Wanna Help The Disabled? Get Out of the WAY!

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Subject: Re: More on Ayn Rand

Hunter said,

"Her points about the importance of work and earning one's living are in reference to able-bodied people. I think that most fiscally conservative minded people take for granted that assistance should always been offered to those who are disabled. It's the able-bodied, able-minded lazy that people don't like to pay for."

Disabled people often appreciate the importance of work and earning a living. Many of us don't want hand outs. Many of us could work, if society wasn't so prejudiced, unaccepting and unaccomodating.
The problem with assistance coming from temporarily able bodied people is that they generally don't have a clue what disabled people really need. They pre-set their agendas and the disabled damn well better conform to their standards or just disappear, the ingrates!

Attitudes are the real disabilities
As for the able bodied, able minded lazy people: those are the corporate welfare recipients, I assume, of which you speak (ala Cheney, Lay, et al)? Tax payers have been subsidizing their laziness for years and, thanks to globalization, it's going to get worse.

I've lived around those who receive food stamps, housing authority, aid to families with dependent children, etc for many years now. I have yet to meet a lazy one. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. We hustle for every dime and crumb.

Rogi