Thank-you - the team that worked on this documentary, the people who gave their time and are speaking out, who are trying to be honest about what is happening, Mary Walsh - your sincere and intelligent energy, Bert Deveaux,and all of you. ... this has to get moving!
That 9 years old child, crying for her mother while reading the words written to encourage her and give her back some happiness; those tears pour your heart in tears again, powerless to resist the pain she cannot deal with for her mother. That picture is the shape of her mother's heart, at loss, vulnerable as a child is when is helpless, and struggling to make her way through decisions of an adult, mature, wise and decisive to ensure her own children the basic needs and the security they need. It takes this much for a child to helplessly cry for her mother as a token of love to inspire her mother with courage and hope and secure with the certainty that she is not alone in her pain nor when she cries alone. This is the image of how childhood comes to its end, and prematurely a child is broken into the adulthood and the grey colors of the real life. This is how dreams are emptied of richer meanings while limitted to a survival purpose amd sense. This is how a child stops dreaming making room for the nightmares to cloud the vision about future and life.
Sadly Canadians are so mindlessly complacent we sit down for everything and stand for nothing. The poor fall down and get kicked until we can't get back up - this film is my life story. As well for me it is ironic that CUPE was a supporter. I worked at StatsCan and under the collective agreement I was not allowed to work more than 20 hours a week. They would cut hours whenever they wanted and we got exposed to asbestos on the job. I never found out until years afterwards and now WSIB seems to have closed the claim. Unions in this country are no longer the answer they are part of the problem.
There should be an people’s organization focussed on poverty issues in Canada. We are taxed to death with. The government makes it impossible to get out of poverty.
I really like Mary Walsh for doing something like this. I didn't grow up Poor, I came from a good family, had everything I needed and more, lived in a ten room house. because I was born with a disability as an adult I'm below the poverty line. I will never have adequate employment, I fought for jobs and got screwed around for years. I been working in the same job for 4 years but it's part time and will never be changed. Around here people with disabilities have been shifted to the welfare system 16 years ago, which means we have basically welfare money if we don't have a paid job. Alot of us work for free because employers do not want to pay us money. If you have a developmental disability the goverment will shell out market rents for them, if you have a physical disability you have to live in a cheap place unless you have someone to financially support you. I'm living in a risky place because I can't afford any better even though I do have employment. We spent 3 years trying to advocate for higher rental allowances so those of us that needed a safe place to live could. That blew up in our face, I'm getting older, my disability is getting worse each passing year and I'm scared for my life because of how I'm forced to live. And the only good thing is that at least disability welfare pays for very minimum basics in health.
still the same boat accept now 7 years in the same job so that's something and threatening the Government was able to move just over a year and a half ago
Thank you Mary for holding their feet to the fire. NOTHING has gotten any better. The middle class is no more. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Say it like it is.
Greed is like a drug habit~ you NEVER can get enough~ Personally, I don't understand it~ when you have a billion or even a million dollars and still have a hunger for more money? WTF? I don't think I could even spend that much money for the rest of my lifetime~ I could live very happily and comfortably with 100,000 a year.
Canada is a great place... I have friends who fall into the 'poor' category and sometimes people just want to complain . Their rent is subsidized.. They pay a quarter of my rent for the exact townhouse next-door to mine. Subsidized daycare means i literally pay $65 per day for two small children and my neighbor pays .50 cent s a day ($12.50 per month). They have access to food banks that are open during the day when we work. And we do have free medical .Oh, and they can't own a nice car, due to asset limits, but they sure as hell leased one. They certainly aren't rich, but they should be thanking god every day that they were born in this country and not,say, in the poor regions of India
+Amy Siddall Yep. Your anecdote is definitely more valuable than the assessment of the UNITED NATIONS. "You could be living in a slum in India" is a real compassionate response. Try selling that line about how Canada is better than India to a homeless person in the dead of winter.
+zammmerjammer , You said it what i intended to say, Amy siddall i don't know which world you live calling it a great place. If i will write about this great place i'd need pages and pages. Canada is just a betray ...which looks attractive only from slums of India , nothing else.
You obviously never needed to go to a food bank. Food banks do not provide an adequate amount of food or adequate diet. Your comment reeks of hate and judgment. Why don't you offer your struggling neighbors to buy them groceries or offer to watch their kids instead of bitching about how ungrateful they are? Be part of the solution and not the problem!
I hear what you're saying, in the sense that they do have help, but at the same time they're restricted to having a decent future for themselves and their kids. You're complaining that they don't pay as much as you and still lease that car, but odds are to get that "privilege" they have nothing to look forward to. Canada is great, we do have great opportunities, and are very lucky in comparison to most. But that doesn't mean that we aren't still being taken advantage of by the rich of our country (especially the poor) because they have the power to keep themselves rich and do so by keeping us poor. th-cam.com/video/QPKKQnijnsM/w-d-xo.html This video gives you an idea of how rich people are, and also how few there are of these rich people. And it's these people who control us. It talks about America, but as much as we don't want to believe it, we aren't that much better in these statistics.
Many companies in the states no longer offer pensions now you are expected to save in a 401k for your retirement. The company I worked for had full-time and part-time employees doing the same job I worked was considered full-time so I got the benefits and $2 more an hour plus vacation and holiday time a person considered part-time could work 40 hours but they got no benefits and less pay per hour
Poverty in Canada - is not at all known in Europe - was absolutely new for me as European historian - all the inventions and computer games and banks are for nothing, one has to save the basics!
Poor woman. Clean houses. I made a lot of money doing that and u can be there when the kids come home from school. I loved it. Wish I was still doing it. Can't work anymore. But it was great.
Can anyone even imagine what it would be like to have Sweden's system in Canada or the US?! It is inconceivable! we would have a happy country where people are taken care of and the role of the government is to create the society that the people want for themselves. The US government is so corrupt and so in the pocket of the big corporations, it's an embarassment and a crime.
Song? Mary weeping and Martha moaning? Corporate Corporations Army ? Pharmacy? distributions? please join N.D.W.A. 2018 today Equal Rights for All. Thanks. Mary for this documentary.
Excellent documentary. It seems the Swedish Model has created mutual respect and a sense of public responsibility. We the people are the only ones who can make this change happen. The haves of business & government intentionally divide and distract us with daily survival struggles, or into little interest groups or with entertainment to keep everyone in control so they can continue on their merry way of high profits on the backs of those who do the work. Anyone heard of Profit Sharing? The rich are riding the precarious stagecoach and will push anyone under the wheels to stay on top. I agree with the Swedes...taxes are a good thing, as long as they are administered correctly: Childcare, Education, Health Care, Food Security (support for our farmers and food distribution for all), and Housing. Cover the bases and the population will be healthy, happy and good workers, therefore...good taxpayers...and all the other stuff falls into place. Crime rates, family violence, women & children in poverty etc....would go down. It is really "a no brainer." The people must demand this ...TOGETHER and not fall for the divide & conquer strategy that is working so well to their benefit.
