Saturday, June 17, 2006

Could have been donated to the poor families.


Pictures 018, originally uploaded by Oldmaison.

I found all these clothes in a garbage bin the other day. Shameful act....Many poor families could have use some of these items.

23 comments:

Anonymous said...

so why didn't you grab them?

Blogger Charles LeBlanc said...

Didn't have a car or washing machine.....:P

Anonymous said...

Excuses, excuses. Lot of talk no action. You could have put them in a garbage bag and taken to a public laundry..

Anonymous said...

Charles, we should talk more about the poor, the message just isn't reaching the right people to help these people. We should keep talking about it till someone hears the cries of the people.

Anonymous said...

"THe People" don't need to be heard any further, "The People" need to take personal responsibility, get a job, get some work, take better care of their own, stop relying on others permanently. There are plenty of programs, and organisations working full time to help others, but it is meant to be help, not permanent baby sitting of these folks. Many of us who give time and money and support, just seem to end up feeling we can't ever do ENOUGH for these"PEOPLE' who never seem to try to get their own shit together and just continue to demand more and more without trying to do anything for themselves. We cannot make it any easier for these 'PEOPLE; Do like the "immigrants" get a job.....any job....and try hard, show up on time, get a shower in the morning, take good advice, ....stop waiting for the next hand-out, and finally start talking more about your responsibilities and less about your rights. You will be better off for it in the end and you will gain self respect based on pride instead of feeling bad because your entitlements are adequate for you.

Blogger Charles LeBlanc said...

Was that last comment meant for moi????

Anonymous said...

I agree with "The Future" above. He/she is very articulate and knows their stuff.
I'm fed up with all these poor people with this idea that the working class "Owes them a living"..
I agree with the above comment too, if the old clothes meant so much to you, why didn't you pack a few in a garbage bag and take them to your friendly neighbourhood landry mat, hmmmmmm??????????

Anonymous said...

@ City Under.............tell me what your alternative is.......sounds like you are another one who can critisize and complain.but tell us .What do you recommend.and please be specific and action oriented.Please leave the same old laments out of your recommendation.

To clarify, I am NOT without compassion, I am not without first hand knowledge, I am not one who does nothing about any of this, I am not one who ignores the problem and I am not one who has not experienced the siuation peresonally. I have personnally and directly, both privately and publicly helped dozens of those who really need help.

Anonymous said...

@1:50.....nobody's kicken 'em and you're the one calling names, I reviewed the entire thread and you are the only one who called them "scum" which I think is outrageous.Then you proceeded to call them "bums'. what's with the name calling??? I agree with you on one thing...that those who are in poor health and unable to work need our help and they need more of it. It's the able bodied ones who suck off the system and take help they don't need or deserve who are really on my radar screen. If those folks would get a job, there would be more to help those who need it at a decent level. Kids who live in poverty would get better support in school and help to break the pattern. Do you have any idea how many frustrated employers there are out there, yes even here in Saint John,who cannot get enough people to fill vacant jobs??? So come on, get off the same old and lets get the likes of LeBlanc and Smith and the rest to get a job. Lets give support where its needed.

Anonymous said...

There are clothing recycling bins around for Salvation Army. They don't need to be clean first.
The Diabetes Association will pick up items too.

It's been asked so many times, Charles why won't you try to get a job? You can use a computer and you are functionally bilingual so why are you still on welfare? There are lots of call centres who hire people with those skills. There are also lots of seasonal jobs right now because of tourist season. Please explain to us, why you will not look for a job. Don't give us the excuse that you have ADHD because that is not a valid reason. Irving does not run every company in the province, so that's not a valid reason either. Seriously, what is stopping you from seeking employment?

Blogger Charles LeBlanc said...

I'll answer your question

http://oldmaison.blogspot.com/2005/11/charles-is-label-as-security-risk-at.html

enough said...

Anonymous said...

Here we go again. Judging people; if you don't have a vehicle it is hard to drag the clothes home.

Charles was just pointing out what he saw; we can't expect all problems to be solved by one.

There are different levels of poor and the miidle class are poor two. If the next pay cheque doesnot come in then it won't take long to be on the street.

If you want to complain start on the billionaires and millionaires. They get the tax concessions, subsidies, low interest loan, forgivable loans, crown land and many more millions and billions.. Right now the are trying to work a several million dollar deal with pulpwood. That is one of many. Average people of NB have no reason to be ashame if they honestly are trying. The few hundreds of dollars the porrest get is not the problem.. If they can keep attacking the poor they will be lest alone.

My husband and both work and I can be called middle class with a home but each year it gets harder to keep up. When we are short we have to borrow and we never seem to pay off the extra money. Someday we will be in trouble because everything goes up but the wages never match the cost of living. We don't waste our money but repairs need to be done and unexpected things happen.

