I too give great amounts to St. Judes, and there should have been no reason for that student to go without care. Someone in the "system" failed them if they did not refer them.BillT wrote:I'm sorry TAM you crossed a line there implying I'm lying. The "just feel good nonsense" is just you believing that the problem doesn't exist. I have had many first hand experiences with children suffering and sometimes dying for lack of health care. I have been married for many years to a teacher that works in a very large public school district here in Texas. She has taught bilingual classes as well as non esl classes from elementary through high school. She is now an administrator. You are clueless to the number of children without healthcare that have mental issues that can be controlled with medication but the parents can't afford it. The cities and counties have cut their free assistance as budgets have been cut. I have donated numerous times to money raising causes to help a child pay for dialysis, transplants, meds etc. throughout her career. A close friend of mine gave up the teaching profession because she lost a dear student (age 10) over a Christmas holiday vacation because she had treatable leukemia and no insurance or public assistance to help save her. You are living an upper middle class dream TAM. Wake up and realize the real world is much more harsh and unforgiving than the little part of the world you exist in!!! With the number of post you have made on this forum I gave you a lot more credit than I should have. Turn off your computer for a while and take a drive through a poor neighborhood or two. Talk to people. Ask them what their problems are. You might be enlightened at what you might learn! Not everyone has it as good as we do. And it's not because they are lazy or came here illegally. One of my favorite causes is the St. Judes Childrens Hospital. I donate to them every year because they only take patients that have no way to pay for their life saving care. You know, the ones that don't exist in your mind. Google their phone number and give them a call. I'm sure they can give you a few specifics that might help burst your "feel good nonsense" bubble. Good luck to you sir.The Annoyed Man wrote:
And by the way, just what "opportunity of life" are you talking about that children were lacking that they now receive? You won't be able to provide a single factual example of a child left high and dry by the healthcare system. That's just feel good nonsense.
What is the incentive to get out of poverty by succeeding generations, when the gov't will provide what you need? Free housing, free food, free cell phone, free healthcare. Why work for it. If you want to preach to me about poverty, save it. I was raised by a single parent in a 3 room apartment. I slept in the same room as my mother and sister until I was 12 when I got booted out to the front room on fold out bed. We received no gov't assistance at all, and my mother worked every day of her life. I basically raised myself. I first went to work at age 14 as a "soda jerk." We took nothing, but it would have been so easy to lay back and cry "victim" and collect every sort of gov't handout available (far less in those days anyway), and raise another generation of "impoverished" people. Anything I have today, at age 70, I earned. I served my country for 23 years, and raised 2 kids. Both have degrees and one has a PhD. They did it on their own!
If someone in this country needs a helping hand out of poverty, it's there, but it doesn't work if it's too easy to do nothing but live off the gov't and live the street life. Can't find work, no problem, take a two year vacation.