God bless you "Molly Maguire" for being brave enough to speak the truth. That over paid LCBO arse makes me want to learn home brew.. Lived this life in the early 90's right before they declared all out war on the poor....sucked pretty bad then, must be hell now, thanks for covering this.
I've studied Early childhood education but can't find a job in Quebec. but I'll still have to pay back this loan for the next 10 years. and who will help me move to a region where I can work? Also, this diploma is only good for Quebec.
I seems the world is very much the same wherever you go ... There's no such thing as a 'Utopia' Just a dream ... However I think the people on this planet still have a future
+Borat Erali Nazarbayev ...check out Sweden where labour, govt & business work together for the best possible for their population. They do not have working poor in their society. It's called a social democratic govt, precisely what Canada needs to solve our inequality problems. & they have very strong unions.
The government needs to start investing in social programs, first step hands down. If everyone was born into functional healthy home, poverty efforts may be preventable then reactionary. Because it's reactionary and if the need for help increases due to conservative economic policies, social workers will spend all their time trying to feed the hungry instead of planning for methods to get help people back into stability. The family is such a primary fundamental unit of society, that when it breaks down... it creates generations of poverty to come. Those kids who grow up in those homes don't know any better, they do what their parents did, and it's not right to tell them that they can't have kids and a family of their own...sometimes you end with a unplanned child anyways and not everyone feel it's right to choose abortion... We need to live as a society, not as individuals. We need to understand that everyone's actions today will affect the possibilities of tomorrow's generation. For every child who grows up without proper care, it will end up costing so much more for society when that child becomes a dysfunctional adult. Not everyone can be entrepreneurs with competitive spirit and vision, as well willing to take risks. Some people rely on businesses to support their living. When these big business goes under, they need to be responsible and held accountable. Not close down and say sorry, bye, take off with the last of the profits. Disadvantaged people should not be given the message that their better off dead and forgotten. The fact that they are alive means that they are capable of doing something! They have the same right to live like everyone else has. We need to create a sustainable system with "human life" being the product. And a lifecycle that provides people to find places they can belong in and generate true value.
_'...capitalism [...] but with a friendly face and a helping hand.'_ Mary still crackin' the jokes even in such a maudlin documentary! I like the overall sentiment, though I wish perhaps they looked at Ikea a little more critically, albeit briefly.
Regarding Mail, Super mail boxes as opposed to household mail boxes. I am a resident of NE Calgary, i live on a dual cul de sac we have a super mail box with two fair sized slot's between three mail compartment's, We also in this community have a very Efficient regularly picked up Recycle Program. What I do not understand, is why? a fair number of my neighbour's will not take there unwanted mail re: Flyer's, etc. and place there unwanted mail in there own recycle bins as opposed to the two slots between mail compartment's ending on the ground frozen and or flying in the air where it does not belong. I just don't know why some people are so lame brained. We do not own this planet!! There will be many other's ( People ) who come after we are gone!!!. Why??? Be So Selfish !!!.
Lucky me, I don't have to go through the arduous process of standing in line for free money and food. Instead I have to work long hours and stress out about meeting sales goals.
There needs to be more focus on minimum wage and the raising of the minimum wage, for that is the reason two working parents cannot make ends meet, to feed clothe and provide a roof over the heads of the family. The media plays on the emotions of the public by suggesting that the children are living in poverty. These children have parents that work at minimum wage jobs, that is why the children are living in poverty. A Fair Living Wage!!!
Kathleen Atkinson . 100%, also stopping big companies having anything to do with politics. Companies are all about profit and will send the blue collars to live in the dirt just to squeeze a bit more profit out of the situation.
I would suggest the minimum wage goes hand in hand with education on how to manage money. Easy credit may be overwhelming the bank and regulators fault, but every person has a responsibility to make sure they live within means, don't use credit for furniture, cars, groceries, eating out, etc. A lot of the middle class live well above their means.... It is almost as if they think because they can charge a meal to their credit card they can have it, when in fact they spend more than they earn and somehow don't rationally understand that that is a the major issue with bankruptcy/homelessness/poverty.
Kathleen Atkinson what about the situation where minimum wage goes up and companies have to lay off workers because they can no longer afford the wage wage?. Or they have to get rid of the experienced workers or at a high rate of pay just to be able to afford the newcomers to the company? What about the small businesses in communities that care about youth and simply want to give them job experience but can no longer do it because they have to pay more for them? What about the companies that will go out of business because of a higher minimum wage and all its employees lose their jobs? What about a free market?
It’s funny. This year, 2019, the Canadian government decided to raise the minimum wage to help lower income families. What happened as a result: -people’s hours are getting cut -companies are raising their prices to make ends meet -people are getting layed off so that companies can try and make ends meet -people are still struggling to make ends meet and many people are now out of work and many companies cannot afford to give people jobs because they themselves (the companies) are losing money. What is happening and will it get fixed?
starwars1744 problems is companies don’t want to cut into their profit margins. Every major company makes huge dollars . They don’t have an excuse to shell out money. The moms and pops shops are the ones critically hit . Cost of living goes up but wages stay stagnant.
