Well, does it occur to you that since the subject of this thread isn’t my disability, it is quite likely that only little bits would be posted, in answer to “questions”?
Excuse me? When did this thread have anything to do with anyone who “might have a problem in life”?
In theory, I agree with you. I wish desperately and often that people thought a hell of a lot more carefully before they had kids, and that they were able to support them. I agree that fewer people overall should have children and should have fewer of them. However, I am not able to formulate a way that anyone in a free and democratic society can remove their right to do so. It wouldn’t be me or you making that decision, it would be some government bureaucrat with an agenda, and it would turn into a dystopian, Orwellian nightmare. So, we’re stuck dealing with just about anyone who wants to and is able to having kids. The good news is, as I posted earlier in the thread, Americans aren’t replacing themselves. The birth rate is down.
How do you “disallow” people from having children without violating their Constitutional rights? You can’t. You simply can’t. That’s the fact of the matter. I don’t want the government getting involved in people’s reproductive rights, no matter how angry I get at horrible people having lots of kids. It’s the lesser of the two evils, in my opinion. YMMV.
ETA: Giving people free Depo or pills is OK with me, if the person wants them. Forcing them? Not OK.
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That sounds waay too authoritarian for my tastes.
My Great Grandfather the Racist Asshole doesn’t count as my whole family. I met him exactly three times in my life. He died when I was about 14. Many, many people of his generation are racist–he was in his 90s in the 1990s. Most of my mother’s generation supports Obama (except my mother herself, who thinks he isn’t really the president. Go figure.) and one of my two living grandparents worked for his campaign. Most of the family I stay in touch with shares my views on gay marriage rights and animal rights and abortion rights and all those issues. So I’m pretty equal to what I come from, but I’m way better than people who make fun of those with eating disorders.
That post was just snotty - have a look at your second post. Tho telling me that I am not reporting my childhood correctly is quite close to calling me a liar.
Which bring up the next thing you do, tho I don’t know if it is because you misread things, misunderstand things or are just willfully trying to cause trouble. If you will read your post that you linked to, you will notice in the part you quoted from my prior post that I said “Perhaps this was a function of where I grew up, perhaps because I grew up poor, I don’t know.” This is not a “claim”, this is a theory or hypothosis, an indication that I don’t know the reason that my mother did her grocery shopping on the way home from work, before picking us up.
What “idiotic and counter intuitive point”? Where I grew up, that I grew up poor, that it was part of my upbringing that children were seen but not heard? Did you grow up poor in the PNW during the 60’s so of course you would know all about this?
Uh, what do you think was a lie and which do you think is the stupid shit?
You are doing it again. Read what I quoted from your post, above where I said you probably won’t admit to being wrong.
Yeah, right.
When you started bitching about your tax dollars going to support children, while at the same time you said that you were applying for SSDI because it is your money. If you remember a few pages back you admitted that you would take more than you have paid in.
So you think people who can’t feed themselves should be allowed to bring children into the world that they also can’t feed? And that the government and taxpayers should just foot the bill? If not, do you have a better solution? In my scenario, you get welfare depending on whether you stay on birth control. If you don’t want the birth control, you either get a job or you don’t eat. And on second thought, I’d rather it be Implanon or an IUD as opposed to pills or patches, which can be forgotten or thrown away.
It was planned to be an actual turnaround, but as it turned out I couldn’t do it. Which of course I’ve already said earlier.
I got my threads set at 40 per page, and at 2000+ posts, so it’s gotta be 50+ pages for me…but nonetheless, this thread really is the false bastard step-son of Satan.
Huh, I wish I’d seen this prior to my last reponse to you because right there in what you quoted is me admitting that I was wrong about something. You know, what you wanted me to go look for?
Except, it wasn’t one day.
Yeah right. I imagine if you ask your husband, he can explain the difference between driving a small car and a semi.
I cannot work for more than 2 or 3 hours. I do not drive for more than 2 hours at a stretch and that rarely. It’s amazing what you garble in order to have the chance to yell Gotcha!
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Ah, we are finally getting close. All this time I wondered if anyone was going to actually ask, but then it’s been much more fun to make things up hasn’t it? And go and count all the posts? :eek: So, are you going to actually ask?
Anyway, as I said, I cannot work for more than 2-3 hours, and neither can I drive for that long. I can keypunch, but I cannot do it for even half a day. And, as starwarsfreek42 said, (and I think I did prior too) being able to do something once doesn’t mean I can do it daily.
No, I did not. I specifically said that I have a service dog, that I trained myself. That doesn’t even come close to a “lifestyle”. As for having other dogs, what does that have to do with anything?
Yeah, you’re never snotty. 
Please point out where I said you were not reporting your childhood accurately. Here’s what I said:
Nowhere did I say that you were lying. I was using your comment to make a general statement about how poor people probably do have to take their kids to the store because they have fewer childcare options. This general statement is using the plural “you” is not directed at you specifically. I think the confusion lies in the fact that you are taking my comments personally when they are not directed at you per se, but at the idea that poor people didn’t or don’t take their kids to the store. Do you understand now?
You can try to revise history all you want; however what you said was that you would be no longer responding to this thread due to the fact that you were leaving for a turn around. Less than 24 hours later you were back, having driven 16 hours in a single day. Except somehow you forgot the nap–Now you never drive for more than 2 hours at a stretch. It would be difficult to do a turn around when driving only 2 hours at a time. So, either you are lying now, you were lying when you said you forgot a nap, or you are lying right now… Either way your stories don’t add up.
What is the nature of your disability?
The board has a function where you click on the post count for the thread and it lists everyone who posted to the thread and how often they posted. For someone who can’t keypunch, your posts outnumber the next most frequent poster’s by 50%. Impressive!
What is your disability?
You have said that you have many service dogs and that you have other non service dogs. I assume that they require care. Considering the level of care that animals require, it has everything to do with your claims of being disabled.
Except that’s not what I wanted you to admit you were wrong about. But whatever, you said you admitted it, fine. You admit it now, so you should therefore have revised your opinion on paying for playgrounds accordingly, yes? Good.
Isn’t that what a turnaround means? You did say you did it in one day, with a long nap. Please don’t tell me you’re changing your story again… You said:
You later corrected yourself to say you took a nap. That’s still 8 hours, with a nap in the middle, then 8 more hours. Or will you revise this story yet again? How does it feel to be nitpicked over petty shit? Not so great, eh?
I imagine, if you bothered to ask instead of just being a snotrag, that you’d know that my husband doesn’t drive a semi anymore. He drives a smaller, attached cab truck for short haul deliveries. He said the truck is as easy to drive as a car, it has power steering, brakes, etc. Semis also have power steering and are not harder to drive, in terms of turning the wheel, than a car. Now, if you have trouble working a clutch, or using the floor shifter, or braking, that’s something else. For short haul, you’d be fine if you could sit in the car for the better part of 8 hours a day, and drive a standard. Sound good? Get out there and get your CDL.
I already said that your link proves my point,not yours. Do you want to address that? According to 3a), you are on welfare. You need the payment, else you would not apply. And, you said that your husband was laid off, that you yada yada yada…, you were in need.
Contradictions!
How so? We may disagree on what is welfare (see above), but that does not mean that the sentence does not make any sense. Explain?
Would you actually care to explain your point? How does “need” not apply to you?
You avoid the answer.
Same reason you work - because I don’t want to end up in need. Does it make a difference?