so, let me get this str8 - you think 'people from other countries with free healthcare' come to america for 'free' treatment? what a ****ing idiot. The king of Saudi Arabia came her for 'free treatment'... ya. sure.

and cancer kills everybody, yes, but you are a ****ing muleheaded dick either way for implying the rich are on even ground with the poor.

He didn't say anything about people coming here for free treatment.

Of course the rich aren't on even ground with the poor. That's why they are classified as RICH and POOR.

If you're lucky, Iowinian won't see this. Otherwise, you are about to get a beat down of colossal proportions.

That is not what I said at all, simple simon.




This is your easy out.
Use that tone or a #umber in a word again directed at me and I'll make a lamp shade out of your hide.

Sounds like somebody's foodstamps got lost in the mail again.

GIMME MAH HANDOUTS NOW! WHERE MAH STIMUUS CHEK?

:sigh: Peering toward DC.

My father in law had plenty of money and access to the best medical treatment available...and guess what...he died of cancer.

And I'm still trying to figure out what in the hell this has to do with the topic.

Thank them for the call, 'cause you almost forgot to tell them that you had to stop mowing for all of the rattlesnakes that kept clogging up your mower.

An experience from the last two days is on my mind that brought to mind Iowaians tale here of helping out his neighbor....

2 Nights ago my wife and I are sitting together... kids in bed... Watching True grit (the new one) for the first time.

Its about 11pm and my doorbell rings - I walk to the door that my nice big scary looking black dog is already barking at... and I see who it is... and its this African American man in his 40's i would guess asking to use my phone to call 911 for his wife - he is my next door neighbor and this is the first time I have met him, now grant you I just moved to the Chicago area less than 30 days ago I felt compelled to come outside and let him use my phone -

He did just like he said called 911 and the EMTs took her away
He then told me his 4 yr old grand daughter was with him and asked if I could give them a ride to the Hospital.. So i did... He asked I had change for a 50 and I didnt take his money even thought I was low on gas...

I saw him touch my wifes rosary in the car and I saw him praying / having a connection with it so I said **** it and told him he could have it.

Instead of dropping him off he asks me to come in and he thinks its going to be real quick and I know its not but I come in say hi to his wife in the ER room and have a cup of coffee with him - by that time i tell him I gotta go and He finally realized it was not going to be a fast thing.

So I drive home low on Gas.

FF to yesterday about 7:30pm - his wife is at the door saying thank you and asking for one last favor - to drive them "about 15min away" to go get a car so they can stop asking for help.

That sounds awesome to me.

but only it didn't go quite so simple
We went to the 'hood of Chicago - not the REAL bad hood of Chicago, I've been there before too (thats a story for another time) - but the part that any white kid from JoCo would roll up their windows lock their doors and avoid eye contact.

any way i digress

we bounce from house to house - street corner to street corner - looking for his cousin - we find his uncle and they go all around and guess what - she left and there aint no car.

I tell them we really need some gas - cuz ya know the $6 you put in just aint cutting it no more.

He puts $2 more in and we head home.. he said he has $20 that he can give me once we get back to the house.. UGH!!! Fine!! i'm thinking...

I dont get home until 10/10:30 that night and I almost ran out of gas, I wait for him to come back out and he doesn't...

Lesson learned.. really... my wife was laughing at me cuz i was taken for the proverbial ride...

TODAY!!!!

Wife is home alone with the kids and guess what - she hears a knock on the door...

She doesn't answer it - I love her - shes so much smarter than me LOL

Nothing else from him this evening

anyway..
I just had to vent and it seemed to go along with the other stories here.

Now back to whatever the hell else was in this trehad

QUOTE=Iowanian;7756827]I've said for years that in the United States, being poor is "too easy".

Why go work in the heat like an idiot when you can stay home in the ac, play xbox in your govt funded home eating your taxpayer funded doritos...[/QUOT

If you truly believe that then go try it for just 6 months and then come back and report. Being poor is not easy it is hard as hell. Just be glad poor peole find some other mechanism beside murdering you and I. Never make a comment like that until you have walked in a poor persons shoes.

Yeah, we should all thank the poor people for not murdering those of us who support them.

THANKS POOR PEOPLE!!!

I would and it would be the last time I got asked...

Think nothing of it...

See and this is where the difference lies between us and oh say the UK. If you want to riot here fine, but we're armed and not as much of a pushover as they were.

Look there are a number of people that struggle no matter how hard they try and THOSE folks deserve our extra assistance. However for the ones who don't even try and who complain about what they are 'entitled' to **** them. The only the universe ever entitles anyone is death. You can spend your life blaming someone else for your problems or you can get off your ass and fix the problem yourself.