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Re: OT; What are the elderly going to do?


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Posted by Chris in MO on February 03, 2008 at 19:32:09 from (216.229.84.164):

In Reply to: Re: OT; What are the elderly going to do? posted by GO OLD FORD!!! on February 03, 2008 at 18:34:03:

I've got to agree.

This last year I had some medical bills for things that I have been putting off and they blew up this year. These, compared to most, are fairly small ticket items. I am self-employed and self-insured, so they drained our savings anyway.

Winter has always been a very tight time for us financially. We just hunker down and make it through. This winter has been tighter than usual. So I made a big effort to see if anyone I knew needed anyone to do ANYTHING for them. Some did, most didn't but promised to ask around. What troubled me most was that quite a few wanted to tell me where I could go for a government handout.

My parents were divorced when I was a kid. My father got tired of child support payments and left the state. My mother needed back surgery. Well, we were on "welfare" for exactly three months before she could get back to work. Even while she was home convalescing, she took a telemarketing job with a local company selling double pain replacement windows (this was in the late 70s). I know that taking these handouts for even that long grated on her. Well, years later she told me something I always have remembered. Whenever someone gives you something for nothing, there are ALWAYS strings attached, even if they are invisible.

This subject just touched a nerve and had to add my 2 cents.

Christopher


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