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Ottawa program offers drinks to homeless alcoholics
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Posted on 01/03/2006 7:34:37 PM PST by Fido969
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The ultimate of the enabling nanny state. How to deal with drunks? Just get them off the street, into taxpayer-funded housing, and keep them drunk on the taxpayer's dime. Oh, Canada, eh?
Alchoholism is a PROGRESSIVE desease. There is a temporary improvement - but these folks will just accelerate on their downward slide.
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posted on
01/03/2006 7:34:38 PM PST
by
Fido969
To: Fido969
Hopefully the Liberals will soon be homeless....
To: Fido969
One problem is free health care. We have to pay for all of their medical care. And in Canada, free health care is the holiest of holy cows. It is honestly, and pathetically, one of the key defining "Canadian" things. Saying bad things about free health care is pretty much taken as blasphemy. Or more like burning an American flag to the Americans. Isn't it great that the Canadian national identity is intertwinned with a socialist utopian boondoggle?
So this is, in a way, cost reduction (if it pans out as advertised at least, which I wouldn't bet on). Bah. I'm not sticking around in the country for long.
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posted on
01/03/2006 7:45:59 PM PST
by
M203M4
To: Fido969
Hey, they can't disagree with you when they are drugged or drunk. Very nice passive little citizens when they are on the sauce. And they vote, too.
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posted on
01/03/2006 7:49:06 PM PST
by
dhs12345
To: Fido969
No A.A. in Canada? Or is that somehow politically incorrect?
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posted on
01/03/2006 7:54:29 PM PST
by
Salman
To: Salman
They have AA, but AA requires one to admit they have a problem and take responsibility for themselves and their sobriety.
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posted on
01/03/2006 7:56:44 PM PST
by
Fido969
("And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32).)
To: Fido969
What a great idea! We should ship all of our bums to Canada.
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posted on
01/03/2006 7:58:01 PM PST
by
Brett66
(Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: dhs12345
Hey, they can't disagree with you when they are drugged or drunk. Very nice passive little citizens when they are on the sauce. And they vote, too. Yeah, there is a long waiting list to get into the program.
Lessee, detox, rehab and six months in a halfway house... Or plan B - the government give them a free place to stay and feeds them free drinks.
OK, soppy, what say you?
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posted on
01/03/2006 7:58:33 PM PST
by
Fido969
("And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32).)
To: M203M4
Just hit me the other day (I may be completely wrong):
Why are Canadian drugs so cheap? Because the U.S. citizen is subsidizing Canadian drugs.
How? Canada, in mass, negotiate for cut rate prices on all drugs. Drugs that are developed and manufactured here in the U.S. and used by U.S. citizens.
If the U.S. were band together to do the same, then the drug companies would have to raise Canadian drug prices or accept much lower profits. Note: these profits are used to research new drugs.
The same would happen if more and more Americans buy their drugs from Canada. Bet you there is some contractual agreement with the drug companies to limit the number of sales back to the U.S. through Canada.
Americans are subsidizing the "wonderful" Canadian Health Care system.
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posted on
01/03/2006 8:04:13 PM PST
by
dhs12345
To: Fido969
Benefit of this program:
The nannies feel better about themselves
They ignore the sad reality that essentially there is nothing they can do to genuinely help these people other than food and shelter. i.e., make them a little more comfortable on their way to death.
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posted on
01/03/2006 8:09:50 PM PST
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s......you weren't really there.)
To: CanadianBloodAmericanHeart
It'll never happen. They keep stealing our money.
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posted on
01/03/2006 8:12:42 PM PST
by
Just Lori
(The road to hell is paved by liberals.)
To: Fido969
I hope they're giving them some smokes too !
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posted on
01/03/2006 8:19:45 PM PST
by
Mears
(The Killer Queen)
To: ChildOfThe60s
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posted on
01/03/2006 8:27:07 PM PST
by
Rakkasan1
(Peace de Resistance! Viva la Paper towels!)
To: Fido969
That's not the half of the socialist state, how about this one: the City of St. Louis sets homeless alchololics up in apartments with cabinets stocked with liquor! Reason, they'd rather "provide" the liquor since the addicted will probably get it somehow and it would be better to provide it rather than have the addicts stealing, etc. Taxpayer funded addictions?
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posted on
01/03/2006 8:27:08 PM PST
by
zerosix
(Native Sunflower)
To: Spanaway Lori
Now there's where you are wrong. It's never been OUR money. It's their money. I would give both testicles (OK not both, but the left one) to be able to leave this sorry excuse for a country....
To: Fido969
Ottawa shelter that gives drinks to homeless alcoholics
----Might as well start offering crack and heroin to homeless drug addicts cause now they will be screaming discrimination . (just kiddin)
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posted on
01/04/2006 12:43:57 AM PST
by
WasDougsLamb
(I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man)
To: Fido969
There is another angle to this that I just thought of. The nannies are slowly [deliberately?] euthanizing these sad creatures. They are already killing themselves. Isn't it more kind and dignified if they don't have to steal and can stay comfortable while the government helps them along to their destination? Everyone in society benefits this way (liberal reasoning), don't they?
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posted on
01/04/2006 5:04:16 AM PST
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s......you weren't really there.)
To: Mears
I hope they're giving them some smokes too ! No smoking!
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posted on
01/04/2006 5:54:46 AM PST
by
Fido969
("And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32).)
To: ChildOfThe60s
Isn't it more kind and dignified if they don't have to steal and can stay comfortable while the government helps them along to their destination? Hmmm...
I think the government should give me cars, homes, boats, vacations - because if they don't I'll just exploit the working class and get those things anyway.
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posted on
01/04/2006 5:56:08 AM PST
by
Fido969
("And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32).)
To: zerosix
Reason, they'd rather "provide" the liquor since the addicted will probably get it somehow and it would be better to provide it rather than have the addicts stealing, etc You know - I don't believe the claim that the consumption of these people dropped from 30 something drinks a day to 8. I doubt that the 30 something number was an average, and also I'd be willing to bet that when these drunks get there hourly ration of rum (More, sir?) they lick their lips and say to themselves "That didn't quite cut it" and go out and hustle, steal, panhandle, whatever, for more booze to get up to whatever level they think they needed.
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posted on
01/04/2006 6:01:20 AM PST
by
Fido969
("And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32).)
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