re: Anyone ever notice that cars driven by poor people have a distinct sound?

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Addiction is a choice.

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not with pain meds. These big pharmaceutical companies have killed thousands

Everyone knows the painkillers are addictive. It's up to you to either use them responsibly or find alternatives.

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the poor person car sound

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You are one creative cat

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Any person working and paying their own way gets some respect from me.

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Amen. If a man (or woman) is working a job, I have respect for that. How much they earn is none of my business.

My wife and I have a family we helped years ago. Two adults two children, they were standing outside the local WM with a sign "desparate to feed kids, will do any job to feed kids" they barely rolled into town in their piece of shite car before it broke down. They stretched their money as far as they could then just ran out, and no one would hire them because well to be frank they were dirty and stank from lack of laundry and bathroom facilities.

I have a big farm and there is always work that needs to be done. So a deal was made, let's feed your family we'll go home do some farm work yall can get some showers and such, do some laundry.

THat was 6 years ago, The dad ended up being the best farm hand we've ever tried to hire, the mother found herself a good job in tow, the kids are in school and doing great. They are living in my rental house, have never missed rent, and I've even cosigned for a vehicle for them.

Perhaps part of their problem was poor choices in the past, but all they needed was a helping hand. We surprised them last year by telling them that all the rent they have been paying on the house they are staying in is going towards building equity in the home and that in 10 more years they will own the house outright.

Just a younger couple that needed a break.

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the winning is just starting for me.

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You might be doing well now but don't think that life can't take away everything you have in a split second. You're one catastrophic illness or injury away from driving "a poor person car". Develop cancer, yes it can happen to people in their 20's, or suffer a bad back injury forcing you on disability and you're in deep shite financially.

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The only people I look down on are the fat fricks who ride the handicapped carts through the grocery store because they are fat fricks who are too lazy to walk.

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I hate them mostly because my grandpa only had one leg and actually needed one as he got older and there never was any around for him because some fatass needed one to get more chips and pop.

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You might be doing well now but don't think that life can't take away everything you have in a split second. You're one catastrophic illness or injury away from driving "a poor person car". Develop cancer, yes it can happen to people in their 20's, or suffer a bad back injury forcing you on disability and you're in deep shite financially

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Guy I know here in North Alabama use to have a multimillion dollar construction business. He specialized in of all things going around and remodeling fast-food joints. Made a killing doing McDonalds. I knew of him because he used Cat equipment to redo the parking lots.

Anyway, he was doing great, had two girls in college, living the American dream. Then one day his wife went to the doctor and found out she had ovarian cancer that had already started to spread to her other organs. Before it was over he had sold off everything to pay medical bills, girls withdrew from college (Alabama and Sanford) and I think ended up going to Gadsden State Community College. In the end he was left widowed, bankrupt, living in a rented doublewide and working as an excavator operator for construction company.

The whole process took like 2-3 years.

ETA: his main hobby before all this happened was he collected and raced antique Porsches. Dude was loaded.

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Shouldn't his health insurance covered that?

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Let me clue you in in health insurance and catastrophic medical events, and I speak from experence as you know. If you have a truly massive medical event like cancer, massive injury from something like a car accident, open-heart surgery, or something along those lines, the VERY best medical insurance available might (key word being might) keep you from going into bankruptcy. That's if you're lucky.

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Aetna will prolly frick me at some point

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Go pull out your health insurance policy. Now look down at all the fine print. You know what all that fine print is about? It's there to keep them from paying for shite they "cover".

Remember me telling you the medical bills from my heart stuff total a little over one million dollars? Using my wife's insurance (BC/BS through the State of Alabama) my out of pocket costs were a little over $4,000.00 counting home hospice care for two months. If I had been on the BC/BS through my work, my out of pocket costs would have been at least three, maybe four times that much. Andcthat policy is considered one of he top of the line private plans available. If I'd have had a cheap plan then I'd have been truly fricked. When it comes to massive medical events, insurance is almost useless. But you have to have it because the only thing worse than having insurance is not having it.