To the editor:
I want to thank Mark Hasiuk for this column. I especially liked the last half. I see too many able-bodied people simply refusing to work. They feel it's an entitlement that we take care of them. I certainly did not work only 40 hours per week, nor only one job to purchase my house in Vancouver. Why should they begrudge me or people like me who worked hard and saved to get to where I wanted to be financially?
And now, a large amount of taxpayers money has been wasted because of this. Where is this money going to come from? How about the very money that was slated for housing etc. I believe it should be user pay. Nothing comes for free.
So if you are on social assistance, you have to contribute something back (i.e.: community service etc). As your article infers, you can not have it both ways. It is time we became less socialist.
Mario Bakin, Vancouver
