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[Collowrath]

Aino Ailill

Kuroiban

Calixti

Next week, I have to beg my Spanish teacher to not fail me due to repeated absences. That will require explaining to her that I'm sick, a lot, and that ANY fever over a hundred degrees or ANY trouble breathing whatsoever does have to be treated as a medical emergency for me and getting my a** to the doctor has to take precedence over class--because if I don't, and it's NOT a medical emergency at that point, it'll become one and it could kill me.

That's never a fun conversation.

Can I have a body that actually works? emo

That blows. cry

Do you have proper documentation of the disorder, the diagnosis, and the visits to said doctor? If so, the teacher can't really do anything (provided you live in the US, where I'm sure that she can't fail you) about your attendance because it's medical in nature and documented.

Not true. I attend FSU and, even for medical emergencies, should I miss four classes in Chem Lab, I get an automatic zero. Likewise, if I miss classes in Latin or in Etymology over 'x' number (4 and 3, respectively), then my final grade gets docked by a set number of points.

The university should have a Disability Services Office or something like that for students with recurring medical issues, whether a physical disability, or something like bi-polar that can flare up without your control and prevent you from making the classes. They can alert the professor to the problem and work with them to make the classes passable.

Ultimately though, it's up to the professor, but more often than not (at least at my university) the rules are mutable given extraordinary circumstances (so long as you can make up what you missed and pass the final). If there is a serious problem, talk to whatever disability services your university offers, and if the professor refuses to work with you, switch.  

[Bastemhet]

I'm so pissed. I just had the pleasure of conversing with an acquaintance that is so against government taxes that he would rather keep $50 than have it taken in taxes to be given as Temporary Aid to Need Families and possibly paying for sweaters for children whose parents would otherwise not afford it. Does anyone have some good sources for me to learn about the welfare system of the U.S.? I just can't believe there's anyone so selfish that they'd rather someone go homeless and hungry in the streets with their children than have their taxes help supplement a family who "shouldn't have had kids they can't afford in the first place."

stressed  

[Gho the Girl]

Sophist

I'm so pissed. I just had the pleasure of conversing with an acquaintance that is so against government taxes that he would rather keep $50 than have it taken in taxes to be given as Temporary Aid to Need Families and possibly paying for sweaters for children whose parents would otherwise not afford it. Does anyone have some good sources for me to learn about the welfare system of the U.S.? I just can't believe there's anyone so selfish that they'd rather someone go homeless and hungry in the streets with their children than have their taxes help supplement a family who "shouldn't have had kids they can't afford in the first place."

stressed

"Well why don't they just get a job?" stare  

[aoijea23487]

I am raging.

I drive my friends everywhere. To the store, to the airport, to the train station, to their mom's house... everywhere. Rarely get paid, but that's okay, they're my friends, right?

No.

I get a phone call while driving to my cousin's house (a family member I rarely see), and this guy acts like I have an obligation to inform him of my schedule and create it in deference to his, then tells me that it's okay and we can go see the movie later when I get back.

So I leave my cousin's birthday party early to go pick them up and take them, but they ditched me and found another ride instead.

So I got lied to and ditched. Thanks for the payment, guys. ******** that.  

[Bastemhet]

Gho the Girl

Sophist

I'm so pissed. I just had the pleasure of conversing with an acquaintance that is so against government taxes that he would rather keep $50 than have it taken in taxes to be given as Temporary Aid to Need Families and possibly paying for sweaters for children whose parents would otherwise not afford it. Does anyone have some good sources for me to learn about the welfare system of the U.S.? I just can't believe there's anyone so selfish that they'd rather someone go homeless and hungry in the streets with their children than have their taxes help supplement a family who "shouldn't have had kids they can't afford in the first place."

stressed

"Well why don't they just get a job?" stare

Right, they're all "drug using" miscreants who don't have "valid reasons" to receive money "they didn't work for." *fume*

I cannot believe the ignorance and blanket condemnation. Things like this make me lose hope in my fellow man.  

[Gho the Girl]

Sophist

Gho the Girl

Sophist

I'm so pissed. I just had the pleasure of conversing with an acquaintance that is so against government taxes that he would rather keep $50 than have it taken in taxes to be given as Temporary Aid to Need Families and possibly paying for sweaters for children whose parents would otherwise not afford it. Does anyone have some good sources for me to learn about the welfare system of the U.S.? I just can't believe there's anyone so selfish that they'd rather someone go homeless and hungry in the streets with their children than have their taxes help supplement a family who "shouldn't have had kids they can't afford in the first place."

stressed

"Well why don't they just get a job?" stare

Right, they're all "drug using" miscreants who don't have "valid reasons" to receive money "they didn't work for." *fume*

I cannot believe the ignorance and blanket condemnation. Things like this make me lose hope in my fellow man.

