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"Next to" or "in between"???

Maybe you should start a new thread. Or a third book?
 
The airlines provide greater healing power than afforded by medicine or faith.

A caravan of wheel chairs deliver the disabled embarking on their journey, but the flight has provided the ability for them to walk off on their own.
 
Unfortunately, my sister in law is a prime example. "Disabled" when she wants to be and slurping on the public teat but enough money to travel at will. Florida trailer park. Would probably wear her "Handicapped" car sign around her neck if she thought about it. Overweight, overmedicated, smokes like a freight train. Huge Obama supporter. Outraged that "people like me" don't do more to help the "unfortunate" and delighted that now Obama is going to take it from us by force...serves us right.

If one of you accidently bumps her hovercycle off a jetway onto the tarmac, I will be justifiably outraged at the affront to my family (and send you your choice of really great scotch and cigar).
 
JediJD said:
Unfortunately, my sister in law is a prime example. "Disabled" when she wants to be and slurping on the public teat but enough money to travel at will. Florida trailer park. Would probably wear her "Handicapped" car sign around her neck if she thought about it. Overweight, overmedicated, smokes like a freight train. Huge Obama supporter. Outraged that "people like me" don't do more to help the "unfortunate" and delighted that now Obama is going to take it from us by force...serves us right.

If one of you accidently bumps her hovercycle off a jetway onto the tarmac, I will be justifiably outraged at the affront to my family (and send you your choice of really great scotch and cigar).
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My sister was "disabled". Overweight, turned into type II diabetes, massive medical bills covered by the State. It drove me nuts to the point that we were estranged for years. Everybody had tried everything to motivate her. No dice. A couple of months ago I got a call and she had fallen and shattered her arm. She was in a coma and died a few days later from complications. My last conversation with her 5 years earlier had been a very harsh one. There's nothing I could have done but I still have regrets. Her death makes it crystal clear to me that she had issues and it wasn't just motivation even though I thought it was. It was easy for me to pass judgement.

I have paid more taxes than most and donated more to and had an audience with the RNC that has been very close. I'm frosted at those that soak the system but on the other I'm no closer to understanding where the line is of who gets help.
 
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I am sorry for your loss and am likewise completely mystified as to a solution. My general thought is that community based solutions at least require the "disabled" to interact with local people who know the local situation and can grade when someone is genuinely in need as opposed to self inflicted mooching. Churches fight this fight every day with people who come in for help. In our community, they now share information occasionally on "serial hand out artists" while pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into poverty assistance ministries. When you put government employees in charge of assessing continuing eligibility, and allowing the assessments to simply perpetuate, leads to a culture of need...a culture for which some people are simply hardwired.
 
On the one hand:
Have you ever noticed how many handicapped people are cured during the fight and miraculously are able to walk off?
On the other hand:
Be thankful that the person in the wheelchair isn't you. That would suck.
 
You are all anti business. think of all the employees that make those wheelchairs and scooters. you bunch of socialists.
 
It is difficult to regret showing empathy, compassion and tolerance. I have greater difficulty judging others than is shown in on-line forums.

A life well spent, following the traditional values taught to us when young and then passing those values on to our children, is part of the preparation for when we’re before the only judge that counts.
 
Bridog said:
Have you ever stayed IN Disney and used their transportation system? You want to see wheel chairs, walkers, strollers, fat lazy people, etc. That's the place to go.
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The best part of that is the way they get to go to the front of the line when everyone is trying to leave the park and the line is 2 miles long! Last year I watched as a "disabled" lady went straight to the front of the line with her entire family, all 10 of them! We were lucky enough to see them many times in our week long stay.
 
Aarrhh & Aarrhh said:
The best part of that is the way they get to go to the front of the line when everyone is trying to leave the park and the line is 2 miles long! Last year I watched as a "disabled" lady went straight to the front of the line with her entire family, all 10 of them! We were lucky enough to see them many times in our week long stay.
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Thats why you bring and put grandma in a wheel chair:lol::smt043:lol:
 
Years ago my parents owned a retail operation. Plenty of parking at the front entrance to the building but there was also a side entrance that was very popular with only 6 regular spaces & 2 handicapped spaces. They had a regular customer who was an amputee on crutches that would skip the handicapped spaces & park length-wise across 5 of the 6 regular spaces pretty much shutting down that entrance to the building.

I'm all over helping those with true disabilities but to me that just said screw everyone but me.
 
Boy am I glad that I'm not flying a few hundred thousand miles a year any more! Yeah, no more Elite status when I do have to fly, but who cares?

After flying all that distance, you do tend to learn a few tricks. On some older aircraft, you can jam the armrest down by sliding some coins into the hinge. A mini sewing kit in your pocket can be handy for more than lost buttons. Turn the pins facing outward for when some boob tries to fold up the armrest. Too bad TSA will confiscate that today, but I got a lot of space back with that trick. Or travel in old clothes that you don't mind putting a blob of grease on the pants. Then there's the leaking fountain pen... The modified headphones where the sound is louder outside the 'phones than it is for the wearer and the really bright book light for those redeye flights are a good one, two.

I hated flying. But it was fun finding ways to exact retribution. I was getting my pilots license so that I could eliminate all of those short-haul flights. Then HR informed me that company policy prohibits the use of private aircraft while on company business. Some kind of insurance issue. bastards
 
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With regard to the disabled issue. Our situation is paradoxal...my wife has relapsing remitting MS, 6 herniated/bulging discs and has been declared to be disabled by 2: MD's. She has a Handicap parking placard but will not use the damn thing!! She's embarrassed by the stigma of what we have here in Florida. She could very easily ask for assistance boarding and departing commercial airliners but won't ask for it. She has not applied for SSI but can't work....she's partners with me in our business so it doesn't matter.

If she read this thread she would laugh along with everyone but secretly fears of becoming "the fat lady in the wheel chair". I guess that is her motivation to keep fighting it. I think that she's afraid that she ever gives in she's done.:huh: I guess the fear of becoming stereotyped as a social "leach" has kept her motivated...and for that I'm thankful.:thumbsup:
 
Gary,
I would have liked to known you were down my way. I'd liked to have met you and bought you a beer.
Oh wait a minute I was with Odyssey and Hanson in Bimini snorkling and drinking.
Sorry about your Plane woes but remember it can always be worse.
You ever get down this way again let me know.

Jack
 
TurtleTone said:
You are all anti business. think of all the employees that make those wheelchairs and scooters. you bunch of socialists.
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And all the people employed at McDonalds and KFC and their many suppliers. Feeding these fat people creates thousands of great jobs each year.
 
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