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	<title>Comments on: Regarding the Homeless in Vancouver, BC</title>
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		<title>By: Guy</title>
		<link>http://www.jeffkee.com/hot-issues/hot-issue-vancouver-bc-homeless-people/#comment-114266</link>
		<dc:creator>Guy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Most homeless people are MENTALLY ILL. They are not capable of doing 'labour;' they are not lazy - the CAN'T work for a living. And, yes, there are starving people in Canada - I've met them on the streets of Vancouver. You are an asshole.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most homeless people are MENTALLY ILL. They are not capable of doing &#8216;labour;&#8217; they are not lazy - the CAN&#8217;T work for a living. And, yes, there are starving people in Canada - I&#8217;ve met them on the streets of Vancouver. You are an asshole.</p>
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		<title>By: Spiqueliguila</title>
		<link>http://www.jeffkee.com/hot-issues/hot-issue-vancouver-bc-homeless-people/#comment-112645</link>
		<dc:creator>Spiqueliguila</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sounds intersting.. Are you keeping up with my   specific  province  A JOKE! )   What is a Mummy's favorite kind of music? RAGtime music! or wRAP!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sounds intersting.. Are you keeping up with my   specific  province  A JOKE! )   What is a Mummy&#8217;s favorite kind of music? RAGtime music! or wRAP!!!</p>
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		<title>By: LOL</title>
		<link>http://www.jeffkee.com/hot-issues/hot-issue-vancouver-bc-homeless-people/#comment-112514</link>
		<dc:creator>LOL</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>HAHAHAHAHAHA</description>
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		<title>By: easy no hassle payday loans</title>
		<link>http://www.jeffkee.com/hot-issues/hot-issue-vancouver-bc-homeless-people/#comment-107738</link>
		<dc:creator>easy no hassle payday loans</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Mr. X</title>
		<link>http://www.jeffkee.com/hot-issues/hot-issue-vancouver-bc-homeless-people/#comment-50312</link>
		<dc:creator>Mr. X</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Firstly, i'd like to say I used your email, jeff, for that stupid email - required thingie. I just don't trust you.
(It was either use yours or make one up :))
Anyways... the homeless are a problem in not only Vancouver but many other cities as well. What has to happen is that the government should make a fake town and give simple directions to get there. They should say "this is all free" and stuff like that so the homeless will swarm there. Once a ton of em are in the "town" the govt should either, 1: blow it all up   2: send em to the moon   3: send em to ghost towns or low populated towns    4: teach em how to work    5: rehabilitate them so they won't do drugs, gambling, and the things that generally would get people in the streets.

I like option # 2 best though cuz they could be dressed as ALIENS! And it would be pretty funny yet mean.

And to you critics out there: I don't care what you say cuz this was written just for fun.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Firstly, i&#8217;d like to say I used your email, jeff, for that stupid email - required thingie. I just don&#8217;t trust you.<br />
(It was either use yours or make one up :))<br />
Anyways&#8230; the homeless are a problem in not only Vancouver but many other cities as well. What has to happen is that the government should make a fake town and give simple directions to get there. They should say &#8220;this is all free&#8221; and stuff like that so the homeless will swarm there. Once a ton of em are in the &#8220;town&#8221; the govt should either, 1: blow it all up   2: send em to the moon   3: send em to ghost towns or low populated towns    4: teach em how to work    5: rehabilitate them so they won&#8217;t do drugs, gambling, and the things that generally would get people in the streets.</p>
<p>I like option # 2 best though cuz they could be dressed as ALIENS! And it would be pretty funny yet mean.</p>
<p>And to you critics out there: I don&#8217;t care what you say cuz this was written just for fun.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff Kee</title>
		<link>http://www.jeffkee.com/hot-issues/hot-issue-vancouver-bc-homeless-people/#comment-37914</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was at Tim Hortons late last night to grab a quick bite. This homeless fucking junky whore comes up to me, already holding leftover food in her hand, asking me if she can have my soup. I told her, "I'm not done my food, go away."

