It's May 14, 2024, 08:26:59 PM
My dad came home from work today very pissed off about the social support system:in America. Now my dad is usually very pro-american, but today he recieved a call from a friend in Texas. This woman is a born an reared texan, living in Dallas. She comes from a rich family, and she qualified as a procecution lawyer when she was in her twenties. Her husband was a rocket scientist. She has 2 children the first of whom is in an expensive college. Everything was going perfect for her up until 3 years ago.She was lecturing at UT when her husband died of a heart attack. Distraught, she went through about a year of being down and depressed, paying huge hospital bills to deal with it. She continued to own a large house and provide for her children through the money they had saved. However this year, she too suffered a minor heart attack and had to give up her job. For the last year, she and her daughters have lived off the savings while continuosly paying huge hosptal bills. For some reason, a family with no income does not get the dole, of free medical insurance. This seems draconian, but it's true. Now she rang my dad yesterday to say they've run out of money. She has no way of paying for her next hospital visit, or the college fees. She will have to take her daughter out of college, and possibly mortgage the house, but not recieving any income she will never be able to re purchase it. This one time succesful lawyer was yesterday queing with her daughter, a pretty 16yr old, quing for soup at a soup kitchen. Can you people who support right wing fiscal policies explain to me why this woman gets no safety net in case she trips on her road to success. What worries me greatly is this can happen to a rich woman. Imagine a working class woman, what chance would she have? Does anyone else agree that a strong social welfare scheme should be the basis for a socially inclusive society and not just GDP growth?
What a load of bullshit. Strange how ya can live life with blinkers only seeing what you want.
This is a woman that lives in a similar neighbourhood to you CWalker. Better hope u dont stumble or u'll be at the soup kitchens too.
But remember Dubya's tax cut is coming, with 45% of savings going to the richest 1% in America (George's friends)
and they might be lucky to see one or two homeless people. LOL.
Quote from: CWalker187 on February 09, 2003, 10:52:10 AMand they might be lucky to see one or two homeless people. LOL.One or two? Now whoz naive?? Youre as naive as those exchange students. U MUST be from the country or something, cus if u took a drive around San Diego, or La, or a lot of other large cities...youd see how bad the homeless problem really is. Youll see rows, and rows, and rows of homeless people. People just like u, who thought theyd never be homeless. Theres a lady in my neighborhood that was a RN, shes been in our neighborhood homeless for at least 6 years. If u stop and talk to these people, u could really learn sumthin actually. A lot of em are just mentally ill, and get stuck on the streets. San Diego has the worst percentage of mentally ill homeless people in the US. To an extent, those exchange students...were correct in their thinking.
yeah sucks i know but this ain't just america bub, ive been to LA 230948320984029384 times and from my observation i had more people begg me for change in Toronto, Halifax, St.Johns newfoundland, and London when i stepped of the plane