Posted on 12/31/2012 11:19:02 AM PST by OddLane
I don,t see anything wrong with Government funding to support the disabled but Government funding should be set up for that purpose.
Many people get disability already but i do not recollect paying taxes for that specific purpose.
We pay social security tax so that we can start collecting the benefits at an age when many get to where they can not do much work and also tax for medicare.
We could do the same thing as far as disabilty is concerned.
But the idea of a general fund for the socialists in Government to do what ever they want to do with, doling out to unwed mothers and lazy asses and dope adicts and a thousand other thing is why this country is hitting rock bottem in the first place.
Lysander Spooner said it best.
Love me some Spooner...Lysander that is!
Nice as it sounds to have government pay for the care of “the disabled,” the problem is that you end up with what we have now: a proliferation of recipients whose “disability” is a lifestyle choice, and death panels for the truly helpless.
Good point. Was this the reporter who talked to parents who didn’t want their children to learn to read, because then they wouldn’t be “disabled”?
A country that won’t help little old ladies or blind retarded folks is not a country I want to live in.
If programs designed for the disabled actually screened recipients there would be far fewer on disability, but it seems many who have worked the system of welfare for years know how to scream until they get what they want. I worked with a patient once who was paralyzed from the neck down who took the initiative to get a list of shut in persons and call them every morning to make certain they were okay. She felt that was her “job” to make receiving disability herself okay in her mind. She believed everyone should contribute something.
I am well old enough to remember how families used to care for disabled members but today families simply will not do that. So what do some here who profess to be prolife suggest to do about sweet disabled person maybe with CP and a 2 year old mentality when the family dumps them in a home?
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