I always thought Evening Star was a shaggy mane. 8^)
Posted on 01/24/2009 10:10:35 AM PST by EveningStar
..."My job is in Barrhaven. I work nights. I must walk 18 kilometres to work. It takes six hours. And then I must walk six hours home after I work all night. I am nearly 60.
"This strike shouldn't happen," she says. "I come home, I rest for a few hours. Can you imagine to work all night and after to walk 18 kilometres home and then, sit down for two or three hours and then walk back and work all night again?"...
(Excerpt) Read more at ottawacitizen.com ...
Then you'd be wrong.
I live in Ottawa, and this bus strike has been horrible for thousands of people who depend on transit. I know of one woman who spent $40 on a cab to get to an appointment, and walked home from it because she couldn't afford to go both ways. 22KM.
We have a little over 1 million people, but the city is spread over a very large geographical area.
They won't give White Males a job either. They're reserved for minorities...but, they're using your money.
Don’t worry. If she’s a fraud, she’ll soon be found out.
In spite of this article, I'd say if you are going to be poor, the US and Canada would be the best places to do it.
Our poor are much richer than any other poor in the world.
They are allowed to hire temporary workers, yet they won't do it, and they won't drive the buses themselves. (They could keep a few routes running.)
We really don't have to go through this again.
Are you one of those birth certificate conspiracy people?
If so, ummmm....good luck with that one. Hope you enjoy being marginalized and thought of as the lunatic fringe.
Absolutly!
I have been to some real 3rd world countries, and we (US and Canada_ have it so much better, there is almost no comparison.
But it still sucks to be old and poor.
I didn’t expect the government to pick up my hubby. I just saw that van coming into my subdivision EVERY SINGLE MORNING to pick up a ‘senior’ to go to bingo or whatever. Why couldn’t they pick up my spouse at the same time and take him to town, since they were going there anyway? If you are going to tax us to give out a perk, then give it out to everyone that needs it, or only to people that truly can’t afford it.
"Get over yourself."
My, my, aren't you pleasant. Didn't your mommy ever tell you if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all?
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It sure does.
I always thought Evening Star was a shaggy mane. 8^)
I forgot what I was gonna say.
I live in Ottawa, let me give you all the rundown on what is happening.
The transit union (bus drivers and mechanics) are on strike. They were offered a 10% raise over 3 years and a $2500 signing bonus but the union got them to turn it down because the union wants to set the work schedules for bus drivers. This was something that was given to the union over a decade ago, and they have done a poor job of it resulting in a 400% increase in overtime, costing the city a lot of money and also putting some drivers on the road for much longer than it really is safe for them to be. The union won’t give an inch, and their leader is an arrogant, thuggish man with no regard for the public. It seems he really doesn’t care about the union members either, and why they don’t revolt against him I don’t know. I know a bus driver, he and his family are hurting bad from his being out of work so long, but they have been stirred up to such anger against the city by these union thugs that they are sacrificing their families well being to support the union when it is the union that should be helping them.
While I can get by fine without them (in fact I like driving to work much better than taking the bus, even with the extra traffic) there are a lot of older and poorer people who are very much at risk from this. I think it’s sad that so many people don’t have a church or other social group who they can call on for help, but such is life these days for many.
This doesn’t look like it will end soon. And even if it ended today it would take them weeks to get service back up to normal levels.
Most of the public is very much on side with the city and would be happy to see the union busted. The city hasn’t done much in that area though.
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