For as long workers work for an employer they are "modern slaves" and subject to exploitation. Thus, the only way to put an end to slavery, we should adopt the concept of "Commonwealth", as never applied before. I think I found the solution to the problem: I reason that for as long workers work for an employer they are "modern slaves" and subject to exploitation. - Thus, the only way to put an end to slavery, we should adopt the concept of "Commonwealth", as never applied before. Here's an example of it: a talented entrepreneurs enjoys the challenge to create a successful business. He then sells it to his employees, who then become owners; i.e. don't depend anymore on unions and low wages. The entrepreneur gets his money back with some extra bonus and starts a new venture... and again selling it to his employees etc. and every time the entrepreneur gets his money back with some extra and starts an even bigger venture... Gradually, most of us will become self-employed business owners! If then the more greedy ones own more, the less greedy ones won't envy them as much. Imagine how proud an entrepreneur then could be after having turned 3000 low wage earners into well to do business owners! So, why it is not happening? Because most (if not all) talented entrepreneurs suffer from sordid greed! Do they really believe that only their talents deserve all the materialistic riches in our world? Those of them who believe this failed to dismantle their inherited/ or environmentally acquired negative traits and thus, turn materialists to compensate the the loss of exchange of virtues in true love, by atempting to "force/buy" it. Are they not worried that their grossly selfish behavior in the long run might ignite yet another massive "Kristallnacht" type revolt? The fact, only few materialists seem to know, dare or dare to acknowledge, is that their intrinsic/ acquired materialistic, sordid possessiveness is a flawed fixation from which they hope to buy all the worldly happiness. In most cases they either suffered a cruel childhood or lack emotionally creative talents. Thus, their meaning of life is rather based on mutual exploitation than on exchange of virtues. Since they lack compassion, they totally ignore the suffering of fellow citizens, due to lack of basic commodities. To them their suffering merely offers them even greater opportunities for exploitation. That type of capitalist ideology is of course unsustainable and invariably leads to social unrest and chaos. In stark contrast stands a person, who enjoyed a wonderful, early childhood (like some noble capitalists & me), because they grasp the true meaning of life, in which they aim to continue to fulfill their ancestor's mission, in which they long to enjoy highest-possible,lasting innermost contentment. Isn't this what we really all long for? To achieve it, our capitalist system needs to firstly provide, basic, materialistic security to all citizens and then teach them the difference between once "wants and needs", as well as the true meaning of life. Most progressive countries introduced a social safety net, which is a positive step into the right direction. It offers the unemployed (even the lost & lazy) basic means to "exist". Thus, there's nothing for us to envy them. I'm even in favor to allow them even a bit more social care, for it might teach them that society cares for their welfare. Yet, at the moment our sordid capitalist system offers them and working poor little hope and something has to done to revise and amend our capitalist ideology for the better or it will collapse. Personally, I "sordidly" managed to sort out my personal philosophical mess, even wrote and wrote a few books about. (see Lulu.com: "A Guide To Personal Contentment") - This explains why my materialistic needs are fairly basic; rather based on amassing emotional riches, such as emotional creativity. - Here's a bit of proof for it. It's a musical piece to which I perform my whistling to music: app.box.com/s/6f72eb90c2002db2e9fc
This documentary worth watching and I admire Sweden so much for their excellent social welfare policies and it is impossible to wish social welfare or anything to be running progressively positive in my country because our situation here is simply we are not democratic country or WE DO NOT HAVE VOICE HERE!! So we do not expect any positive change for the rest of my life here. Therefore, we will be poor for the rest of our life, having to live with worst distribution of wealth, bureaucracy in most of the "institutions", pity education standard and mountains of debts in our personal banks for survival and shamefully to say that we are just a small tiny country with rich economic resources, less than a million population AND still we live in a debt-bound society. What a shame... Anyway this video really open-up my eyes and the ideas are awesome! Thanks for this wake-up call video. I just have to use the word WE because I know there are people in my country are not satisfy with our system.
Welcome to the dog eat dog world we live in. Unless governments make it worth the investment to build business or investment in Canada it will get worse. We have a country that workers are saying it is not worth working in. Also business people saying we have a country that is not worth investing or run a business in. Solving one of the problems will build a better Canada for both.
Ok. So I did a quick google search on Waterford. The company had been sinking in debt for several years. Serious debt. No profits for nearly seven years. Perhaps they could have been more transparent with their employees about the financial status of the company. But I am questioning why the employees believed they had a right to continue to work at a company which could no longer compete (apparently tastes have shifted--people want light, cheap, and trendy glass) and could no longer finance a slower death? I think that part of the problem lies in the assumption that once a job is secured it will remain secure no matter what. Unionization is not protection against a company going bankrupt. And it doesn't seem like the board was siphoning of profits. From The Hamilton Spectator "...Irish publishing magnate Tony O’Reilly and his brother-in-law Peter Goulandris. The pair personally invested more than 400 million euros to keep the company afloat in recent years - and today own more than half of Waterford Wedgwood’s virtually worthless stock." Perhaps a failure to adapt to new markets, recognize shifting demographics, and address the Great Recession indicators are to blame rather than "greedy corporations" at least in this case.
The automobile took people away from their birthplaces and homesteads looking for the American/Canadian dream and losing their heart soul along the way ending up in places where nobody really cares about them.
I hope they have changed the full time classification by now in NFLD....40 hrs is too high and clearly punitive for employer and employee.....this is quite an expose for whole country as well as Nfld.
The swedish is great indeed. Unfortunately, you cannot sustain it forever (you would need to have guaranteed growth, cut benefits or raise the taxes even more). It is also not true that all the people love paying taxes. Talking about Ikea: the founder family, has settled in Switzerland, a long time ago. 45 Billions on which you won't see taxes in Sweden.
Guessing this is an old documtary given recent events high taxes and great benefits work when people are all on the same page fails when people decide they don't want to work and still get the same benefits or when people arrive to put a strain on all the generous benefits. Also I read somewhere that Sweden has gone fro being a country with low sex crime rates to now being one of the highest in sacndinavia
Sam da Silva yes Sweden used to be a sought after safe place to live not now due to the high uncontrolled immigration. Same here in UK it’s out of control there are more people living in London than there is living in CANADA. Think of the whole of Canada squeezed into one city it’s unsustainable. London sets the mark for rest of UK and as it struggles on so do the rest of us. Now unskilled and illegal immigrants are moving further up north and the whole country is going downhill fast. I for one welcome skilled immigrants who benefit the country not unskilled and illegals. Here in UK we have enough british born who don’t want to work we can’t keep anymore. It’s like the world is going to just end
Vindheimar 2 ... more money from welfare, where there are no jobs. Contraception could be expensive. So why bother when you can get $$ for having a kid
History has repeated itself again because we became complacent and forgot what was fought for by our past generations. We have allowed this to happen. In my country I remember our crappy Prime Minister Gordon Brown deregulating the financial centers to attract massive investment into the city of London. This worked magically so the rich could easily get richer but the average working family have now become so poor that 2 full time working people can't keep up with the cost of living which caused so much stress parents were separating leaving the children without stability. In just the last 2 yrs homelessness has doubled and far worse is yet to come as most people fail to recognise how they have been cheated and had their wealth stolen from them by people who already have more money than they could ever need. This is the problem...these people want all of the wealth and will never lose a night's sleep while people who worked so hard to just stay afloat go silently to their deaths through starvation. Now they are criminalising the homeless and have nothing but contempt for the poor. People are dying on our streets and thugs are going around murdering the homeless people. We get nothing for becoming homeless which means no income support and no food stamps whatsoever as they also make it illegal to beg for money just to stave off actual starvation. The average life expectancy for a homeless person in the UK is just 43 yrs old whilst the government pays alcoholics and drug abusers and they give money to migrants along with a house. I believe this combined with Abrupt climate change will claim the lives of a billion people in the first half of this century alone. I have lost my job and with Covid19 the Wuhan virus I have pretty much zero chance of regaining my previous status as a hard working tax paying free agent.
The western world bought two horrible cons. One in 1913 on Jekyll Island and one was in 1980 when a doddering old, failed B actor said: "greed is good."
