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In reply to the discussion: "I don't think poor people should take from the govt" I busted out crying, "How can you SAY that?" [View all]hostalover
(447 posts)36. I debated about whether or not to include that. My son knows that many
of the patients who show up in his ER are bonafide patients with nowhere else to go. He has no problem with them and usually they do need medical attention, which they get. His frustration comes from the repeat patients (he knows some of them by first name) who come in only wanting drugs, which are prescribed in small doses. Some will use ambulances as a means to get to the hospital and expect rides home. Then there are the frivolous patients (true story, a man came in with splinters in his thumb). I'm sure my son exaggerates some, but he's a good man and a solid Dem--just a tired one sometimes.
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"I don't think poor people should take from the govt" I busted out crying, "How can you SAY that?" [View all]
jodymarie aimee
Nov 2018
OP
People don't know that the Catholic Church was a powerful supporter of unions.
olegramps
Nov 2018
#14
If you are interested this is my Nov letter...I am rich in many things, just not MONEY.
jodymarie aimee
Nov 2018
#8
Part of the problem that I've noticed is that the rightwingers see what they consider abuse of the
hostalover
Nov 2018
#26
Abuse of ER's? Isn't the ER where republicans told people without insurance to go?
Merlot
Nov 2018
#35
Right-wingers know how to stoke self-righteous sentiment in middle-class voters
sandensea
Nov 2018
#25
There used to be a time when people, including religious, believed in govt. help for poor
lovemydogs
Nov 2018
#46
Yeah, modern Christianity seems to be a perversion of what it used to be.
Zing Zing Zingbah
Nov 2018
#48