I thought I had "it".

[Mitch f]

My brother, my sister, and I, promised my parents that they would never be put in a nursing home if we could possibly avoid it. It turned out that they never were in a nursing home. I’m very thankful for that. If the circumstances were different, and they required 24/7 care and were bed ridden, we may not have been so lucky. Neither one suffered too bad for very long. My dad was 90 and really, really did not want to leave this world. He was driving 2 months before he passed, and was as sharp as a tack. One of the 10 commandments...Honor thy father and Mother. We always took that to heart. 

[Terrierman]

4 minutes ago, Mitch f said:

My brother, my sister, and I, promised my parents that they would never be put in a nursing home if we could possibly avoid it. It turned out that they never were in a nursing home. I’m very thankful for that. If the circumstances were different, and they required 24/7 care and were bed ridden, we may not have been so lucky. Neither one suffered too bad for very long. My dad was 90 and really, really did not want to leave this world. He was driving 2 months before he passed, and was as sharp as a tack. One of the 10 commandments...Honor thy father and Mother. We always took that to heart. 

You were lucky.  Not everyone is.

[moguy1973]

45 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Dude, you need to go to work for CNN, because look what you just did.    

Actually my idea for population control is much crueler than that, and goes like this.....If you have kids that you don't support then you get executed and your organs sold to the highest bidder.  If that isn't enough to cover their expenses until they are 18 then we'll go after Mom and her guts, or pimp her out to the Epstein clan.  No more government funded children.  If mom and dad both are unavailable then it goes next of kin.  

Old folks either need to have retirement funds, or be able to live off their SS and property equity alone.  If they can't, then they starve unless family takes them in.    This whole mindset of "no matter how bad I screw my life up.... everything will be fine" crap, needs to end. 

People with bad disfunctional brains and people who will never be able to take care of themselves either have to rely on family, starve to death, or sell their guts to pay their expenses.  State mental institutions are a huge drain on society. Full of highly paid psychologists that have never, and will never, cure anyone. They need to go back to school and learn a trade that benefits someone.

Here's another conspiracy for ya.... Do you think some coroners, hospitals, funeral homes harvest organs of those recently deceased? (Whether they are organ donors or not).  If so, who gets the money?  If not, why not?

Ahh, so just get rid of the undesirables, weak, and feeble minded so people don't have to worry about them.  Gotcha. 

[Gavin]

Hate to think that we would start euthanizing the poor.

[fishinwrench]

6 minutes ago, moguy1973 said:

Ahh, so just get rid of the undesirables, weak, and feeble minded so people don't have to worry about them.  Gotcha. 

It isn't about WORRY, it's about using up random people's money.    If you are ok with supporting them, and doing so isn't going to just kick the can down the road when it's YOUR turn to be in the same condition......then Cool Beans. 

It may sound cruel, but your uncle's misfortune isn't MY FAMILY'S problem.  We have our own asses to look out for someday.   

[fishinwrench]

11 minutes ago, Gavin said:

Hate to think that we would start euthanizing the poor.

Poor by choice?   It's a dog eat dog world. 

Poor by misfortune?  It is friends and family....or nothing.   

The entire population isn't (or shouldn't be) responsible for all the misfortune in the country.  

Nor should they be responsible for all the poor choices.

[moguy1973]

9 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

It isn't about WORRY, it's about using up random people's money.    If you are ok with supporting them, and doing so isn't going to just kick the can down the road when it's YOUR turn to be in the same condition......then Cool Beans. 

It may sound cruel, but your uncle's misfortune isn't MY FAMILY'S problem.  We have our own asses to look out for someday.   

I agree, and I'm total anti socialism, but killing people off because they are less desirable?  That's hideous.

[fishinwrench]

If you go buy a car, license it, insure it, maintain it.......Then use it alot to taxi around people that don't have a license or a car.....Then one day when the car is roadfoundered and won't go another mile, who do you blame?

I blame YOU.  

[Gavin]

Insert black, jew, catholic, mental disability, etc in the place of poor, and your goose stepping with Adolf, Stalin, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Amin, and other mass murdering dictators.

[fishinwrench]

3 minutes ago, moguy1973 said:

I agree, and I'm total anti socialism, but killing people off because they are less desirable?  That's hideous.

Not everything in society is butterfly's and roses.