just a RANT

**imported_MOX** · August 8th, 2008, 04:01 PM

Just wanted to rant for a minute about something that really bugs the piss outta me ....now I know that we live in a "poor" area of the United States and I know that alot of people in this area truly need help with things like social security, medicaid, food stamps and things like that ...but the thing that pisses me off is these people who are just too damn sorry to get off their asses and work, the ones who are very capable of working but just dont want to all they want to do is sit around on their ass and get everything handed to em while they pop out kid after kid and take the kids to the ER everytime it has a runny nose and then you take the hard working people like us who bust our asses everyday but cant afford to go to the doctor ....it just really rubs me the wrong way

**Unchained** · August 8th, 2008, 04:02 PM

Oh don't get us started [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/mad.gif[/img]

I feel ya

**centennialdawg** · August 8th, 2008, 05:21 PM

Damn dude, too late, he done went and got us started. I agree with you on your assesment whole heartedly. If more of the people who cared about what is happening with our system would call and "turn some of these deadbeats in" then we would have it much simpler.

**burton2019** · August 8th, 2008, 05:23 PM

This ought to be fun........

**MikMo** · August 8th, 2008, 06:02 PM

With my last job and my current job, I see nothing but abuses of the system. I work for a medical equipment company now and the main abuse I see is people wanting oxygen tanks out the wazoo every week. Corporate just passed a regulation that no one is to get portable tanks that isn't qualified. We have been giving people portables that weren't qualified just to keep their business. No more. And of course, it falls to me to have to tell these people "We can't give you any more portables." What kills me about it is they have a concentrator in their homes (for you that don't know, a machine that pumps out 02) and they still want to have tanks, mostly just for show. You go into a dr's office carrying an 02 tank and you're more likely to get better treatment, as in waiting time and such. I've had to tell a handful of people so far about the new regulation and I've been called everything but a widow woman.

**centennialdawg** · August 8th, 2008, 07:31 PM

Thank God I don't need an oxygen tank, afterall, I have had 2 pulmonary emboli and am left with a pretty deficient right lung because of them. Along with sarcoidosis that effects my lungs. But, you know something, it kinda makes me laugh about the oxygen tanks. I see people everyday with those things, puffing away on a cancer stick at the same time with a nasal canula on them, pulling a tank or carrying one of those shoulder carried jobs with them.

**jtw61194** · August 8th, 2008, 08:19 PM

So, what happened to "work smarter, not harder"? [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]

**steer** · August 8th, 2008, 11:52 PM

what gets me... at work the other day a customer comes in and gives me a big story on how he quit work, and doesn't have long to live, because he was diagnosed with cancer. I felt really bad... for a second.. then he lights up a cigarette and continues to smoke 3 within a 20 minute conversation.. i'm not joking.. I lost all that feeling sorry for him.. some people

**imported_elp6n** · August 8th, 2008, 11:59 PM

My favorite (sad but true) bumper sticker:
"work harder - millions on welfare depend on you"

**MikMo** · August 9th, 2008, 11:41 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: centennialdawg</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Thank God I don't need an oxygen tank, afterall, I have had 2 pulmonary emboli and am left with a pretty deficient right lung because of them. Along with sarcoidosis that effects my lungs. But, you know something, it kinda makes me laugh about the oxygen tanks. I see people everyday with those things, puffing away on a cancer stick at the same time with a nasal canula on them, pulling a tank or carrying one of those shoulder carried jobs with them.
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We have one 02 patient here, nice as she can be...every time she calls, she's just as nice and polite as anyone you've ever seen. However, everyone in the office says she runs a big drug ring out of her home. They point to a picture of her being busted that was on the front page of the local paper a few years ago...carrying one of our 02 tanks! Great publicity!