A friend of ours recently underwent knee surgery. She said it was so painful, that if she knew it would be so bad, she would rather wait a few more years, until she could not function without it anymore.
After surgery came physical therapy. It felt like torture, every day, and with no mercy. Pushing to the limit, when you cry, and when sweat is all over you…
You can’t take it anymore but they push you, there is no way out, you got to do it…
This is the only way to make her knee working. So doctors and nurses are freaking cruel to her for her own good. She knows it. She knows that they can’t do it for her, she has to do it, and that mobility will come as a result, and she would dance again…
Isn’t it the same with entitlements? Getting back to normal life means a lot of effort, exercise, going through pain. And if you do not do it, you may not get back your life, your independence.
So why is it that doctors and nurses understand it and our politicians don’t? Why doctors and nurses would torture you for your life, for your own good, but with entitlements, we would just give freebies and not make people push hard to rebuild their lives?
There was a work requirement for welfare recipients, a weak one, but current administration removed even it. Is it because of the value of unrestricted welfare for the government, as making happy slaves is a sure way to get the votes?
What is the motivation of people on welfare with food stamps and Medicaid to really work hard to change it? But now, since they become handouts junkies, you have all their votes as long as you keep feeding them… And these are angry votes from angry people. There is no happiness there. And they need more, as more is better…
You start feeding a bear, and the bear would forget about looking for food in the woods, and would be in your backyard…
Don’t we see how it destroys the lives of the very people it is supposed to help? Don’t we know that the best help is pushing people and forcing them to work, to reintegrate into the workforce, not to let them get used to freebies? And please, do not tell me that the unemployment is so high and people can’t find jobs. Because if this was the case, we would not have had this problem with illegal immigrants. We have plenty of things that welfare recipients can and should do.
If there is a muscle that is not trained, it becomes weak and dies.
Many, who are not working and who are not forced to work – wouldn’t. Is it because we, unlike doctors and nurses, would rather buy them misery, lock them in poverty, than be cruel? Cruel for their own sake…
What about choosing a surgeon as our next President?
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