No, the point is, the system did screw me, and now that I am on the other side taking care of business, it wants to screw me from the other end. To hell with that. Let freeloaders hang out to dry. People that are in need, I'm all for helping them. Especially those people who are trying to improve their situation.
On another item, my daughter is disabled and she cannot even get a scholarship to college because I make too much. What?!? Are you friggin kidding me? I am not paying for her school. She is. She has no income and is dependent on us for room and board while at school. She can't even get a scholarship designed for people with her disability because of my income. How ridiculous. To make it worse, the scholarship was designed for people with a specific disability and for students with a parent with the same disability. That's me! My daughter has what I have, and because I overcome my disability by shear damn force of will and character, and I make more than some imaginary limit, then she doesn't qualify? Don't we still have the disability? Yes. But do I go get a parking handicap sticker and expect handouts everywhere I turn? No. But do I look out my car window and see lazy ass people parking in handicap spots because they feel they are better than other people, therefore deserve the spot? Yea. And free healthcare, etc.? Yea. Generalizations? No. Observations? Yes. Again...one day of what I see you'd change your tune.
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"The pride system tends to intensify the self-hate against which it is supposed to be a defense, since any failure to live up to one's tyrannical shoulds or of the world to honor one's claims leads to feelings of worthlessness." Bernard J. Paris, Ph.D.
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