If she at least just waited til I was done I wouldn't have said anything, but how dare she even talk to me during my meal??? She interrupted me again saying "Is there anything I can do for the soup?"   And i just lost it - there isn't a single thing in this world that she can do for me to make me happy. I told her "No, FUCK OFF."

Just to make a statement, when I finished my meal, I dumped the soup container upside down in the garbage.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was at Tim Hortons late last night to grab a quick bite. This homeless fucking junky whore comes up to me, already holding leftover food in her hand, asking me if she can have my soup. I told her, &#8220;I&#8217;m not done my food, go away.&#8221;</p>
<p>If she at least just waited til I was done I wouldn&#8217;t have said anything, but how dare she even talk to me during my meal??? She interrupted me again saying &#8220;Is there anything I can do for the soup?&#8221;   And i just lost it - there isn&#8217;t a single thing in this world that she can do for me to make me happy. I told her &#8220;No, FUCK OFF.&#8221;</p>
<p>Just to make a statement, when I finished my meal, I dumped the soup container upside down in the garbage.</p>
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		<title>By: Brian</title>
		<link>http://www.jeffkee.com/hot-issues/hot-issue-vancouver-bc-homeless-people/#comment-37912</link>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well said, Jeff.  I'm just sick and tired of hearing all these bleeding heart losers say junkies need "compassion."  Compassion is nothing more than a bullshit sounding word.  The safe injecting site is going F***ing nowhere because the nimrods who run the place aren't discouraging junkies to give up taking drugs.   They should shipped off somwhere far from Vancouver, probably in the interior or something.  If I were  judge, I'd outlaw panhandling and put these classless drug dealers in their place.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well said, Jeff.  I&#8217;m just sick and tired of hearing all these bleeding heart losers say junkies need &#8220;compassion.&#8221;  Compassion is nothing more than a bullshit sounding word.  The safe injecting site is going F***ing nowhere because the nimrods who run the place aren&#8217;t discouraging junkies to give up taking drugs.   They should shipped off somwhere far from Vancouver, probably in the interior or something.  If I were  judge, I&#8217;d outlaw panhandling and put these classless drug dealers in their place.</p>
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		<title>By: Ann</title>
		<link>http://www.jeffkee.com/hot-issues/hot-issue-vancouver-bc-homeless-people/#comment-34714</link>
		<dc:creator>Ann</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The idea that homeless people don't work to survive is based on the myth that social services actually provides enough for disabled people to live on. It does not. $950 a month is not enough to cover rent and food. Disabled people have to do lots of things to survive everyday, such as travelling to food banks and dealing with transportation issues, and shopping in several different stores to get cheaper groceries rather than buying in one place. It does take up time when a person does not have a car or enough to buy food for the family in regular ways. The other myth Jeff seems to be deluded by is the myth that people on disability don't work in regular employment. Many disabled people work in paid employment but need a subsidy in the form of disability allowance to survive. Jeff seems to believe a strong believer in "Arbeit macht frei" - a concept espoused by the Nazis.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The idea that homeless people don&#8217;t work to survive is based on the myth that social services actually provides enough for disabled people to live on. It does not. $950 a month is not enough to cover rent and food. Disabled people have to do lots of things to survive everyday, such as travelling to food banks and dealing with transportation issues, and shopping in several different stores to get cheaper groceries rather than buying in one place. It does take up time when a person does not have a car or enough to buy food for the family in regular ways. The other myth Jeff seems to be deluded by is the myth that people on disability don&#8217;t work in regular employment. Many disabled people work in paid employment but need a subsidy in the form of disability allowance to survive. Jeff seems to believe a strong believer in &#8220;Arbeit macht frei&#8221; - a concept espoused by the Nazis.</p>
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		<title>By: Anne Faulkner</title>
		<link>http://www.jeffkee.com/hot-issues/hot-issue-vancouver-bc-homeless-people/#comment-32352</link>
		<dc:creator>Anne Faulkner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good for you re: stocks, RRSP's.. I was to inherit those.. spent them on my mother when she had Alzheimer's so she wouldn/'t be put in a government run "home".  I suppose by your standard I should have just put her in a home and kept the money? and fiduciary (let alone moral) responsibility be damned? :-)

In any case, truly re: your apparent belief that the fact that you have private insurance is going to cover you in event of illness - critical or otherwise.. I can only respectfully suggest that you not only talk to your accountant but try and find "someone" who will be honest with you - maybe in the medical community - about the machinations engaged in by insurance companies in order that they might deny benefits - "if" they even respond to your application and don't File 13 it 16 times - saying they never got it.. even if you FAX it or deliver it personally.

