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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 04:16 PM
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Responsibility=don't go to college if you're poor, or don't get sick?
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Edited on Mon Mar-06-06 04:21 PM by AlienGirl
Kid from a poor family runs up student loans, then gets chronically ill. Can't be employed because nobody wants to hire someone who is going to be sick about seven days out of every month. Goes on Social Security as disabled. Can just barely afford medicine on what she gets.

Where was she irresponsible--by going to college, despite being born poor? Or by becoming ill? Maybe by being born to a poor family in the first place?

Should she just go off and die, relieving the taxpayers of the burden? 'Cause that's what happens if she can't get her medicine and other treatments, which the checks are just barely covering, and which the checks will no longer cover once the Department of Education gets their cut.

Tucker
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