Hello there! I found this documentary only partly revealing , and unfortunately leaves out large parts of the underlying reality in both Sweden and Ireland. In the first place I never understand why N Americans almost compulsory head for Sweden , maybe this is because this system represents the most stark contrast to their own. I never understand why you would not do research in the Netherlands with an almost double as big gdp compared to Sweden and with a population of 17 milion about half of Canada's population. Or let's say Belgium or Germany or Austria. The socio economic parameters in Sweden as explained by some Swedes are only part of the reality.The consensus portrayed emanates from a culture where dissenting on these topics is taboo and will engender bullying or exclusion. Paying so much taxes results in lower spendable income , logically , and the gst or momps it is called in Sweden comes unavoidably at the end when a purchase is done , something like 23%. So what's left to embellish your life? I am from Netherlands and once intended to move to Sweden , but have done my homework for years, and decided not to move there.The cold logic by which they would appropriate my life savings through their wealth tax system sends chills down my spine. All with a soft spoken righteousness and of course the Canadians in precarious situation would feel elated there and who can blame them?There is a long dark side to Sweden when it comes to their touted egalitarism that even pervades into their cultural self annihilation , but they have been constantly subject to conformity so that none would ever openly cast any doubt, it 's just what they know , and they have been group tuned from their early years. But this goes beyond the topic , at the same time being symptomatic to the system. I feel you have to be born in Sweden to embrace this fluffy but cold reality , but for the N. American spirit who wants to excell and roam free it would end up in civil war. Well , the Swedes would probably reply that they are " very happy and satisfied and already are excelling or another doorslammer" It depends on the standard you use: When well educated professors from Uppsala University in Sweden tell me that if they want something nice for their life you should go to Ikea " that speaks more than volumes..( in my country Ikea is considered overpriced low rate tristesse)....very sad...Greetings from Netherlands , not perfect but wayyyy more balanced than Sweden and conducive to happiness. Please come and visit! Btw Netherlands sits almost top on the World Happiness Index , and they would always give authentic answers upon asking them about it , but check that out next time! The unworthy precariousness for the losers at the bottom , and probably for an ever growing basis , is the end result of the very N American " spirit" of enterpreneurship, and the God like status this " culture" incessantly has been attributing to the " winners" , where the same who suffer now , may be the same who smugly have been ridiculizing everything from the European continent for decades depraving the actual concept of " socialism" , at the same time not realizing they are laughing at themselves nor being able to describe what " socialism" actually stands for in all its diverse interpretations. This example in Sweden is the typical black white N. American view on the world leaving out the vast grey middle , that represents the greater part of reality , in this case a society with socialistic elements. Obviously Sweden is at the extreme end of the spectrum.
Solution: Reduce the CEO salary to reasonable level, All of the people should have the birth plan, cancel the benefit for the second child and later. If you complain Canada, it is the most lucky thing you can find anywhere is better than here. Work hard could make you life better.
There are other, bigger forces at play here. Those temp agency jobs are necessary and pay appropriately. The work they give is menial and requires no skill or education. You want to give benefits to these people? No! This business man, this is what motivates people to seek education and enhance their skills! This video is wrong on so many levels?
Get rid of all freebies u give illegal immigrants the people born here comes first this is what is draining our system people who aren't born here its not right it's outrage
What’s draining the funds is the lack of financial accountability of major government corporations. Piss poor planning and execution . Wages of upper management who are complete liabilities. These are millions of Tax dollars burned every year. Also many local citizens are generational welfare recipients. So get your head of the stand getting off disability you fat pig and get to work
1.Social downfall follows when fragments of a society are convinced they're victimized by rich and powerful corporations. 2. Governments are mere regulators, not father figures who will fix all problems. Governments don't have money. It's the citizens' money. 3. Salaries and hourly pay must be regulated by the free market. If one want to make more money, then one must be more marketable. Education and new skills are key. 4. We only have one life. We only have one body, so pay more attention to what you feed into it. 5. Personal responsibility and accountability must be considered before believing someone is taking advantage of you.
at one time there was no free money no shelters for people,no food banks and now there is so much help out there!!first world problems!!!We are not dirt poor,cel phones,computers,games,entertainment .....ect!!people act like they are so hard up!!manage your money stop popping out kids and work hard!! harden up people and stop complaining
They talk about the Sweden model like it's so great. They don't discuss any of the negatives. What about the Smart Ones that create new businesses therefore creating new jobs? If they are taxed so much they lose freedom to grow and become something greater. The general population will be content living in their cozy lifestyle but not realizing they've lost all their power to do anything else at all. And what happens if something goes wrong in the economy? It seems the people have lost their power to do anything other than to complain about minor issues.
Everyone is picking on the rich for using tax havens and that they making so many billions of dollars in profits. Instead of focusing on what the rich aren't doing for those in either poverty or in middle class, people should be asking what are the rich doing and how can we teach those in middle class and poverty how to do what the rich do?
It is so hard to see children suffering from poverty. Mary Walsh did a fantastic job!
Thank-you - the team that worked on this documentary, the people who gave their time and are speaking out, who are trying to be honest about what is happening, Mary Walsh - your sincere and intelligent energy, Bert Deveaux,and all of you. ... this has to get moving!
Thank God someone has finally got a blog for us to express our concern and our experiences about living in poverty.
Oh that poor sweet little girl who made the card for her mother - and such a well drawn card! What a beautiful caring girl!
I'm crying like a BABY at that little girl reading the card she made for her mom!!!
Me too.
Wow. This documentary really opens your eyes.
Thank you for posting this video. I find this incredibly valuable as someone taking social service worker classes.
This is still an excellent show. Thank you.
Tax havens and the unlimited greed of the wealthy make me so damn angry.
That 9 years old child, crying for her mother while reading the words written to encourage her and give her back some happiness; those tears pour your heart in tears again, powerless to resist the pain she cannot deal with for her mother.
That picture is the shape of her mother's heart, at loss, vulnerable as a child is when is helpless, and struggling to make her way through decisions of an adult, mature, wise and decisive to ensure her own children the basic needs and the security they need.
It takes this much for a child to helplessly cry for her mother as a token of love to inspire her mother with courage and hope and secure with the certainty that she is not alone in her pain nor when she cries alone.
This is the image of how childhood comes to its end, and prematurely a child is broken into the adulthood and the grey colors of the real life. This is how dreams are emptied of richer meanings while limitted to a survival purpose amd sense. This is how a child stops dreaming making room for the nightmares to cloud the vision about future and life.
Where is the father?
The best doc I've seen in years. If only we could be more like Sweden we'd be a much better and happier country.
Sadly Canadians are so mindlessly complacent we sit down for everything and stand for nothing. The poor fall down and get kicked until we can't get back up - this film is my life story. As well for me it is ironic that CUPE was a supporter. I worked at StatsCan and under the collective agreement I was not allowed to work more than 20 hours a week. They would cut hours whenever they wanted and we got exposed to asbestos on the job. I never found out until years afterwards and now WSIB seems to have closed the claim. Unions in this country are no longer the answer they are part of the problem.
There should be an people’s organization focussed on poverty issues in Canada. We are taxed to death with. The government makes it impossible to get out of poverty.
I'm mind blown. I thought Canada has free health care? I used to think Canada was so perfect.
+Britttany Ellison everything is free in Canada, that's why guys never get laid there
chloweful so why did no one in the documentary raise the question of the welfare state as a downward spiraling system?