Don't lose hope.  

[too2sweet]

The welfare system in this country is screwy anyways though, because unless you are unwed with a parcel of kiddos, the best you can hope to get is Medicaid and Food Stamps.

Because obviously health insurance (especially when one has no money to pay the copays) is so much better than getting assistance with stuff like the electric bill, or paying for luxury items like laundry detergent and toothpaste. rolleyes

What would really be helpful is if they actually helped you find a job...that would be really nice.  

[Fiddlers Green]

The grand experiment of the U.S. failed.
The question was whether people could live free, with all the burdens and responsibility that carries. We went as close to non-governance as we could. The results were clearly manifest. The most extreme example, and where the experiment truely ended, was the Great Depression. People proved, whether thru foolishness, wickedness, or turn of chance, that they could not fend for themselves.
The second the nobility ruling class government had to step in and fix problems of starvation, profiteering and an impending communist revolution, we lost.
Regardless of the legality or morality of the New Deal, it was the final nail in the coffin of the American Dream. The one where where Free men and women lived by their own strength and the only limits on the heights you could soar to or the depths you could plunge to were your own ambition, cunning, and luck.
Some people don't realize this. Some still think the Union of states that the Framers designed still exists in anything more than name. They forget the lessons that ended that. They scream about taxes to support other people, with an inkling that was never something the framers wanted the federal government to handle. It does show. The Federal government, never designed to handle such projects, has routinely demonstrated gross incompetence. Sometimes it seems almost maliciously so. Regardless, it is set to a task it was never meant for. as the federal government has taken more and more powers upon itself, without sufficient amendment to it's core governing document, it has illustrated how unfit for those tasks it is. This throws fuel on the fire of constitutional scholars, and makes of them strange bedfellows with greedy and selfish forces that are utterly heartless and desirous to take advantage of what was designed to be a weak central government.
The U.S. was designed to be something between a nation and an international organization. There is a reason the constituents were called States, like, nation-states. It was thought that each state would self-regulate, within it's own borders. Each state would agree to certain commonalities with the other states that were members of it's union/confederacy. Such as common currency (like the Euro). Open borders free of tariffs between partners in this arrangement. A united front against non-member states who would attack member states. This wasn't a unified nation! This was a fore-runner to such bodies as the EU, NAFTA, and OPEC.
It failed tho.
On so many levels it failed. Federal and State governments both bear the blame for this. It didn't fail all at once. There were times when entire states failed to act as independent bodies or allowed themselves to be corrupted. There were times when the federal government ignored it's mandate and the limitations on it's power and used most cruel and illegal means to assert greater centralization of power. Blamestorming will accomplish little tho. The states are now too crippled in their power to actually see to the well being of the citizens, so now it falls to the force that hobbled them to take up the slack.
To point, as a constitutional scholar and a patriot, I find most federal acts repugnant. As a human with some concern for the concept of the suffering of others and realization of the wickedness of some, I cannot oppose them with any real zeal.
The economies of the states are not equal. A dollar, as fiat currency, has no actual value, and no standard buying power. !@#$ we don't even use a standard tax, we use percentage, showing the lack of objective value of currency for all to see. What a dollar can do in one state is far less or far more than what t can do in another state. Federal attempts at wealth redistribution have never revealed to me that that level of government has any real grasp of this fact.
Simply put, the task of caring for the people internally was within the mandate of the States, not the Federation. The Federal government was to protect the people externally. But that is the past.
The truth is, now it is a !@#$ mess that will likely never resemble anything the Framers ever intended.
A horrible, sloppy mess.
At least someone is trying to clean it up. My rant aside, I do not hate his mop. It is the only mop on the floor right now. I love his mop. I don't really give a %$^# if it is an expensive socialist mop. My love and loyalty to my nation does not trump my humanity. I am an idealist. A better world is as true an ideal as a national concept. It is also an ideal I can actually do something to support. If anyone has any better mops, let's see them on the mess.  

[Aino Ailill]

Ageist ********.  

[Violet Song jat Shariff]

crying

Nothing like being told "It's just a bad day; you'll get over it." while I'm explaining to my shift leader (through tears) that a) I have depression and b) it's very much in the driver's seat at the moment. And then being treated by some other co-workers like depression isn't a real illness and I'm just being fussy.

Oh.

And then coming home and finding out my favorite uncle died last week.

It has been a very long day.  

