"The Ammo Shortage Of 2013"

lew1 · 02-05-2014, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by singleshotman

You people who hate the poor and the people on Disabilty almost make me vote Democratic. Just try sometime to get on Medicare and SSI, just try, its a lot harder than people think. My wife was hurt at work, it took 5 years to settle her case. She was an RN, and now cannot walk more than 50 feet because of an injury at work. We went into Bankeupty(sic) and nearly lost everything, only Ca state Disability payments kept us afloat, and food on the table. Had to leave CA. and now live in TX because we could not afford to live in CA anymore, the cost of living was far to expensive there.

Well, sorry to see that you had such a bad experience with your wife.

However you need to read the posts carefully.

No one is talking about poor people. No one is talking about people on disability in any area other than the mountain area of W. Virginia or Kentucky. No one is saying that there are not legitimate instances for SS disability

As to Medicare, it is not hard to get as everyone who attains the age of 65 receives it.

Going back to poor people, you may not have a conception of poor people. I grew up in Eastern Kentucky. Well water, septic tanks, fire places, no electricity until about 70 years ago, when the TVA lines were extended.

I moved out (along with a lot of others) to better places. When I went home to visit, many times my mother would have me drive her. Seems like she collected old clothes and needed help to deliver them to the truly poor. I can remember driving her to these dirt paths, carrying the clothes for her and we would walk 1/4 mile, 1/2 mile up the path (not a road) from the road to the people's house. The (wood) house was usually one or two rooms, heated by coal, dirt floor, outhouse, well water, no electricity as they were too far from the road. Children were born at home, many times with other children helping with the delivery. If a case of major a major illness, someone would try to walk to the nearest house for aid. Now those were poor people.