I had about 10 private insurance coverages.. I might as well have burnt the funds I paid for premiums.  I am not unique.

Don't be naive.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good for you re: stocks, RRSP&#8217;s.. I was to inherit those.. spent them on my mother when she had Alzheimer&#8217;s so she wouldn/&#8217;t be put in a government run &#8220;home&#8221;.  I suppose by your standard I should have just put her in a home and kept the money? and fiduciary (let alone moral) responsibility be damned? <img src='http://www.jeffkee.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>In any case, truly re: your apparent belief that the fact that you have private insurance is going to cover you in event of illness - critical or otherwise.. I can only respectfully suggest that you not only talk to your accountant but try and find &#8220;someone&#8221; who will be honest with you - maybe in the medical community - about the machinations engaged in by insurance companies in order that they might deny benefits - &#8220;if&#8221; they even respond to your application and don&#8217;t File 13 it 16 times - saying they never got it.. even if you FAX it or deliver it personally.</p>
<p>I had about 10 private insurance coverages.. I might as well have burnt the funds I paid for premiums.  I am not unique.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t be naive.</p>
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		<title>By: Anne Faulkner</title>
		<link>http://www.jeffkee.com/hot-issues/hot-issue-vancouver-bc-homeless-people/#comment-32347</link>
		<dc:creator>Anne Faulkner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jeff,

I had private insurance up the whazoo.. it mean't "nothing".  If you really believe that private insurance is going to help you in a time of crisis, well, for eg., if you get a brain tumor, don't ever say you had a headache, because your brain tumor will then become a point of proof in that it was not a pre-existing condition, during which time they will deny your benefits so that you can become yet one more waiting list causalty..

 The only sure way that private insurance will not fight you is if you get hit by a bus (not pre-existing by its very nature)

You must be very young..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jeff,</p>
<p>I had private insurance up the whazoo.. it mean&#8217;t &#8220;nothing&#8221;.  If you really believe that private insurance is going to help you in a time of crisis, well, for eg., if you get a brain tumor, don&#8217;t ever say you had a headache, because your brain tumor will then become a point of proof in that it was not a pre-existing condition, during which time they will deny your benefits so that you can become yet one more waiting list causalty..</p>
<p> The only sure way that private insurance will not fight you is if you get hit by a bus (not pre-existing by its very nature)</p>
<p>You must be very young..</p>
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		<title>By: Marie</title>
		<link>http://www.jeffkee.com/hot-issues/hot-issue-vancouver-bc-homeless-people/#comment-32346</link>
		<dc:creator>Marie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for sharing Olga, got any suggestions for courses?  I have already been told by HSRDC that if I can't hear like "normal people", I should go on Welfare in British Columbia.. it was the government's suggestion.. maybe you should take up your cause with "them"? because that's the feds solution.

btw, I am not in receipt of any support - financial or otherwise, from the BC government so your tax dollars are not going to me.. so mind your p's and q's.

that doesn't alter the fact that support systems are not available.. and, as much as you talk about people ripping of the system. the "fact" is that the BC system iatrogenically creates homelessness in many cases - no, not everyone who is homeless is on drugs, btw.. although I do understand how it might be convenient for you to think so..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for sharing Olga, got any suggestions for courses?  I have already been told by HSRDC that if I can&#8217;t hear like &#8220;normal people&#8221;, I should go on Welfare in British Columbia.. it was the government&#8217;s suggestion.. maybe you should take up your cause with &#8220;them&#8221;? because that&#8217;s the feds solution.</p>
<p>btw, I am not in receipt of any support - financial or otherwise, from the BC government so your tax dollars are not going to me.. so mind your p&#8217;s and q&#8217;s.</p>
<p>that doesn&#8217;t alter the fact that support systems are not available.. and, as much as you talk about people ripping of the system. the &#8220;fact&#8221; is that the BC system iatrogenically creates homelessness in many cases - no, not everyone who is homeless is on drugs, btw.. although I do understand how it might be convenient for you to think so..</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff Kee</title>
		<link>http://www.jeffkee.com/hot-issues/hot-issue-vancouver-bc-homeless-people/#comment-32345</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Kee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I won't end up there unless I get cancer within the next month or so. In the new year I'm putting the insurances in. If I ever end up with a severe disease I'll be getting premium treatment at a private hospital (unless I feel it's something that the public health care in Canada can handle). 

