Question Of Ethic

Sparked by, a conversation, between KL Goode and I.

How would you feel

If someone

You knew

On social assistance

Was crowd sourcing

For their SRS?

Knowingly

By doing so

They're breaking

The law.

In having assets

Greater than $6 000

The limit for

Anyone

On ODSP.

Forcing

An automatic suspension

Until the excess

Is spent

Under provincial guidelines.

Honestly

The risks

And penalties

Aren't worth it.

Given the clawbacks

I would have

To repay.

Besides

I still need

To get approval

From CAMH.

To start

The long journey

Of uniting

My body and soul

As one.

Author's Note

ODSP: Ontario Disability Support Program
CAMH: Centre Addiction and Mental Health research

Reviews

[Lyn Anderson]

Personally, the lines I draw are moral and not legal ones. Considering the fact that some people on social assistance do a lot worse, I wouldn't feel badly. But, if you were my sister, I would do it for you, so it wasn't yours and you would not get in trouble. So there's that. I don't believe we should draw lines in health care that are so arbitrary. We pay for fertility treatments, but I had to pay for a procedure two prevent severe pain and cramping, and excessive bleeding, because I wasn't willing to undergo a hysterectomy. It makes no sense the places they decide to draw the lines.
ps. it should be ethics :)

[therisa]

Thank you, KL, your generous offer. I would never want to be, the poster child that the conservatives hold up, when they start cutting social programs, in Ontario. I remember 1995, too well, to ever forget that year.