Why can't people be more understanding? Only thing I can think of is they are never been that bad off or they have someone who help them when things get bad.

It is a struggle for us but there are so many people who have ut worse and I can not judge them and you shouldn't either. You don't walk in their shoes.

Anonymous said...

Here we go again. Judging people; if you don't have a vehicle it is hard to drag the clothes home.

Charles was just pointing out what he saw; we can't expect all problems to be solved by one.

There are different levels of poor and the miidle class are poor two. If the next pay cheque doesnot come in then it won't take long to be on the street.

If you want to complain start on the billionaires and millionaires. They get the tax concessions, subsidies, low interest loan, forgivable loans, crown land and many more millions and billions.. Right now the are trying to work a several million dollar deal with pulpwood. That is one of many. Average people of NB have no reason to be ashame if they honestly are trying. The few hundreds of dollars the porrest get is not the problem.. If they can keep attacking the poor they will be lest alone.

My husband and both work and I can be called middle class with a home but each year it gets harder to keep up. When we are short we have to borrow and we never seem to pay off the extra money. Someday we will be in trouble because everything goes up but the wages never match the cost of living. We don't waste our money but repairs need to be done and unexpected things happen.

Why can't people be more understanding? Only thing I can think of is they are never been that bad off or they have someone who help them when things get bad.

It is a struggle for us but there are so many people who have ut worse and I can not judge them and you shouldn't either. You don't walk in their shoes.

Anonymous said...

Charles, what are you doing looking in/hanging around garbage bins anyway??
Thinking of tossing yourself in, perhaps???

Anonymous said...

I read that entry about "security risk" and it does not answer my question. All it did was detail one specific experience you had with one specific job possibility.

Where is your explanation as to why you will not look for employment elsewhere? There are thousands of jobs in this province that are not associated with Irving or the government. Why are you not applying for those jobs?

In that post, you wrote, "My politics is separate from my work. All I want to do is earn a living and get off welfare." but how are we supposed to believe that if you refuse apply to call centres, to seasonal jobs, to restaurants, etc.?

Instead of spending every waking minute of your day taking photographs and writing in your blog, why don't you spend a portion of your day, 1-2 hours would be more than sufficient, actually going around to different companies, filling out job applications, dropping off resumes? With your computer and language skills, it would be shocking if you didn't get a job offer within a couple of weeks of putting some honest effort into a job search. You could even blog your job search.

Anonymous said...

The 'tough love' line is not very helpful. There's a reason why they say 'judge not', because every one of us has our own little problems and has no right to throw stones. Just because somebody was poor once, means nothing.

I hate repeating myself, but at least there seems to be more new people here. So here goes...

First, only half of the people who are on welfare are 'permanently' on welfare. The rest are people who simply fall through the cracks or lose there job. I know many students who have applied for welfare. Sure, you can be judgemental if you want-hey, go be a prostitute or traffic narcotics, show some initiative! That's hardly helpful.

Second, of the half permanently on welfare, over half of those are single mothers. Thank your federal government (both liberals and conservatives) for the wonderful child care). If you have money of course you are all set, but if you are on welfare, options are limited, and limited more when you have a kid. These people do not have families or a support network. In many cases it will cost more to get child care than you can make. Again, you can talk like "hey, its your own fault you got pregnant, now you live with it". That's hardly helpful and as most civilized societies know, it takes a community to raise a child.

The other quarter are those who are mentally and physically disabled. Ironically, many of these disabilities happened because of workplace accidents. Although Canada has one tenth the population of Britain, it has forty times more workplace fatalities and injuries. Gee. where do a lot of those accidents happen? Try resource extraction. Who does a lot of resource extraction but also owns all the newspapers? Surprised that you don't hear about it too often?

Third, as said, Charles not only has been labelled a security risk, but also has been labelled with ADD which of course cuts him off most jobs. Keep in mind that many 'disorders' are endemic to New Brunswick-Agent Orange wasn't just used on military bases, it was used on hydro lines and forests right up to the nineties. In fact, NB is one of the few places in the world which still lets companies 'blanket spray' herbicides on the forests. So, again, these things are people's fault.

Fourth, there are NO programs-go to the website. If you think there is some kind of massive bureaucracy at work to help these people out you are just deluded. Go to their website, there is ONE educational program which accepts 100 people per year.

Oddly enough, as Canada becomes more like the US, the states becomes more like what canada USED to be like. New York has a huge program where they've realized the most important thing to do for homeless is get them a home. So before anything else, housing is the priority. They've done this for thousands of people and its been very successful.

In New Brunswick, well, as we know from this website, even people who lived in lodging houses don't have basic human rights.

