Want to stay off of the public dole? Too bad!
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 8:36 pm
A person close to me, “Daniel,” has been exceedingly busting his hump while laboring at extremely grueling jobs in the B.C. (Canada) forestry sector—every kind of work, except “killing the trees”—in order to stay off of the public dole. Nonetheless, no matter how hard he, and very many others who feel that they were born to do forestry work, attempts to find such paying work, there are always randomly occurring and varying week numbered periods of “Employment Insurance” dependence for him.
However, our federal government has made it clear that it’s not going to accept as adequate, let alone admirable effort, Daniel’s unrelenting efforts at finding paying forestry work, regardless of the fact that B.C.’s corrupt provincial government has—by its notoriously pathetic (non-)maintenance of B.C.’s forests—even broken provincial laws stating that it must maintain a healthy forestry sector. Sure, the government finds no problem when it comes to raping large swaths of trees for countless square kilometers, but everything else has gone to hell, including what once was reliable non-logging forestry work.
Now Daniel is relying on a forestry profession that, according to a survey of west coast (including California) celebrities, is at the very bottom of the list of back-breaking jobs that the survey participants would be willing to perform—i.e. tree planting; and a gradually-graying Daniel is almost 50 years of (hard-work-history) age.
And B.C.’s government has the gall and complete lack of integrity in order to mass-advertise—all with public monies, of course—its “BC Jobs Plan” while heading into the imminent provincial election.
Oh, how bitter the irony …
However, our federal government has made it clear that it’s not going to accept as adequate, let alone admirable effort, Daniel’s unrelenting efforts at finding paying forestry work, regardless of the fact that B.C.’s corrupt provincial government has—by its notoriously pathetic (non-)maintenance of B.C.’s forests—even broken provincial laws stating that it must maintain a healthy forestry sector. Sure, the government finds no problem when it comes to raping large swaths of trees for countless square kilometers, but everything else has gone to hell, including what once was reliable non-logging forestry work.
Now Daniel is relying on a forestry profession that, according to a survey of west coast (including California) celebrities, is at the very bottom of the list of back-breaking jobs that the survey participants would be willing to perform—i.e. tree planting; and a gradually-graying Daniel is almost 50 years of (hard-work-history) age.
And B.C.’s government has the gall and complete lack of integrity in order to mass-advertise—all with public monies, of course—its “BC Jobs Plan” while heading into the imminent provincial election.
Oh, how bitter the irony …