed by MiniDeath
They only get 18 bux
But if they give you tickets, then you have to go back for more
so now they make $45-80 or more handing out tickets to you, one book at a time.
They even make their $18 bux if they only give you a couple of tickets, like 4 or so.
Ka-Ching!!!! The cash register rings
Money for absofuckinglutely nothing once again.
So I have to sit, instead of going to look for jobs on the internet at the library, because I need the extra ticket for a doctors appointment which takes two tickets, or so I can go to the food bank, which takes 2 whole tickets because you have to wait longer than a bus ticket is good for.
At the end, she asked me about the company I was having an interview with and started reaching for a piece of paper. I told her I couldn’t remember the name of it. She’s actually going to try and claim a “VICTORY for Jobwave” for a job that they didn’t give me a lead for.
Money for nothing. More money than I live on as an assistance recipient. FUCK.

Yesterday I got 1 book of ten regular bus tickets -$18
Two single two zone bus tickets (not a book, just 2) – $18
A food voucher for $25 for Quest – $18
Plus they make $40 just because I sat in the chair for 5 minutes(and I got seriously grilled about why I needed a food voucher)

so that’s $94 dollars for 5 minutes of nothing but a woman reaching into a drawer to hand me some pieces of paper that I used to be able to get directly from the ministry with no fees paid out!!!!!!!!! That’s two weeks of living allowance for me almost, for 5 minutes of fucking nothing!!!!!!!!

And then I got told I couldn’t even use my USB key to email my resume to people.
I spent the next hour waiting to use a library computer even though Jobwave was practically empty of people on computers. The library computer doesn’t mind me using a key.

I believe we’d save a couple million just by going much simpler.
Put all the fucking sheets of paper that they hand out on display at the MiniDeath itself
Like they used to be.
Give each assistance recipient a picture ID
Make that assistance picture ID good on any bus, any bus zone, any recreational facility or community centre, and the library computers.
Give each recipient a sticker for their card each month to verify that they are allowed these services.
Suddenly there is no disbursement fees, no need to go to any community centre to apply for a separate card, the one assistance card works for the bus, the library computers (for a 2 hour per day job search limit, one hour isn’t enough), and for the community centres.
One card to cover what a poor person needs

No more poor people begging the bus driver for a fucking ride in the rain cause they don’t have no stingy ticket bullshit. The assistance card gets them on as long as the sticker is good.

These people make more per visit I make to see them than I get to spend on food in a week.

And I haven’t been asked ONCE for my resume. In 4 visit + extras.

I have to add this. It’s fucking gross.
2.5 weeks ago I went into the Jobwave client washroom, which is fairly clean.
Some gross ignorant goof had wiped a shit stain on the hand drier.
It’s still there 2.5 weeks later. The same fucking dried shit stain. I told 3 separate employees, 3 separate times, nicely I might add, since if I talked to people the way I write I’d have to kill half the ignorant humans I meet. Better to blogvent than go berserk from the insanity of this fucking shitfest.

I haven’t got any job leads at all through them.
They do the same tired old fucking shit we’ve been seeing for years.
“basic computer workshops” “Lifeskills workshops” “Job market workshops”

I bet they get $100 bux per client that sits in one of these money for absolutely nothing workshops. I live on $55 a week.

And they wonder why I’m so fucking sour when I walk in, stomach grumbling, and 2 bright and cheery “employment councillors” are beaming their fucking beauty princess smiles at me and piping up with their happy happy joy joy optimism fucking bullshit. Like Lt. Huxley in Demolition Man. Let’s all sing the Oscar Meyer Weiner song together. Bah Humbug.

Job LEADS make a real wave, not computers you can’t stick your resume on, fluffy bunny workshops from hell, and more of the same fucking slips of paper sending me to a skid row missionary for food.

That is, if I have a fucking ticket to get there.

A big thanks to Andrew MacLeod at the Tyee for sending me this article that lists the prices paid to JobWave.

BC Social Services Discrimination Enshrined in Policy

Apparently, if someone is not on a full medical disability, if they just get hurt and are limited in their employment options for a few months due to a serious health matter that doesn’t really require a full ongoing medical disability, just a set of limitations on what they can apply for like no heavy lifting or what not, they actually get $125 dollars less on their maximum rent allowance.

The maximum social services rent allowance is already pitiful, its about $450.

But if you are hurt, go see a doctor, and he gives you a form saying that you can’t lift anything heavy for a few months while you are getting this health issue addressed, then suddenly “kazaam”

you now are only allowed $375 per month for rent.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong here.

Isn’t the concept of discrimination that someone can’t be given less because they have a disability? Temporary or not?

The idea is that a person who needs to get an operation and can’t do a particular task without hurting themselves is still a person. They are still looking for work, but they have to limit their search to some constraint set by a medical professional. And when they get their operation they may be housebound or immobile for a month perhaps, depending on the issue involved.

But since it’s the government, who can sue them for discriminating between someone who is healthy and someone with decreased job options.

I have a number of things to say about plain old disability, I know a number of people getting regularly harassed while they live with daily real pain in a backlogged and strained medical system.

BC’s rental maximums for assistance haven’t gone up since 2005, while rents have increased in vancouver almost double in that time frame.