<< My question, however, was based on an interest in how those who are contemptuous of welfare recipients feel about welfare for their own overweight family members, specifically. Do you think your fat old family members and friends shouldn't get welfare, eg medicare? Should they, ideally, refuse it?>>
Well let me say this, one of the coffee shop guys, a die hard union guy who has blossomed up to about 270 pounds over his healthful weight, now sits around and is a real pain in the ass. He makes demands on those who drive him around, can't hear and can't see. He gets a pension, medicare, SS. He paid into them so yep he should get them even as obnoxious as he is.
And as for other risky behaviors, smokers tend to die early and not eat up benefits. Same way with winos like me. |
