My teenage son and I were watching people come to the food pantry driving nice SUVs and with cell phones and jewelry. He made an astute observation:
“The only difference between poor and middle class in who pays for everything”
Yup. Go sit in the parking lot of your local county hospital/medical clinic and see the same stuff. They know how to get every free penny’s worth of stuff from the state, local and federal govts and live better than some of us who work to sweat.
You aren’t kiddin’ about the hospitals.
My son is a medical courier in Ohio. I almost fell over when he told me that the county hospital is a party on the weekends. He is chummy with the security guards at all of “his” facilities. At the biggest one in the state, the security guard is a middle-aged black gentleman, who is in a slow boil by the time my son gets there. What is this fella ranting & raving about?
“All these people, not intending to pay one cent to this hospital...are having pizzas delivered. Pizzas! They are having pizza delivered into the ER waiting area. High fiving each other like long lost friends and this is some reunion or something. Dressed like they’re going to a party and they are making fools of us. And they’re having pizzas delivered into the ER!”
My son went out and had a cigarette with this guy, he was so mad. And my son doesn’t smoke.