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Originally Posted by fxashun  If I have lifetime benefits, I don't see how they aren't giving 100% disability to some of the other gruesome injuries I've seen coming from over there. |
Your situation just might be different than everyone else's, FX. The other day on CNN; I was watching a piece that dealt on veterans and whom they would support in the upcoming Pennslyvania primary. Some of these men admitted that they lived in shelters because they were homeless.
We don't owe these people something?
I agree with wanting to get out of a ghetto. I don't believe anyone consciously chooses to want to live there. But, that want has to extend to doing what is necessary to keep themselves from getting in there, and also doing what is necessary to get out if they are already there.
But I'm a realist in that I know we can't solve every problem for everybody. I'm sure with true effort, some of us might find that getting out is not easy; (as FX said) but it is possible (and preferable); and I think any such programs need to be structured along the lines of "helping" instead of "doing for".
There is an old saying about "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for life. Lately, there seems to be entirely too many whom have added another line to that old saying: "Why should I learn to fish if I'm going to get it for free"?
That's what really bugs me.