The Memories Pizza owner couple ended up on Blaze today. (some personal whining)
What happens when you toot your horn publicly with a completely bigoted position?
They, of course, caught the sympathies of Mr. Glenn Beck and his Blaze multimedia empire who, in just one day, have raised over $260,000 for the owner and his wife, and which is expected to grow by an unknown amount before the timer runs out.
That, for anyone such as myself who barely scrapes by on disability, is going to represent a bare minumum of 20 years' pay. For those whose disability checks are far less than the roughly $1,200 I get, this could be closer to 30 years, and even possibly more!
http://www.discussionist.com/1015412695
Here's the Discussionist thread which has the Blaze segment the owners are on.
You gotta watch that video, even though it's The Blaze.
I'm toying with the idea of setting up a funding drive for my wife and I, once I finally go home from ten straight months away from home in hospitals and rehabs, if there are unmet needs once all of the assistance from various Medicaid programs settles. Never in my wildest dreams was I expecting even enough for a used rust bucket, or the funds and ability to leave Las Vegas forever, but what the hell?? Anyone got a shiny, new Volkswagen Jetta TDI with the upgraded stereo and options package they wanna send my way? Maybe enough cash left over after that to pay our rent on a one-bedroom apartment in a nicer part of Vegas, or perhaps just a cooler, greener city altogether, for oh, I dunno...maybe 25 or 30 years... for my wife and I?
Just what the hell is my point here? It's that even when you are in desperate need of help and want to ask for it, you see things like this and just shut down, thinking why bother...?
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You summarized beautifully, exactly how I feel on this subject, and why I have never asked for any form of direct assistance!
But that day is gonna have to come. I will have to face the reality that I may get very little if for no other reason than I don't have that sort of "strong sense of morality" you describe. There's not much of a romantic feel to, "Mr. X here overate until he became very sick and now he's unable to work. The government provides him with enough to just barely exist on, but when that simply isn't enough then you, the reading public, are all he's got to turn to."
Who gives a damn when there are probably a good few hundred thousand guys and gals like me floating around out there? 
...and really let a bunch of people know what's what.
I'm all for it, because local businesses need our support anyway! May as well make sure our money goes to the truly progressive ones. I guarantee you they're going to be ten times more pleasant (on average) to work for! 
...including myself are in serious need? You know damn well that there's enough hidden in all those goddamn banker bonuses to make a lot of downtrodden people feel very secure. 