I don't want to rely on some "system" or a "welfare state" to help me protect my own rights so I do it on my own. I don't rely on CPP - I'm doing my own RSPs with mutual funds and will be getting into stocks soon.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I won&#8217;t end up there unless I get cancer within the next month or so. In the new year I&#8217;m putting the insurances in. If I ever end up with a severe disease I&#8217;ll be getting premium treatment at a private hospital (unless I feel it&#8217;s something that the public health care in Canada can handle). </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t want to rely on some &#8220;system&#8221; or a &#8220;welfare state&#8221; to help me protect my own rights so I do it on my own. I don&#8217;t rely on CPP - I&#8217;m doing my own RSPs with mutual funds and will be getting into stocks soon.</p>
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		<title>By: Anne Faulkner</title>
		<link>http://www.jeffkee.com/hot-issues/hot-issue-vancouver-bc-homeless-people/#comment-32344</link>
		<dc:creator>Anne Faulkner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>btw.. In anticipation of your response "it'll never happen to _me_, I'm smarter and better prepared.."

You just hold that thought pumpkin..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>btw.. In anticipation of your response &#8220;it&#8217;ll never happen to _me_, I&#8217;m smarter and better prepared..&#8221;</p>
<p>You just hold that thought pumpkin..</p>
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		<title>By: Anne Faulkner</title>
		<link>http://www.jeffkee.com/hot-issues/hot-issue-vancouver-bc-homeless-people/#comment-32342</link>
		<dc:creator>Anne Faulkner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jeff,

What does your comment have to do with Kim's situation at the time?  Where you "there"?  Did you attend at offices with her when all she got were sneers?  Her benefits, such as they were, ran out.. if you are as aware of the system as you state, then you know that once your benefits ran out and you can't work you are told "by the system" to apply for Welfare if you are disabled - which she "was".. some people really "are" disabled you know..

I can only hope for you that you do not ever find yourself in the situation Kim did.. because you will die.. and denial of access to basic medical care will be done with a "smile" - as evidenced by your attitude which is, I might add, "fully" supported by the BC government, who found Kim's staph infection which was acquired in a BC government funded hospital little more than "amusing" whine by one more piece of riff raff.

You really are a jerk.. and in point of fact?  I do hope that you are someday subjected to the same treatment she was.. and die being denied food.. and then, run into the same kind of support your arrogant lack of education in these matters provides.  It'll look good on you..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jeff,</p>
<p>What does your comment have to do with Kim&#8217;s situation at the time?  Where you &#8220;there&#8221;?  Did you attend at offices with her when all she got were sneers?  Her benefits, such as they were, ran out.. if you are as aware of the system as you state, then you know that once your benefits ran out and you can&#8217;t work you are told &#8220;by the system&#8221; to apply for Welfare if you are disabled - which she &#8220;was&#8221;.. some people really &#8220;are&#8221; disabled you know..</p>
<p>I can only hope for you that you do not ever find yourself in the situation Kim did.. because you will die.. and denial of access to basic medical care will be done with a &#8220;smile&#8221; - as evidenced by your attitude which is, I might add, &#8220;fully&#8221; supported by the BC government, who found Kim&#8217;s staph infection which was acquired in a BC government funded hospital little more than &#8220;amusing&#8221; whine by one more piece of riff raff.</p>
<p>You really are a jerk.. and in point of fact?  I do hope that you are someday subjected to the same treatment she was.. and die being denied food.. and then, run into the same kind of support your arrogant lack of education in these matters provides.  It&#8217;ll look good on you..</p>
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