Too Simple An Idea Henry...It Won't Fly At Silly Hall

Henry you have to understand something.....Silly Hall doesn't spend money to solve problems but rather to stimulate cottage industries where their social in-activist buddies get a priority place at the public trough.

Spend that $5 million on city's panhandlers TheStar.com - comment - Spend that $5 million on city's panhandlers

May 11, 2008

Re:Housing is only partial

answer to panhandling

Column, May 8

According to Royson James, the city is going to hire 48 new social workers at $5 million per year to help stop street begging. What exactly are they going to do for about $105,000 each per year?

I wasn't aware that social work paid that well.

Perhaps we would be farther ahead if we simply gave that money directly to the street people. They would not have to beg and they would have disposable income to spend as they wish.

After all, as I read it, this money is not going to them. It will be going to another group of highly paid people, who in turn will be directed to try and get these people to stop begging.

As I said in the first place, why not simply distribute this same $5 million to them in the first place?

It would stimulate the economy because the homeless would simply spend it. And isn't that what the economists are all advocating?

Henry Basskin, Toronto