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The government programs allowed us to live independently.

Except you aren't living independently --- but that's one of the big flaws in the system --- you might have worked many years and paid in ---- but now you're living on the same programs as the loafers who never have worked, never intend to work are --- and they are able-bodied. There should be insurance plans that cover long-term disability but the able bodied should be required to work for a living.

Thanks for what you've said. Ability to work is the key, isn't it? Thank God, I'll have that ability once again no later than March.

However, I am living independently. I have my own home on two acres of land in the countryside (bought and paid for in the years in which I worked). I could sell, and live off of the money from the proceeds. However, if I did that, I would lose all "benefits", and rightfully so. Our resoruces would then last a mathematical limit of 2 1/2 years. At the end of that time, we would be homeless .. read that public housing, foodstamps, public healthcare, and so on. It would be the end of our independence.

And so, we live in our home, and make ends meet with whatever resources are available to us. That has been the way of my life, and shall continue to be so.