"kilikini" > wrote in message
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> cybercat wrote:
>> "Cheryl" > wrote in message
>> news
>>> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> Another thing that sounds good in theory. You will probably find
>>>> that most people that end up strung out on drugs got into them
>>>> because they already had too much spare time on their hands. Most
>>>> people who are gainfully employed and have other activities on the
>>>> side don't have time for getting wasted.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Dave, I'm not trying to isolate your post from the rest of some of
>>> what is disgusting me, but I couldn't stay silent anymore. We are
>>> the fortunate ones. We may not be rich, but we don't have to steal
>>> or sell drugs or resort to crime to survive. Maybe some of us did
>>> at one time but have pulled out of it now. Maybe that's why we're
>>> angry at those still taking. I prefer to think of it as a loan. No,
>>> they might not pay it back. The ones who abuse the system are the
>>> ones you think of when the word "welfare" comes up. Not everyone is
>>> abusing it. Some are stuck in unfortunate circumstances beyond
>>> their control. Some can't get health care through a legitimate job
>>> and have kids to think of. Ugh... I'm done. I just got sad reading some
>>> of the posts in this
>>> thread where most of you posting think people who are poor are that
>>> way by choice. And that we're not supposed to help them. We ARE
>>> supposed to help them. " ... there but for the grace of God go I
>>> ..."
>>
>> There you go. The response of a human being. Way to go!
>
> I'm reading all this and I'm feeling a little sad and ashamed at what some
> folks are saying because I'm on disability. I don't get much a month, but
> if I don't receive my monthly disability allowance, I don't get Medicaid -
> that's the rule. I can tell Social Security that I don't want their
> money, but if I don't take it I can't receive Medicaid. It's kind of
> silly.

Kili, do not let these bitches bother you. All this petty, mean-spirited,
unkind and ungenerous crap will come back on each and every one of them.
I've never taken any kind of help because I've never needed it, thank God.
No catastrophic illnesses, accidents, etc. I could be as arrogant and
unfeeling as all these *other* assholes (hahaha!) but for some reason I am
not. I've never had anything handed to me, had to work hard for everything
and am still working hard, and yet I begrudge the poor not one cent of my
tax money. I begrudge the ****ing Pentagon a whole bunch, but not the poor,
the addicted, the mentally ill, the old, and the very young.


[snips]

>I can say thank you to Medicaid because I am still here, breathing.

That is what it is there for.

>If I had not qualified for Medicaid, I would definitely have died by now.
>I came really close.
>
> So, I don't feel that my receiving medical help is abusing the system.
> I'm grateful, very grateful for the help. Besides, I want to stay around
> for a few more years at least, to continue to irk my husband. :~)
>

Oh yessss, let's hear it for that. Look him in the eye and say, "I have not
borne any children." (The unspoken part is, "so why am I picking up somebody
else's underwear?)