Honey, I dumped our disabled kid!! (at a homeless shelter)

[undergroundpanther]

In an all-time blow to families caring for disabled kids, budget crunches are having a calamitous impact in Indiana, where state workers are advising caregivers to leave severely-disabled people at homeless shelters, the Associated Press reports.


http://www.parentdish.com/2010/10/28/parents-told-to-dump-disabled-kids-at-homeless-shelters/?ncid=txtlnkwbbbab00000002

It looks like social security is gonna get cut..I can't afford it to be cut.I will not survive.
I wrote about this problem with SSI cuts and disability in 2005.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5106110

[Hannah Bell]

1. a horror show. how could you live with yourself giving that advice.

[undergroundpanther]

5. If I told parents to ABANDON their own kids

At a homeless shelter, I'd might as well kill myself because I would have Betrayed my own conscience to the point I would not be able to bear the shame.

[lapislzi]

12. Kinda brings that whole murder/suicide thing into perspective, doesn't it?

I might be tempted to off myself and my kid if that was my only option.

[asdjrocky]

2. Wow. Now that is evil.

This an evil and sick system. They whole thing needs to come down.

[truedelphi]

3. What a sick society we live in.

And things are only going to get worse.

[upi402]

4. kick&rec'd nothing to add, nothing to say

[progressoid]

6. Reaganomics part deux

[pnorman]

7. "A Modest Proposal"

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public,<1> commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift suggests in his essay that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies.<2> By doing this he mocks the authority of the British officials.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm

[hobbit709]

9. What was satire then is almost reality today.

THAT is the scary part.

[stray cat]

8. If cuts occur for group homes many elderly can not care 24-7 for severely disabled

Adult children or siblings. A similar problem will occur with those with alzheimers

[LiberalEsto]

10. Drop them off at the U.S. Capitol

and ask the House and Senate to deal with them.

[ceile]

11. no words...

:banghead:

[Tsiyu]

13. but, but we're a Christian nation

i suppose if Jesus were a greedy, narcissistic sociopath with no regard for human life or "the least of these" he would be real happy with treating people as human refuse



k & r

[Javaman]

14. Many of us will not survive. that is the repuke plan. nt

[Taverner]

15. Good give those disabled kids some "tough love"

Its what Jesus would do...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgN9wFNOV_g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkKPtUywY-8&feature=related

[Jkid]

16. This is actually old news.

And the state government has already told them that it was not their policy to give advice like that.

[rbixby]

17. What's wrong with Indiana?

Isn't this the state where all those reports of bullying have been coming from too?

[mmonk]

18. Yep.

[Ezlivin]

19. Bob Cratchit is a son-of-a-bitch

You mean after Scrooge paid for Tiny Tim's treatment his damned father just dumped him?

Bah, humbug!