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Nobody is saying that nobody should ever live with the consequences of their decisions. However, a lot of people are making huge assumptions about someone they don't know based on a 3 minute clip on the TV news AND completely ignoring what the story is actually about. The woman is not complaining that she didn't receive assistance because they determined she wasn't in need. She is complaining that the process is that the first 218 people in line get assistance REGARDLESS of anything but when they got in line.
Don't you find that a little nuts? Wouldn't you think that everybody who needed assistance would apply and THEN they'd apply some formula to income/assets, etc. and THEN determine who got assistance based on that? Instead of focusing on that, all anybody cares about is that there is a big screen TV in the background in the news picture. (The article does say that she's in the one warm room in the house so yes, she is at her own house.)
I know too many people who have been out of work for more than a year, who had savings that they have now expended but who paid into these systems and gave to these charities for decades before hitting a rough spot. Most of you who are complaining haven't contributed even a fraction of what some of these people have paid in taxes since before you were born! A large number of people (not just in this board, but in general) are so quick to harshly judge others without having any clue what the circumstances are.
In the words of Harper Lee, via Atticus Finch: If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
Last edited by AGDee; 12-31-2010 at 09:38 PM.
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