Saturday, June 4, 2011

Welfare Fraud

Welfare Fraud
Chris Carey wrote
Hudak says he wants to crackdown on healthcare and other social service fraud... Could this policy be one of guilty until proven innocent or criminalization of poverty? Chris
I wrote If we have a majority Conservative federal government with a majority
Conservative Provincial government we will see changes like we have never
seen before. These changes will hurt all that live in poverty. https://groups.google.com/group/odspfireside/browse_thread/thread/4edda991297615e1/d094c02238e0ccae?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=[odspfireside%3A+37049+]#d094c02238e0ccae

Finn wrote Our government isn't fighting poverty. Our government is fighting the
poor. https://groups.google.com/group/odspfireside/browse_thread/thread/4edda991297615e1/d094c02238e0ccae?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=[odspfireside%3A+37049+]#d094c02238e0ccae


If welfare fraud is such a small percent, what is really on the conservatives agenda?

Is welfare fraud?

Civil Disobedience

: refusal to obey laws as a way of forcing the government to do or change something
▪ In an act of civil disobedience, the family sent its tax money to an antiwar organization. ▪ A student organization is encouraging civil disobedience as a way to get the university to change its policies.
http://www.learnersdictionary.com/search/civil%20disobedience
Poetic Justice
poetic justice noun
: a result or occurrence that seems proper because someone who has done bad things to other people is being harmed or punished
▪ After the way he treated his staff, it was poetic justice that he lost his job.
Crime
An act or omission which is prohibited by criminal law and punished, usually by fine or imprisonment http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary/C/Crime.aspx
Or all of the above.
Ron Payne
Welfare Legal
Hamilton, Ontario