“It’s always been the plight of the elderly and the families with young children that hurt my heart the most. I very much liked your reference to generous people, and am cooking up a plan in my head to figuratively “adopt” a few people and help them anonymously. Sort of like the Big Brothers / Big Sisters program that I recently mentioned to another Freeper.”
We have a friend we have “adopted”. He lived in Texas, and was fighting with the social security offices there to get his SS. It took him over a year to even get an appointment to start the process and much longer to get any benefits......and not backdated.... (he was told he was in line behind all the illegals) He would have starved had we not sent money occasionally. These kinds of failures are the ones who make me so angry about the bureaucrats in our government.
Reply to post 3308-Sometimes, not often, when I get in line at the grocery store and the customer ahead of me is having difficulty paying (using several different cards which are declined) and not having the cash, I offer to pay for their groceries. Both the customer and the cashier are amazed that I would do this. Wish I could do it more often.
Agreed! Let's hope that beginning Monday, that [expletive self-deleted] will begin being dismantled.