I’m sorry - whatever made you think they were NOT working while going to school? Where did I say that? NOWHERE! That is you, once again, assuming anyone not you is a freeloader.
Only YOU could turn a 45 year old woman seeking a second degree, a master’s in education, to improve her lot in life while working to support herself and two teenage sons without help into something bad. Isn’t that what you want people to do? Better themselves?
And what the HELL makes you think my sister who went through medical school did NOT work? As soon as you get that MD you go to work, it’s called an “internship”, which my sister just completed this June. “Further” into debt? Neither had ANY debt prior to re-entering school, and that is the ONLY debt they have.
As I said - my sisters get up off their asses every day and go to work. For years they have done it while also improving their education. I fail to see how you have ANY grounds to criticize either of them. Except, perhaps, you’re a bitter old woman with, perhaps, a bit of jealousy at their energy and ambition.
My husband and I covered “several hundred dollars in medical expenses” when we had no insurance at all, without asking anyone for help. So whoopee. I am NOT impressed by that “accomplishment”.
And if you could make yourself more comfortable, if you could afford to do so, and you do not then you are a masochistic fool.
When I get back on my feet it will be my money, too. I’m not exempting myself from this in any way. In any case, you don’t seem to be using your money anyhow
The smilie usually indicates a JOKE, you ninny - but then, you have absolutely no sense of humor, do you? Sorry, I forgot. Well, sucks to be you, then.
Some day a miracle will happen and you will be able to approach a subject without hyper emotionalism. Anyway, if you will note, that was a question, not an assumption.
Snort. I have energy and ambition. I just find it interesting that these women who “get up off their asses every day and go to work” had to get student loans.
So this business of you demanding that the taxpayer provide you with insurance is a new thing?
See, there is that attitude. I’m a masochist because I prefer to try to insure the future instead of trying to make today perfect? Which seems to be the attitude of far too many in the US these days - spend it now, even if you don’t actually have the money, and tomorrow will take care of itself.
What in the world would give you that idea? If nothing else, I pay my bills, remember?
And those posts are where? Good lord, I spend posts and posts talking about personal responsibility and from that you get I think I am due other people’s money, without earning it?
That was my experience when my husband went on Medicare, as well. No more denying coverage initially only to reverse it later. No more delays in payment. No more scrambling like mad on my end to get things authorized and pre-authorized and okayed and “will they pay this?”
All of the people in billing knew exactly who they were dealing with and exactly what they would pay. The bills were paid completely and on time. The explanation of benefits papers were clear. I didn’t get double paperwork from billers because my insurance was so slow.
Medicare works. I won’t claim it’s perfect. The doughnut hole screwed us over big time, but for what it does, it works.
You do, however, receive SSDI which is a taxpayer funded government benefit program. So you take government money every month instead of working for a living. Just want to clarify that for anyone reading.
I worked for over 35 years before I became disabled, and so paid into that SSDI. Just want to clarify that for anyone reading - Broomstick has axes to grind.
Yes, we know you think that tax money you paid went into a little box with the label curlcoat on it, but that’s not how the system works. You bitch about people who take other people’s tax money, but have no qualms about doing it yourself. Hypocrite.
I understand your posts just fine - its you who don’t understand how the world actually works. Fortunately for me you don’t vote therefore your ignorance will have no effect on actual social policy.
Actually, I do believe that curlcoat understands that she’s not getting money that’s “her’s.”
But she also believes that because she paid into the system, she’s not getting money unfairly, she contributed, now she’s getting back.
And, apparently, she also believes that vast majority of those who have to take advantage of any program designed to assist people in hard times is a freeloader and part of generations of welfare recipients, maybe welfare cheats. And obviously, these people haven’t paid into the system, like she did, and are looking to get something for nothing and are expecting that everyone else pull their weight for them, unfairly.
That’s the only way to explain why what’s sauce for her goose isn’t sauce for anyone else’s gander.
Huh, someone with a brain. The only thing you got wrong is I have no idea if it is a vast majority or not, since no one seems to care to study it. Apparently, it is OK with the government that we continue to pay to support these people, and now perhaps also hand them free or extremely cheap healthcare.
