Loners

It was like having a freeloading relative show up with a sob story and who I couldn't manage to turn away. When I went back to work, usually against medical advice, things would get better, but I knew the sucker would always be back.

Health problems are not our fault, but you'll never get a Republican to admit that until they hit him, usually a him because he's got a wife to soothe his fevered brow and go out to work if necessary. They never get it until they're alone and disaster strikes, and disaster doesn't strike them nearly enough for them to get it and dump the cruel and idiotic neoliberalism.

It's my hope that SSDI is liberalized so that people who are too ill or injured to go out and work can afford to live without selling their blood and/or plasma. Trying to flog the sick into working by pushing them into dire poverty if they can't is not a policy any other rich country pursues. Ours shouldn't, either. It's a source of shame that it does.