To be fair, I've NEVER heard Charles say 'you owe me a job' to anybody. In fact, nobody I know who is even unemployed has ever said that. However, government runs the game, you don't just discount them and say 'paddle your own canoe'. The day you start an acting troupe and play for change they'll come and ask for a permit, the day you make something to sell they'll ask for all your safety procedures, and on and on.

However, keep in mind there is nothing 'natural' about any of this. Every socialist economy has had full employment, hell, even NORWAY has full employment, hell, even MAINE has full employment. So government structures do play the main role in all this, and it IS 'their fault' because they are making the decisions.

For example, how many people are homeless? Well, why not do like they did in the 1800's and let people be land stewards. Instead of letting companies clearcut, you let groups of people settle the land, live there, and cut enough to get by.

There are hundreds of ideas like that, but we know whose priorities the government works by.

Anonymous said...

Yes I agree with the "Irony Police" (great name!).
Your energies are fruitless here on this blog and they are, for the most part, unappreciated.
And you are always commenting that you don't get paid for this.
I read that same blogspot that you pointed out to Irony Police.
In it, it explains very little.
I know you are bitter when it comes to the Irvings and you won't work for them. Fair enough.
It still does not address why you won't apply to the dozens of Non-Irving businesses.
Personally, I don't know how you live and get by on less than $500 a month social assistance.
But obviously you are doing it.
Wouldn't it give you a feeling of worth if in fact you were employed and earning your keep, even if it was only flipping burgers?
You and your side-kick Tim Smith there could both get together and get jobs and make a difference out there!

Anonymous said...

Well we could settle this once and for all on at least one point inparticular and that would be, who amongst all of us knows an individul With ADHD who currently works in a call centre in a seat for hours?

Now this is a Question worthy of coming back to see the answer!

And if there is by some odd coincidence a person to fill this question you can get every news persons connection through charlie as it will be one hell of a story to listen to.

Sit-down or slow thinking jobs are just not the right mix for an ADHD person as their minds never settle in the same place for very long and off it goes again while your still standing in the same place your already some place else and this I can more than contest to.

Anonymous said...

5:41 PM. I'm not into calling people names. I said they were human beings. I meant there are some cruel people out there that do call the poor names. There's no need of it either. Glad to read you did agree with some of what I said. I'm a caring person and think everyone should be treated fairly welfare or not.

Anonymous said...

I think Charles LeBlanc and Tim Smith were both put on this earth for good reasons. Charles for our children and Tim to help save lives. They are both doing their jobs and doing it well. There should be more people just like them in this world. They shouldn't be put down by anyone.

Anonymous said...

Amen to the above. Posters up above might think Charles needs to justify himself and why he isn't spending his time instead in some low wage dead end job.

The more important question is why such posters are so lazy and judgemental. In other words, justify yourself to us. YOu think because you have a job you have more worth than Charles?? Get real. This guy and Tim Smith almost literally got the tenants rights act into the leg. For forty years boarders had no rights, thats third world stuff-Little Louis didn't change it, Hatfield or McKenna didn't even mention it.

If you think Lord suddenly found a conscience you are crazy. This was from the pavement pounding and liberal harassing work of Charles and Tim. Why not call up Nelson Mandela and ask why he never got a job. Oh of course YOU wouldn't make those comparisons, but then you aren't a boarder. Perhaps if you had no rights before, you'd know what it was like now.

This website is literally the only place New Brunswickers can get coverage of all kinds of issues. That is a service that is priceless, so obviously the posters here are Irving or government people trying to get Charles to stop. Charles costs taxpayers $6000 a year for this service. You've paid Irvings a thousand times more than that over the years and yet don't complain. How about asking why the Irvings don't get 'real' jobs instead of just wrecking the economy and wiping out the ecosystem. You call that work?

You might think the sun shines up your ass because you get a paycheque, far from it. I'm guessing from the comments you people aren't social workers, nurses, or an actual contributor to society, rather than to an employers bank account.

If you guys would quit your jobs and join Charles then perhaps NB wouldn't be the armpit of Canada where people think they are the chosen ones just because they have a job. All it makes you is a wage slave. I doubt Charles has any trouble sleeping at night because of his conscience-he's doing his part. Clearly more New Brunswickers need a little more of that conscience.

Anonymous said...

Nelson Mandela always had a job. He was practicing and successful lawyer. After he was arrested he did hard labour in the jail. One of the hardest labour, working in rock quarries and all that. After he got out of jail he was the President of South Africa. So please do insult Nelson Mandela by comparing him to this bum.

Anonymous said...

9:45 AM. Charles is not a BUM. He's a very kind hearted person who has helped many people. You just sit there at your computer putting people down, what a job you have.