Living Without Money

[VictoryARC]

Ill read some of those links when I'm home on my CPU. My first thoughts are that the things that are important to me and my family that require $ are health care and education for my child. Both of which are extremely expensive. Living like a barefoot hippie in the forest communing with squirrels is great, but I choose to live in a relatively safe neighborhood in a good school system and have the ability to be responsible in case any medical emergencies happen. If you rely on others to take care of you in medical emergencies just because you don't feel like paying for healthcare you're a deadbeat. I have more to say but ill leave it at that.

[Sephrana]

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I choose to live in a relatively safe neighborhood in a good school system and have the ability to be responsible in case any medical emergencies happen. If you rely on others to take care of you in medical emergencies just because you don't feel like paying for healthcare you're a deadbeat. I have more to say but ill leave it at that.

Ok. I have to address this. You CHOOSE to have the ability to be responsible but not everyone has that capability.

consider someone who is extremely mentally ill and is unable to hold down a job that pays enough for health insurance, their meds AND to have money left afterwards to sock away for medical emergencies...

or perhaps even more sad:

A woman who is told 2 weeks before she has her second child that her husband has decided he no longer wants to be married, never loved her and doesn't really want to be a father.

Have you checked the job market lately? Do you know how much daycare costs? Without any assistance that woman has the cards stacked against her. NOW she is a single mother and unless she happens to have an abundance of supportive folks willing to help her she is screwed.

Now every day for her is a struggle and you can DAMN SURE bet the farm that 90% of women in that position are unable to provide for emergency care for their children - does that make them deadbeats? no - it makes the men worthless wastes of space and when they dont' pay their child support - dead beats.....not to mention that makes the road that much harder for the single mother.

I hear the term "Welfare mom" bandied about a lot and you know what? That is degrading and horrible. Sure there are plenty of people who pop out babies just to get the assistance from the government but i'd wager even MORE people who take assistance are ashamed and embarrassed to receive assistance....why would you insult someone who tries their very best but falls short due to no fault of her own?

Most people assume there are all kinds of programs for single mothers and there may be but damn if they aren't hard to find and get access to.

My friend's brother is autistic. He works at Pizza Hut and he has health insurance and does okay managing his money but he does also have state funded medicaid. is he a deadbeat also for relying on public assistance?

Just because someone is not as blessed and fortunate as YOU are does not make them a deadbeat.

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Just sayin'