How about this moron, expecting handouts or the government to pay his way:
Barkan testified that his family currently spends about $9,000 per month out-of-pocket on home care, on top of the significant costs his insurance does cover. “The alternative is for me to go on Medicare and move into a nursing home, away from my wife and my son,” Barkan said. “So we are cobbling together the money, from friends and family and supporters all over the country. But this is an absurd way to run a health care system. GoFundMe is a terrible substitute for smart congressional action.”
Well, nobody said life was fair. If I pay for your healthcare, I’ll be expected to pay for everyone else’s. I have myself and my own family to concern myself with.
Lets put it this way – It’s not my place to cover you. Everyone is out there for themselves. If you don’t understand that yet, you’re even dumber than you look. My business pays for my healthcare, as well as me making enough money to cover my own retirement – once again, not relying on the government and social security to do it for me. You want more money, get a better job. Can’t do that, not my fault.
Get a backbone. Nobody owes you anything. You’re pathetic.
Pretty ugly rhetoric, right? Makes you angry, doesn’t it? Well, of course it should — and isn’t it continuously mind-blowing how many people out there ACTUALLY TALK LIKE THIS AND BELIEVE THIS.
Sorry to bait and switch, but to realize that there are people out there that are so self-centered, cruel and uninformed that they would actually vilify someone like Barkan or anyone who’s life takes a turn that any of ours could at any moment, is grotesque to me.
What’s saddest here is that there are many people in this world, particularly on the right side of the political spectrum, who look at human lives this way. See people’s misfortunes and challenges as their own fault, and constantly quote survival of the fittest (I’ve had to sit through a few of these blowhards tirades).
...and we all know who spouts this kind of bile on a daily basis.
To the far right and the cruel 30% who find Trump’s continuous jabs at the less fortunate worth a few laughs to them, fuck you all to hell.
You can go through this life one of two ways. As a decent, caring person who sees us all as being in this together (which we are), or as a piece of meat who finds hatred intoxicating, ridicule empowering, and reinforcement of their own inflated ego life affirming.
This is the election to try to put these people back in their place – under the rock they crawled out from under in 2008 with the Tea Party.
God help us all if we see another 4 years of this kind of cruelty. Life is short. Be kind.