What amazes me is that people like you expect others (just where do you think the government gets their money?) to take care of them. So you had to drive him for six weeks. Or you could have tried to get a ride from a co-worker or a neighbor going the same direction. Big deal. It was temporary and solvable. Not something the government should have been involved in or paid for.
I didn’t expect the government to pick up my hubby. I just saw that van coming into my subdivision EVERY SINGLE MORNING to pick up a ‘senior’ to go to bingo or whatever. Why couldn’t they pick up my spouse at the same time and take him to town, since they were going there anyway? If you are going to tax us to give out a perk, then give it out to everyone that needs it, or only to people that truly can’t afford it.