I really like Mary Walsh for doing something like this. I didn't grow up Poor, I came from a good family, had everything I needed and more, lived in a ten room house. because I was born with a disability as an adult I'm below the poverty line. I will never have adequate employment, I fought for jobs and got screwed around for years. I been working in the same job for 4 years but it's part time and will never be changed. Around here people with disabilities have been shifted to the welfare system 16 years ago, which means we have basically welfare money if we don't have a paid job. Alot of us work for free because employers do not want to pay us money. If you have a developmental disability the goverment will shell out market rents for them, if you have a physical disability you have to live in a cheap place unless you have someone to financially support you. I'm living in a risky place because I can't afford any better even though I do have employment. We spent 3 years trying to advocate for higher rental allowances so those of us that needed a safe place to live could. That blew up in our face, I'm getting older, my disability is getting worse each passing year and I'm scared for my life because of how I'm forced to live. And the only good thing is that at least disability welfare pays for very minimum basics in health.
Gia Miller how are you doing now??
still the same boat accept now 7 years in the same job so that's something and threatening the Government was able to move just over a year and a half ago
Thank you Mary for holding their feet to the fire. NOTHING has gotten any better. The middle class is no more. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Say it like it is.
Greed is like a drug habit~ you NEVER can get enough~ Personally, I don't understand it~ when you have a billion or even a million dollars and still have a hunger for more money? WTF? I don't think I could even spend that much money for the rest of my lifetime~ I could live very happily and comfortably with 100,000 a year.
What's happening in Canada makes me sad. And angry. This needs to change.
Isn't funny that we are watching a documentary about Equality and its not captioned
That's it, I'm moving to Sweden. Damn!!
Canada is a great place... I have friends who fall into the 'poor' category and sometimes people just want to complain . Their rent is subsidized.. They pay a quarter of my rent for the exact townhouse next-door to mine. Subsidized daycare means i literally pay $65 per day for two small children and my neighbor pays .50 cent s a day ($12.50 per month). They have access to food banks that are open during the day when we work. And we do have free medical .Oh, and they can't own a nice car, due to asset limits, but they sure as hell leased one. They certainly aren't rich, but they should be thanking god every day that they were born in this country and not,say, in the poor regions of India
+Amy Siddall Yep. Your anecdote is definitely more valuable than the assessment of the UNITED NATIONS. "You could be living in a slum in India" is a real compassionate response. Try selling that line about how Canada is better than India to a homeless person in the dead of winter.
+zammmerjammer , You said it what i intended to say, Amy siddall i don't know which world you live calling it a great place. If i will write about this great place i'd need pages and pages. Canada is just a betray ...which looks attractive only from slums of India , nothing else.
nad.. if canada doesn't meet your standards LEAVE and good riddance
You obviously never needed to go to a food bank. Food banks do not provide an adequate amount of food or adequate diet. Your comment reeks of hate and judgment. Why don't you offer your struggling neighbors to buy them groceries or offer to watch their kids instead of bitching about how ungrateful they are? Be part of the solution and not the problem!
I hear what you're saying, in the sense that they do have help, but at the same time they're restricted to having a decent future for themselves and their kids. You're complaining that they don't pay as much as you and still lease that car, but odds are to get that "privilege" they have nothing to look forward to. Canada is great, we do have great opportunities, and are very lucky in comparison to most. But that doesn't mean that we aren't still being taken advantage of by the rich of our country (especially the poor) because they have the power to keep themselves rich and do so by keeping us poor.
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This video gives you an idea of how rich people are, and also how few there are of these rich people. And it's these people who control us. It talks about America, but as much as we don't want to believe it, we aren't that much better in these statistics.
Many companies in the states no longer offer pensions now you are expected to save in a 401k for your retirement. The company I worked for had full-time and part-time employees doing the same job I worked was considered full-time so I got the benefits and $2 more an hour plus vacation and holiday time a person considered part-time could work 40 hours but they got no benefits and less pay per hour
If it didn't get so cold in Canada, I would go live there.
Poverty in Canada - is not at all known in Europe - was absolutely new for me as European historian - all the inventions and computer games and banks are for nothing, one has to save the basics!
regarding Poor no More why don't you CBC put this on our Station.
2:41 great point drowned out with background sound
Nice Work!
wow!!! this is eye-opening...
nothing will change its the same in Britain and getting worse every day!
Excellent documentary!
Poor woman. Clean houses. I made a lot of money doing that and u can be there when the kids come home from school. I loved it. Wish I was still doing it. Can't work anymore. But it was great.
God love ya Mary!
Can anyone even imagine what it would be like to have Sweden's system in Canada or the US?! It is inconceivable! we would have a happy country where people are taken care of and the role of the government is to create the society that the people want for themselves. The US government is so corrupt and so in the pocket of the big corporations, it's an embarassment and a crime.
Song? Mary weeping and Martha moaning? Corporate Corporations Army ? Pharmacy? distributions? please join N.D.W.A. 2018 today Equal Rights for All. Thanks. Mary for this documentary.
Seems this is the "Brave New World" promised by Winston Churchill....Crazy!
together we will advance Canadians right to benefits,
Excellent documentary. It seems the Swedish Model has created mutual respect and a sense of public responsibility. We the people are the only ones who can make this change happen. The haves of business & government intentionally divide and distract us with daily survival struggles, or into little interest groups or with entertainment to keep everyone in control so they can continue on their merry way of high profits on the backs of those who do the work. Anyone heard of Profit Sharing? The rich are riding the precarious stagecoach and will push anyone under the wheels to stay on top. I agree with the Swedes...taxes are a good thing, as long as they are administered correctly: Childcare, Education, Health Care, Food Security (support for our farmers and food distribution for all), and Housing. Cover the bases and the population will be healthy, happy and good workers, therefore...good taxpayers...and all the other stuff falls into place. Crime rates, family violence, women & children in poverty etc....would go down.
It is really "a no brainer."
The people must demand this ...TOGETHER and not fall for the divide & conquer strategy that is working so well to their benefit.
Employers in Canada are very difficult to work for. They contribute to a lot of mental health issues in Canada and it’s getting worse.
Geezers what a rude an awful guy that she confronted about the employees salary. I hope Karma bites his ass bad
He will be mulch in some years...
I agree but walking into someone's office with a camera crew uninvited is a bit unreasonable
God bless you "Molly Maguire" for being brave enough to speak the truth. That over paid LCBO arse makes me want to learn home brew.. Lived this life in the early 90's right before they declared all out war on the poor....sucked pretty bad then, must be hell now, thanks for covering this.
People. Keep. Making. More. ..babies
I've studied Early childhood education but can't find a job in Quebec. but I'll still have to pay back this loan for the next 10 years. and who will help me move to a region where I can work? Also, this diploma is only good for Quebec.
I seems the world is very much the same wherever you go ... There's no such thing as a 'Utopia' Just a dream ... However I think the people on this planet still have a future
+Borat Erali Nazarbayev ...check out Sweden where labour, govt & business work together for the best possible for their population. They do not have working poor in their society. It's called a social democratic govt, precisely what Canada needs to solve our inequality problems. & they have very strong unions.
Witness the Harper government's legacy.
Only the workers organized as the ruling class can crush the enemies of the people.
The governments of the world make me sick. It’s like catastrophe after catastrophe. How much more can people take!!
