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Originally posted by marichiko
I waited 5 years to get medical assistance from this country. 5 long years, 4 of which I probably could have been a productive citizen again, standing on my own two feet just like I always had. Instead, I was in effect consigned to a human garbage heap while my health went steadily downhill for lack of proper medical care. My recovery has been made consiberably more complicated thanks to this long delay. I am not alone. My story has 7 .5 million variations but the people who could tell them lack the ability to be heard and, more importantly, the belief that anyone really cares to listen.
The disabled of this country are even more handicapped by the open prejudice they all too often encounter. People dismiss us as lazy druggies living off the government tit for lack of will to do better. We are all a bunch of shiftless cons in some people’s eyes.
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Shout AMEN! I've heard that myself a number of times. And I tell anyone who thinks that of me that they are a pile of rancid dogshit and to go fuck themselves with an infected dick.
It was shitty that you had to wait five long years and had to suffer like you did. NO ONE should have to go through such crap. You could have died for fuck's sake!!!!
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Let me tell you. There is NO government tit. Radar himself states this:
“Government keeps 85 cents of every dollar collected for overhead as opposed to 12-15 cents of every dollar for non-profits” Whatever the government does with this money, almost none of it is going to the needy disabled and charities are NOT taking up the slack.
Radar is espousing Libertarian beliefs with all the sunny innocence of a child. I’m sorry, but I don’t believe for a moment that Americans would take up the slack by an onslaught of charitable giving if their tax burden was taken away.
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Neither do I. Think about it: suddenly, Americans can keep every single dime that they work for?? Well shit! "Hey honey, let's go on that vacation we've been dreaming about." "Wow, now we can get that luxury item that we've been saving up for!!" "How about we get that expensive bike that Johnny's been asking us about for ages?" Please! Reality check folks: as it stands now, people pick and choose which charities they want to donate to, and there are plenty that need money and don't get it.
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For one thing most Americans find it incomprehensible that people could be reduced to such desperate circumstances in the good old US of A. For another, under libertarian anarchy people would remain largely uneducated about these and other issues. There would be no public libraries or school systems. The wealthy would give their children a good education. Everyone else would home school their children or forget about the whole thing entirely. On top of that, people would be too busy arming themselves to the teeth without police or fire protection. The disabled would be the last thing they thought about.
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*standing ovation*
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Radar advocates an end to all government services because he resents paying taxes. This is the real world, not some utopia. If the libertarians would put down their copies of Ayn Rand long enough to look out their windows, they might realize this. OK now, go ahead and attack me. I may respond or I may not. I’m feeling very tired.
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Don't even sweat it. The world he's taking about won't even begin to happen in our lifetimes anyway. We're all living on borrowed time...who has time to wait for change? (at least, for THAT kind of change??)
Chronic illness has opened my eyes to a lot of things, and most of them are not so pretty.
