You say these folks have nowhere to turn for help??? Do they have no saleable assets?? Do they have no family to help? Besides yourself do they have no neighbors to help? Do they have no church community help? No one goes through life without a helping hand once in awhile so whats going on here? Are they to proud to ask for help?
I for one commend this elderly couple for sitting in the cold instead of running to the government. If they get cold enough and learn a little humility, they'll eventually ask for help or they will be cold by their own choice.
I for one would burn every piece of furniture in my house before I asked anyone for help. Whatever happened to being embarrassed to be on welfare or government assisstance? I also commend Old Ford Mechanic for looking out for them and getting neighbors to help. Thats the way it should be. The government should be a last resort, not the first option as many of you think. I'll bet Old Ford and a few neighbors will not only get the heat on, but will also contact a few family members, they'll have the local church members check in on them with a hot meal and conversation, someone will eventually help sort out a few finances to keep the heat on all winter. All without any government program that will cost all of us ten times the money to implement with one tenth the results Old Ford & Co can provide.
Part of the problem of todays society is that all responsibilities have been shed by everyone because now the government will do it all for free. Kids don't take care of parents in their old age. Neighbors don't help each other. Churches get a black eye if they offer to help. Some of you people and your responses just show how far this nation has come from being self-reliant individuals who give to those in need to a bunch of dependents who take what they can get away with because they don't have to answer to anyone. Free prescriptions, heating assistance, tax reductions for the elderly. Where do you people think the money comes from? The government is nothing more than you and me!! The government is nothing more than your own neighbors. Only people today don't have to look you in the eye and ask for your help with their hat in hand and be thankfull to you or responsible for how they spend what they receive. Whats more, people today don't even ask for help from the government, they demand help from the government (you and me)and they are so bold as to say they "deserve" or are "entitled" to your money via programs and assistance. How would you feel if you came home from a hard days work and your sitting at your supper table with your hungry kids with a meal purchased by your hard labor and someone knocked on your door and DEMANDED you fill his fist with cash because he's wandered around all day doing nothing and now he's cold and hungry? We are a generous people here in the US and will help when asked, but I have a big problem with people who think I owe them everything via the government just because they don't live within their means or waste their paycheck on non-essentials and always make poor life choices. Lets help these people help themselves instead of making them one more pair of dependents sucking on the hind teat of our government.
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