The government needs to start investing in social programs, first step hands down. If everyone was born into functional healthy home, poverty efforts may be preventable then reactionary. Because it's reactionary and if the need for help increases due to conservative economic policies, social workers will spend all their time trying to feed the hungry instead of planning for methods to get help people back into stability. The family is such a primary fundamental unit of society, that when it breaks down... it creates generations of poverty to come. Those kids who grow up in those homes don't know any better, they do what their parents did, and it's not right to tell them that they can't have kids and a family of their own...sometimes you end with a unplanned child anyways and not everyone feel it's right to choose abortion...
We need to live as a society, not as individuals. We need to understand that everyone's actions today will affect the possibilities of tomorrow's generation. For every child who grows up without proper care, it will end up costing so much more for society when that child becomes a dysfunctional adult.
Not everyone can be entrepreneurs with competitive spirit and vision, as well willing to take risks. Some people rely on businesses to support their living. When these big business goes under, they need to be responsible and held accountable. Not close down and say sorry, bye, take off with the last of the profits.
Disadvantaged people should not be given the message that their better off dead and forgotten. The fact that they are alive means that they are capable of doing something! They have the same right to live like everyone else has.
We need to create a sustainable system with "human life" being the product. And a lifecycle that provides people to find places they can belong in and generate true value.
_'...capitalism [...] but with a friendly face and a helping hand.'_
Mary still crackin' the jokes even in such a maudlin documentary!
I like the overall sentiment, though I wish perhaps they looked at Ikea a little more critically, albeit briefly.
Does anyone know the name of the guy speaking at 16:42 ? I need to know for a research paper for class, thank you!
even the queen is having a hard time, shes taking in lodgers now
Oh please... She's the world's wealthiest woman!!
This is the face of capitalism. It operates on its bottom line. One solution is workers co-ops.
Regarding Mail, Super mail boxes as opposed to household mail boxes. I am a resident of NE Calgary, i live on a dual cul de sac we have a super mail box with two fair sized slot's between three mail compartment's, We also in this community have a very Efficient regularly picked up Recycle Program. What I do not understand, is why? a fair number of my neighbour's will not take there unwanted mail re: Flyer's, etc. and place there unwanted mail in there own recycle bins as opposed to the two slots between mail compartment's ending on the ground frozen and or flying in the air where it does not belong. I just don't know why some people are so lame brained. We do not own this planet!! There will be many other's ( People ) who come after we are gone!!!. Why??? Be So Selfish !!!.
while on welfare awaiting my odsp a welfare worker literally asked me to turn out my pockets!! the system is based on gaurding the money!!
+jangus894 sorry you were scrutinized to get other people's money for free
+fuggotry your pathetic comment is nothing but pure ignorance!
+fuggotry The major privilege of being rich is that you *don't* get scrutinized for getting public money. But you know all about that, dontcha?
zammmerjammer the public's money*
Lucky me, I don't have to go through the arduous process of standing in line for free money and food. Instead I have to work long hours and stress out about meeting sales goals.
There needs to be more focus on minimum wage and the raising of the minimum wage, for that is the reason two working parents cannot make ends meet, to feed clothe and provide a roof over the heads of the family. The media plays on the emotions of the public by suggesting that the children are living in poverty. These children have parents that work at minimum wage jobs, that is why the children are living in poverty. A Fair Living Wage!!!
Kathleen Atkinson . 100%, also stopping big companies having anything to do with politics.
Companies are all about profit and will send the blue collars to live in the dirt just to squeeze a bit more profit out of the situation.
capping the execs at 10 x the lowest paid worker....like Switzerland capped them 12x the lowest paid worker
Why don't you create jobs? Then you can pay your employees whatever you want.
I would suggest the minimum wage goes hand in hand with education on how to manage money. Easy credit may be overwhelming the bank and regulators fault, but every person has a responsibility to make sure they live within means, don't use credit for furniture, cars, groceries, eating out, etc. A lot of the middle class live well above their means.... It is almost as if they think because they can charge a meal to their credit card they can have it, when in fact they spend more than they earn and somehow don't rationally understand that that is a the major issue with bankruptcy/homelessness/poverty.
Kathleen Atkinson what about the situation where minimum wage goes up and companies have to lay off workers because they can no longer afford the wage wage?. Or they have to get rid of the experienced workers or at a high rate of pay just to be able to afford the newcomers to the company? What about the small businesses in communities that care about youth and simply want to give them job experience but can no longer do it because they have to pay more for them? What about the companies that will go out of business because of a higher minimum wage and all its employees lose their jobs? What about a free market?
strong union is one of the deliberate solution for solving the matter of social inequality.
Universal income. Now
Well peter you certainly don’t look guilty now do you
It’s funny. This year, 2019, the Canadian government decided to raise the minimum wage to help lower income families.
What happened as a result:
-people’s hours are getting cut
-companies are raising their prices to make ends meet
-people are getting layed off so that companies can try and make ends meet
-people are still struggling to make ends meet and many people are now out of work and many companies cannot afford to give people jobs because they themselves (the companies) are losing money.
What is happening and will it get fixed?
starwars1744 problems is companies don’t want to cut into their profit margins. Every major company makes huge dollars . They don’t have an excuse to shell out money. The moms and pops shops are the ones critically hit . Cost of living goes up but wages stay stagnant.
On my Tissue scale, Emma reading the card is a 10/10. Get it together Canada. What a shameful state. At least the LCBO dude has half a mill. Poor guy.
For as long workers work for an employer they are "modern slaves" and subject to exploitation. Thus, the only way to put an end to slavery, we should adopt the concept of "Commonwealth", as never applied before. I think I found the solution to the problem: I reason that for as long workers work for an employer they are "modern slaves" and subject to exploitation. - Thus, the only way to put an end to slavery, we should adopt the concept of "Commonwealth", as never applied before. Here's an example of it: a talented entrepreneurs enjoys the challenge to create a successful business. He then sells it to his employees, who then become owners; i.e. don't depend anymore on unions and low wages.
The entrepreneur gets his money back with some extra bonus and starts a new venture... and again selling it to his employees etc. and every time the entrepreneur gets his money back with some extra and starts an even bigger venture... Gradually, most of us will become self-employed business owners! If then the more greedy ones own more, the less greedy ones won't envy them as much. Imagine how proud an entrepreneur then could be after having turned 3000 low wage earners into well to do business owners!
So, why it is not happening? Because most (if not all) talented entrepreneurs suffer from sordid greed! Do they really believe that only their talents deserve all the materialistic riches in our world? Those of them who believe this failed to dismantle their inherited/ or environmentally acquired negative traits and thus, turn materialists to compensate the the loss of exchange of virtues in true love, by atempting to "force/buy" it.
Are they not worried that their grossly selfish behavior in the long run might ignite yet another massive "Kristallnacht" type revolt?
