Canadian Mutt Wants Government To Clean Up Their Waste Pile

Has the BC Government heard we are in very critical times? Yes, they know! I hear them babble ” lets cut this, trim the fat here and there”. What I want to know is did they trim the fat in personal expenditures. I will be the first to admit that administration costs for ministries are expensive, but I do take exception to excessive spending—- luxury spending.

My husband and I have run a family business for a number of years, and if we had to trim the fat, you can be assured he wouldn’t be dining clients, he wouldn’t make clients wait in line ups outside his doors, and he respond to clients in a timely matter with personal contact and care. All of this requires him to put an extra effort in, more work and less personal perk – socializing. The bottom line is he has to provide food and housing for us.

I would love to see the Liberal BC government’s personal perk tab, to see if they trimmed the fat there, before I accept cuts to some of the most needed programs- education, social assistance, housing for poor, mental health, and children. When spending in these programs have been trimmed to the point there is lean meat only. Crime increases, and health cost rise, do to the simple fact people can’t feed and house themselves properly.

The Liberal Government has been in power for how long now, but I still don’t see the 10 year health plan. I ‘ve wrote, Kevin Falcon, Minister of Health , numerous times since August 2009, ( 7 Months), but he has yet to personally email me, write nor call me on the phone. Then considering that the other ministers within his government have all done so in a timely and personal nature. Why haven’t you, Kevin Falcon? I can only assume that my concerns of mental health have no value to the BC Liberal government.

I would like to caution the Liberal Government of Canada, I remember how the people of Canada responded to the PC Party when they held the federal government and didn’t listen to the people. It’s the tax payers of BC that have you in Office and it is the tax payers that you are accountable to. So trim the fat if you must, just remember you can’t trim fat when the meat is already lean and raw.

Canadian Webb Of Doubleness-- TOO Costly For This Mutt

Social Assistance for the Mentally Ill. What a web of bureaucracy. At 16 my daughter was diagnosed with schizophrenia. A mental illness that isn’t curable, will not go away over time, needs to be medicated for life, and it will often be a very disabling mental illness.

Given these facts about schizophrenia I find the pathways to getting a Disability income for my daughter- ludicrous. The government plainly shows his lack of education, understanding, and compassion for these mentally ill people. The severe mentally ill people such as my daughter’s, will never be able to sustain an independent income; in other words she will have to depend on the government income. Did you know that in BC the school districts must fill out and complete proper documentation for persons with sever learning difficulties and handi-caps so that at age 18 they can receive a disability pension, but NOT for the server mentally ill??? What did the government forget about these poor souls?

My daughter must first apply for welfare, before she will ever be considered for disability pension. My daughter has had two comprehensive psychological tests, one done by Dr. Wally, part of District 53 school board, and the other one performed by Penticton mental health. These two tests showed that our daughter had severe learning difficulties and had difficulty doing every day’s tasks. Both professionals stated that that our daughter would more than likely qualify for long-term disability. All of the four Doctors that worked with my daughter stated she would be unable to hold a normal job to support herself.

Now these professionals can determine that a pension plan is applicable, then why must we jumped through bureaucratic hoops. The answer is simply this! There is NO need.. When considering that a monetary income would ensure: adequate housing, verses living on the street, funds in which to go to doctor’s appointments and or clinician appointments verses no health plan to healthy living, income in which to enrich their lives with education or social programs, and lastly to feel like a contributing, independent, individual of society. These are all basic human desires that reaffirm a human’s worth in society.

I am sure now that the BC government has been made aware of this– confusing, massive web of bureaucratic agencies, and the expenses of having two agencies handle one case. In a very tough economic period, we must be accountable to unnecessary spending. I would encourage the BC government to rectify this immediately. Call me, because I have some simple easy solutions.