A real ACA horror story that will never crumble.

[Zorra]

34. There is a very old sayng ~

"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink".

Meaning, in this case, I can't force this. His children are grown and not in college and I don't even know them. He's more of an acquaintance than a friend. The whole personal situation is not one where I have any real influence. I will offer again to help. If he refuses, there is nothing I can do. If he changes his mind, he knows where to find me. I'm quite sure he'll come around.

to top this off, just before I wrote this I offered to help another brainwashed conservative who has terrible debilitating arthritis and who obviously has serious COPD issues from smoking. His exact words were, "I don't need anything from the State, I'll be getting my Social Security in a few years, when I'm 63."


When I pointed out to him that SS is administered by the State, and that he will be eligible for SS when he turns 62, he said, "Well, it's my money. No, you can't collect SS until your 63, unless they lowered the age, and I never heard about it."


I've found it's nigh onto impossible to talk sense to conservatives, because so many of them are totally brainwashed and whose thought process are only rational to a limited degree, and I'm not going to waste my time trying to help people who don't want to be helped because their entire worldview has been shaped by Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.