The fact, only few materialists seem to know, dare or dare to acknowledge, is that their intrinsic/ acquired materialistic, sordid possessiveness is a flawed fixation from which they hope to buy all the worldly happiness. In most cases they either suffered a cruel childhood or lack emotionally creative talents. Thus, their meaning of life is rather based on mutual exploitation than on exchange of virtues. Since they lack compassion, they totally ignore the suffering of fellow citizens, due to lack of basic commodities. To them their suffering merely offers them even greater opportunities for exploitation. That type of capitalist ideology is of course unsustainable and invariably leads to social unrest and chaos.
In stark contrast stands a person, who enjoyed a wonderful, early childhood (like some noble capitalists & me), because they grasp the true meaning of life, in which they aim to continue to fulfill their ancestor's mission, in which they long to enjoy highest-possible,lasting innermost contentment.
Isn't this what we really all long for?
To achieve it, our capitalist system needs to firstly provide, basic, materialistic security to all citizens and then teach them the difference between once "wants and needs", as well as the true meaning of life.
Most progressive countries introduced a social safety net, which is a positive step into the right direction. It offers the unemployed (even the lost & lazy) basic means to "exist". Thus, there's nothing for us to envy them. I'm even in favor to allow them even a bit more social care, for it might teach them that society cares for their welfare. Yet, at the moment our sordid capitalist system offers them and working poor little hope and something has to done to revise and amend our capitalist ideology for the better or it will collapse.
Personally, I "sordidly" managed to sort out my personal philosophical mess, even wrote and wrote a few books about. (see Lulu.com: "A Guide To Personal Contentment") - This explains why my materialistic needs are fairly basic; rather based on amassing emotional riches, such as emotional creativity. - Here's a bit of proof for it. It's a musical piece to which I perform my whistling to music:
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ay yooo to my peers from Sheridan College, Social policy class. ITZ THOMAS!!!! ;)
Oy. Got your assignment done?
TheNorthHawk yep! who r u btw? lol
mrbigtian Eric. But you won't know me, I don't come to class. Working on my assignment now :P
TheNorthHawk come to class some times man, is fun, trust me.
Taxes is ok only in a non corrupt governments
This documentary worth watching and I admire Sweden so much for their excellent social welfare policies and it is impossible to wish social welfare or anything to be running progressively positive in my country because our situation here is simply we are not democratic country or WE DO NOT HAVE VOICE HERE!! So we do not expect any positive change for the rest of my life here. Therefore, we will be poor for the rest of our life, having to live with worst distribution of wealth, bureaucracy in most of the "institutions", pity education standard and mountains of debts in our personal banks for survival and shamefully to say that we are just a small tiny country with rich economic resources, less than a million population AND still we live in a debt-bound society. What a shame... Anyway this video really open-up my eyes and the ideas are awesome! Thanks for this wake-up call video. I just have to use the word WE because I know there are people in my country are not satisfy with our system.
Welcome to the dog eat dog world we live in. Unless governments make it worth the investment to build business or investment in Canada it will get worse. We have a country that workers are saying it is not worth working in. Also business people saying we have a country that is not worth investing or run a business in. Solving one of the problems will build a better Canada for both.
If you are a business you need to pay taxes to the company you're doing your business in. Sounds simple.
Is there no better way of running a State?
Ok. So I did a quick google search on Waterford. The company had been sinking in debt for several years. Serious debt. No profits for nearly seven years. Perhaps they could have been more transparent with their employees about the financial status of the company. But I am questioning why the employees believed they had a right to continue to work at a company which could no longer compete (apparently tastes have shifted--people want light, cheap, and trendy glass) and could no longer finance a slower death? I think that part of the problem lies in the assumption that once a job is secured it will remain secure no matter what. Unionization is not protection against a company going bankrupt. And it doesn't seem like the board was siphoning of profits. From The Hamilton Spectator "...Irish publishing magnate Tony O’Reilly and his brother-in-law Peter Goulandris. The pair personally invested more than 400 million euros to keep the company afloat in recent years - and today own more than half of Waterford Wedgwood’s virtually worthless stock." Perhaps a failure to adapt to new markets, recognize shifting demographics, and address the Great Recession indicators are to blame rather than "greedy corporations" at least in this case.
Update this pain flicks otherwise they are obsoleye
why does that lady always count the most random shit on her fingers when she talks like shes not even counting anything
Since gold standard was eliminated and use debt base fiat currency.. Poeple can't get ahead...they keep us as debt slaves
The automobile took people away from their birthplaces and homesteads looking for the American/Canadian dream and losing their heart soul along the way ending up in places where nobody really cares about them.
Canadá unless is so well than another countries 😊😊
I hope they have changed the full time classification by now in NFLD....40 hrs is too high and clearly punitive for employer and employee.....this is quite an expose for whole country as well as Nfld.
The swedish is great indeed. Unfortunately, you cannot sustain it forever (you would need to have guaranteed growth, cut benefits or raise the taxes even more). It is also not true that all the people love paying taxes. Talking about Ikea: the founder family, has settled in Switzerland, a long time ago. 45 Billions on which you won't see taxes in Sweden.
Guessing this is an old documtary given recent events high taxes and great benefits work when people are all on the same page fails when people decide they don't want to work and still get the same benefits or when people arrive to put a strain on all the generous benefits. Also I read somewhere that Sweden has gone fro being a country with low sex crime rates to now being one of the highest in sacndinavia
Sam da Silva yes Sweden used to be a sought after safe place to live not now due to the high uncontrolled immigration. Same here in UK it’s out of control there are more people living in London than there is living in CANADA. Think of the whole of Canada squeezed into one city it’s unsustainable. London sets the mark for rest of UK and as it struggles on so do the rest of us. Now unskilled and illegal immigrants are moving further up north and the whole country is going downhill fast. I for one welcome skilled immigrants who benefit the country not unskilled and illegals. Here in UK we have enough british born who don’t want to work we can’t keep anymore. It’s like the world is going to just end
Same crap here in the United States. Going to be a whole lot of politicians in HELL.
how eles is here from SOCI 201
Those how those welfare workers are..they act like its coming out their pocket!!
why do ppl keeo on having children if they can not afford the once they have
Vindheimar 2 ... more money from welfare, where there are no jobs.
Contraception could be expensive. So why bother when you can get $$ for having a kid
Many have families while they are well off then become poor. You are so freaking ignorant. Shut up.
History has repeated itself again because we became complacent and forgot what was fought for by our past generations. We have allowed this to happen. In my country I remember our crappy Prime Minister Gordon Brown deregulating the financial centers to attract massive investment into the city of London. This worked magically so the rich could easily get richer but the average working family have now become so poor that 2 full time working people can't keep up with the cost of living which caused so much stress parents were separating leaving the children without stability. In just the last 2 yrs homelessness has doubled and far worse is yet to come as most people fail to recognise how they have been cheated and had their wealth stolen from them by people who already have more money than they could ever need. This is the problem...these people want all of the wealth and will never lose a night's sleep while people who worked so hard to just stay afloat go silently to their deaths through starvation. Now they are criminalising the homeless and have nothing but contempt for the poor. People are dying on our streets and thugs are going around murdering the homeless people. We get nothing for becoming homeless which means no income support and no food stamps whatsoever as they also make it illegal to beg for money just to stave off actual starvation. The average life expectancy for a homeless person in the UK is just 43 yrs old whilst the government pays alcoholics and drug abusers and they give money to migrants along with a house. I believe this combined with Abrupt climate change will claim the lives of a billion people in the first half of this century alone. I have lost my job and with Covid19 the Wuhan virus I have pretty much zero chance of regaining my previous status as a hard working tax paying free agent.
