Author Topic: Back to School for Me  (Read 469 times)

Offline Ted S

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Re: Back to School for Me
« Reply #15 on: January 31, 2013, 08:58:08 am »
When you become disabled you're a taker, not a maker.  But before you became disabled, you were a maker who earned your keep.

True.  Also true is the fact that some people fake disability so that they can go through life reaping the benefits of somebody else's labor.  I've met people with real disabilities and I've met people with fake disabilities and I'm sure you have too.  I have no problem helping those who are truly needy, I have a big problem with able-bodied people who feel that they are entitled to life's goodies at somebody else's expense.

Same is true for the elderly.

Not exactly. The elderly knew they were going to become elderly their entire lives. Kids can't prepare for a disability but being old is something individuals should prepare for.  In my opinion it should be the responsibility of individuals to save for their own retirement. It should not be the job of the federal government to take resources from grand children of your neighbors so that you can live well in your retirement years. People have 60 years to get ready for retirement, they should do it.

Any pretense that everybody should be a shopkeeper is further evidence of divorce from reality.

I'm not sure what you mean.  I don't think everybody should or ever will own a business but I do think that the default position should be to become self-sufficient.

So despite all the whining about right to life, disabled kids deserve to die too because they'll never grow up to be makers.  Got it. FAIL

Nope.  Disabled kids should be cared for by people who love them preferably.  If that is not possible then the state should do it.  Healthy kids who grow up to become adults too lazy to provide for themselves should be given many forms of a-kick-in-the-ass.