[heartwood]

Suppose the parents have taken care of the disabled child since birth, but now they are old, disabled, or dead? Suppose they have not been able to create a trust big enough to support the child for the rest of his life, perhaps forty years more?

And please remember, having a disabled child is likely to limit one’s ability to earn money in the first place, and entail greater expenses for his care, making it harder to come up with this trust.

And some disabled people’s expenses will exceed any ability of their family (how extended, btw?) to provide for them.

Well, there is charity, and perhaps many of us would give more to charity if we were not taxed so much.

There is also considerable abuse of SS disabilit payments, another story.

[tophat9000]

Look a small child is not able to work...they are supported by the parents. .and if no parents larger society or government steps in...and as a child grows in abilities they shoulder more responsibility till they are independent. ..in the degree a person is physically or mentality handicapped and not able to achieve independent. .the parents family or state continues the level of support needed........it is able body persons that are able to support themselves...that choose to stay a child and want a nanny government to take care of them and the government that want to control it people as parent to that child...that are the problem ..the state in effect cripples it people for control..the self crippled types then burden the tax payers and in effect rob from the truly needed and handicapped. .....

[Blackirish]

A country that won’t help little old ladies or blind retarded folks is not a country I want to live in.