The western world bought two horrible cons. One in 1913 on Jekyll Island and one was in 1980 when a doddering old, failed B actor said: "greed is good."
Wasn't that Gordon Gekko's line from Wall Street?
@@CSGraves Reagan said it, too.
Sad that I was reluctant to believe Reagan could be so blatantly plutocratic. :-(
Winnipeg?
I will never apply for welfare again either. Absolutely criminal.
excuse me but, where is there,in the documentary?
Hello there! I found this documentary only partly revealing , and unfortunately leaves out large parts of the underlying reality in both Sweden and Ireland. In the first place I never understand why N Americans almost compulsory head for Sweden , maybe this is because this system represents the most stark contrast to their own. I never understand why you would not do research in the Netherlands with an almost double as big gdp compared to Sweden and with a population of 17 milion about half of Canada's population. Or let's say Belgium or Germany or Austria. The socio economic parameters in Sweden as explained by some Swedes are only part of the reality.The consensus portrayed emanates from a culture where dissenting on these topics is taboo and will engender bullying or exclusion. Paying so much taxes results in lower spendable income , logically , and the gst or momps it is called in Sweden comes unavoidably at the end when a purchase is done , something like 23%. So what's left to embellish your life? I am from Netherlands and once intended to move to Sweden , but have done my homework for years, and decided not to move there.The cold logic by which they would appropriate my life savings through their wealth tax system sends chills down my spine. All with a soft spoken righteousness and of course the Canadians in precarious situation would feel elated there and who can blame them?There is a long dark side to Sweden when it comes to their touted egalitarism that even pervades into their cultural self annihilation , but they have been constantly subject to conformity so that none would ever openly cast any doubt, it 's just what they know , and they have been group tuned from their early years.
But this goes beyond the topic , at the same time being symptomatic to the system. I feel you have to be born in Sweden to embrace this fluffy but cold reality , but for the N. American spirit who wants to excell and roam free it would end up in civil war. Well , the Swedes would probably reply that they are " very happy and satisfied and already are excelling or another doorslammer" It depends on the standard you use: When well educated professors from Uppsala University in Sweden tell me that if they want something nice for their life you should go to Ikea " that speaks more than volumes..( in my country Ikea is considered overpriced low rate tristesse)....very sad...Greetings from Netherlands , not perfect but wayyyy more balanced than Sweden and conducive to happiness. Please come and visit! Btw Netherlands sits almost top on the World Happiness Index , and they would always give authentic answers upon asking them about it , but check that out next time!
The unworthy precariousness for the losers at the bottom , and probably for an ever growing basis , is the end result of the very N American " spirit" of enterpreneurship, and the God like status this " culture" incessantly has been attributing to the " winners" , where the same who suffer now , may be the same who smugly have been ridiculizing everything from the European continent for decades depraving the actual concept of " socialism" , at the same time not realizing they are laughing at themselves nor being able to describe what " socialism" actually stands for in all its diverse interpretations.
This example in Sweden is the typical black white N. American view on the world leaving out the vast grey middle , that represents the greater part of reality , in this case a society with socialistic elements. Obviously Sweden is at the extreme end of the spectrum.
Solution: Reduce the CEO salary to reasonable level, All of the people should have the birth plan, cancel the benefit for the second child and later. If you complain Canada, it is the most lucky thing you can find anywhere is better than here. Work hard could make you life better.
Anome lew
Statism.
how many people live in sweden?? the size of one american large city, that system doesnt work for huge populations
There are other, bigger forces at play here. Those temp agency jobs are necessary and pay appropriately. The work they give is menial and requires no skill or education. You want to give benefits to these people? No! This business man, this is what motivates people to seek education and enhance their skills! This video is wrong on so many levels?
Get rid of all freebies u give illegal immigrants the people born here comes first this is what is draining our system people who aren't born here its not right it's outrage
What’s draining the funds is the lack of financial accountability of major government corporations. Piss poor planning and execution . Wages of upper management who are complete liabilities. These are millions of Tax dollars burned every year. Also many local citizens are generational welfare recipients. So get your head of the stand getting off disability you fat pig and get to work
People who not born here pay tax too
1.Social downfall follows when fragments of a society are convinced they're victimized by rich and powerful corporations.
2. Governments are mere regulators, not father figures who will fix all problems. Governments don't have money. It's the citizens' money.
3. Salaries and hourly pay must be regulated by the free market. If one want to make more money, then one must be more marketable. Education and new skills are key.
4. We only have one life. We only have one body, so pay more attention to what you feed into it.
5. Personal responsibility and accountability must be considered before believing someone is taking advantage of you.
Put in place LAW that protects The whistle Blowers. effectively! Written Laws ? New. Policies ? New leaders. legislation.
at one time there was no free money no shelters for people,no food banks and now there is so much help out there!!first world problems!!!We are not dirt poor,cel phones,computers,games,entertainment .....ect!!people act like they are so hard up!!manage your money stop popping out kids and work hard!! harden up people and stop complaining
They talk about the Sweden model like it's so great. They don't discuss any of the negatives. What about the Smart Ones that create new businesses therefore creating new jobs? If they are taxed so much they lose freedom to grow and become something greater. The general population will be content living in their cozy lifestyle but not realizing they've lost all their power to do anything else at all. And what happens if something goes wrong in the economy? It seems the people have lost their power to do anything other than to complain about minor issues.
What a desperate dope you are.
you notice that no one is fat?
untrue..I have noticed that the girl is clearly overweight...but these days that is a sign of malnourishment...
Global slow kill of the deprived. Sickeningly evil.
Third World Canada for some .😡
so stealing from people to pay for it all, no thank you!
Everyone is picking on the rich for using tax havens and that they making so many billions of dollars in profits. Instead of focusing on what the rich aren't doing for those in either poverty or in middle class, people should be asking what are the rich doing and how can we teach those in middle class and poverty how to do what the rich do?
Great idea!
Easy, non empathetic, be greedy, immoral and above all , worship the mighty dollar!!
L government
If you have the Jesus Christ in your life and USA People can help one another.
Christina! there is no god, people have to help each other and themselves.
Yes there is... I met him!
Krazy Train
So god is a man?....where is he now?
Well there's God and Jesus... And the holy ghost ;) complicated but doesn't matter.. Figure it out when Ur dead
The holy ghost is the trippy one
Why not find a different job when you know that they have no intention on hiring you full time? There are other jobs out there..
Obsolete