I prefer the term cynicism and a common quote way back in 1939 says : "Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth". - Lillian Hellman David T. Wolf "Idealism is what precedes experience." I can't even believe what has transpired in our lives just this week!
It may take a short time for some folks or a long time for others to get kicked in the head by others enough times to be able to see that the world out there for centuries and centuries is a bad place. Well, it is people that make it that way. I think the big black actor in the movie *The Green Mile* sums it up quite well toward the end of the movie when he would prefer death over life and * why*. Lori Michaelson Age - 45 C4/5 complete quad, 29 years post Tucson, AZ On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:47 PM, John S. <[email protected]> wrote: > becoming bitter is something we all deal with. I personally feel normal > people think we are bitter when we vocalize our hatred of somne of these > crappy beds that medicaid calls a hospital bed. 20 years after ADA was > approved and how many of us really got much more than a good parking spot. > The whole point to waiver was to push the red tape aside and get you help. > Now, theres a waiting list. What does "WAIVER" mean to you? > In theory someone should make the deternmination that you meet the criteria > to have the CMS redtape waived and services begin immediately. The redtape > is to be handled later since you are obviously in need of assistance. like > every other medical program, It is now top heavy with lawyers and > politicians that get googobs of money from the program for slowing it to a > crawl. > You will find year old paperwork in lost files laying about their offices > while they are at the golf course or on sick leave since they already used > up their 5 months of vacation. > I have never seen a government program that was overloaded and straining at > the working level where you didn't find an incompetant boob at the top. > Virtually every gov't funded program for the handicapped is headed up by > someone that is undereducated, overpaid and completely insensative to our > needs. I have had to have an ambulance pick me up because I waited so long > for an access ride I becamne hypothermic. Instead of an appology I got a > "demoted priority for not being at the curb when the van showed up 3 hours > late. > > > So maybe your a little bitter. Get some stale bread and dark sunglesses and > go out and try to kill pidgeons with it. Try begging. The cool people just > need to know the system doesn't work. Get out and show them. > > Best Wishes, > john > > PS. Bitter....pffffffffft, my ass. How about pissed? > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Dan <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Thursday, September 17, 2009 2:37:18 PM > *Subject:* Re: [QUAD-L] patrick? > > ????? > > > At 10:09 PM 9/16/2009, Eric W Rudd said something that elicited my > response: > > >y am i so damn bitter...maybe takin showtime? > > > >Eric W Rudd > >[email protected] > > > -
