National Priorities

[CaptainF]

The system, as good as it may be, relies on using people and then ditching them.

 

[Ayatollah So]

For democracy to work really well you need a culture that does not promote what the ancient Greeks would call idiotes - private people, people not involved in the affairs of the state. Or perhaps worse, marginally involved; involved enough to vote but not enough to get informed. How to get a different culture, I don't have a clue.

 

[Atlas14]

I do feel sorry for the guy, as others do, but Mise has a very good point about how he should have saved a lot better, considering he's in the military and accidents happen. My extent to helping him would be to help this man find a job, go around asking people or search on the internet for him, where they genuinely need an employee, and are not hiring him for sympathy's sake. However, I wouldn't dish out more money for this guy if people who have it worse than him are still managing to go to work every day.

 

[Neonanocyborgasm]

You must also assume, if he only has $5 per day to eat off of, he sure as hell does not have a car, or have the money to put gas in it, or pay the insurance cost. And then, he will walk to work? With his bum foot and cane? And then not use his hands because they are always wrapped (Dunno if this has to do with the carpal tunnel, but in the front page picture, his hands are wrapped.)

Sounds fishy. No one wraps the hands in carpal tunnel syndrome (it doesn't do any good). You have to wear special wrist splints. My point is, those two problems don't impede your ability to work. I've seen people in wheelchairs who drool from the mouth who are able to work. I have doubts that a bum foot and carpal tunnel syndrome are his only problems.

 

[Left]

I don't mind how 41,000,000 people don't have health coverage, they should just get a better job.

There are 41 million better jobs just waiting out there for the taking?

 

[Paradigne]

Honarable discharge just means he left under no bad circumstances. USUALLY meaning his term was up and he didn't reinlist.