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The problem is not so much that they're Chinese, it's that they're old people. Old people can justify all kinds of penny-pinching and wheedling by claiming they're "on a fixed income" or that "Social Security isn't enough to get by on."

I hope I die a horrible death rather than resort to sponging off others in my dotage.

Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I too am sick of geezers whining about their fixed incomes and having to pay for prescriptions while they live in their paid for homes, and adequate savings. Meanwhile, they have their medical bills paid by me. At the same time, they're collecting SS far in excess of what they ever paid in. Then they want to pick my pocket again for prescriptions.

Eskimos had it right when they floated their geezers out.

They have free dinners on Monday nights at a local church here in town but people don't go because they don't want to take advantage. We have a free thanksgiving dinner every year and not many people go to that either, unfortunately. We finally put on the posters that donations are accepted from those who wish to pay. We had a larger group attend last year. I'd go to the free dinner once in a while if my hubby would but mostly for fellowship and not because we need to. We had free sandwich and soup lunches at our church for a while but very few came. People aren't poor enough here, I guess. Our county IS one of the poorest in NY state but there are good outreaches for them, I'll say that much. How DO you turn anyone away without knowing whether or not they really are poor? You can't.