[Gho the Girl]

@Fiddler:
America, just as all works of mortal creatures are, is flawed.  

[chaoticpuppet]

I guess cleaning 1 hour a week takes too much time out of your study schedule... except that you study for only 6 hrs and skip class every other day to study.

Seriously, if we both cleaned this place once a week, it would only take a ******** HOUR.  

[too2sweet]

Violet Song jat Shariff

crying

Nothing like being told "It's just a bad day; you'll get over it." while I'm explaining to my shift leader (through tears) that a) I have depression and b) it's very much in the driver's seat at the moment. And then being treated by some other co-workers like depression isn't a real illness and I'm just being fussy.

Oh.

And then coming home and finding out my favorite uncle died last week.

It has been a very long day.

*snugs a Vi* heart heart heart heart heart

Being depressed sucks. I'm stuck in my own pit at the moment as well, but you know I'm always around if you need someone to talk to. I don't always say much, but I'm a really good listener. heart

Yesterday was pretty shitty for me as well. I took Giff out to get something to eat, since he hasn't been eating well at home. The place we went to was a pizza buffet place (he likes pizza), and he went right in, and had no problems until after I'd already paid and tried to get him to sit down. Then he freaked out. Now I know he doesn't understand, and it's not his fault, but it still made me really mad. Not only did we waste money that I don't really have to spend anyways, but in his kicking, screaming and hitting me (which really hurts now that he's older), he broke my goddess necklace (the one I've worn every day for the last 10+ years). I know I can get a new chain, but I can't actually afford it right now (or anytime soon), so it was just a bit more than I could take on top of everything else. It's really hard not to be depressed when nothing good ever happens...just crap piled on top of more crap.

Well... anyways....enough of my little pity party redface  

[FlySammyJ]

Fiddlers Green

The grand experiment of the U.S. failed.
The question was whether people could live free, with all the burdens and responsibility that carries. We went as close to non-governance as we could. The results were clearly manifest. The most extreme example, and where the experiment truely ended, was the Great Depression. People proved, whether thru foolishness, wickedness, or turn of chance, that they could not fend for themselves.
The second the nobility ruling class government had to step in and fix problems of starvation, profiteering and an impending communist revolution, we lost.
Regardless of the legality or morality of the New Deal, it was the final nail in the coffin of the American Dream. The one where where Free men and women lived by their own strength and the only limits on the heights you could soar to or the depths you could plunge to were your own ambition, cunning, and luck.
Some people don't realize this. Some still think the Union of states that the Framers designed still exists in anything more than name. They forget the lessons that ended that. They scream about taxes to support other people, with an inkling that was never something the framers wanted the federal government to handle. It does show. The Federal government, never designed to handle such projects, has routinely demonstrated gross incompetence. Sometimes it seems almost maliciously so. Regardless, it is set to a task it was never meant for. as the federal government has taken more and more powers upon itself, without sufficient amendment to it's core governing document, it has illustrated how unfit for those tasks it is. This throws fuel on the fire of constitutional scholars, and makes of them strange bedfellows with greedy and selfish forces that are utterly heartless and desirous to take advantage of what was designed to be a weak central government.
The U.S. was designed to be something between a nation and an international organization. There is a reason the constituents were called States, like, nation-states. It was thought that each state would self-regulate, within it's own borders. Each state would agree to certain commonalities with the other states that were members of it's union/confederacy. Such as common currency (like the Euro). Open borders free of tariffs between partners in this arrangement. A united front against non-member states who would attack member states. This wasn't a unified nation! This was a fore-runner to such bodies as the EU, NAFTA, and OPEC.
It failed tho.
On so many levels it failed. Federal and State governments both bear the blame for this. It didn't fail all at once. There were times when entire states failed to act as independent bodies or allowed themselves to be corrupted. There were times when the federal government ignored it's mandate and the limitations on it's power and used most cruel and illegal means to assert greater centralization of power. Blamestorming will accomplish little tho. The states are now too crippled in their power to actually see to the well being of the citizens, so now it falls to the force that hobbled them to take up the slack.
To point, as a constitutional scholar and a patriot, I find most federal acts repugnant. As a human with some concern for the concept of the suffering of others and realization of the wickedness of some, I cannot oppose them with any real zeal.
The economies of the states are not equal. A dollar, as fiat currency, has no actual value, and no standard buying power. !@#$ we don't even use a standard tax, we use percentage, showing the lack of objective value of currency for all to see. What a dollar can do in one state is far less or far more than what t can do in another state. Federal attempts at wealth redistribution have never revealed to me that that level of government has any real grasp of this fact.
Simply put, the task of caring for the people internally was within the mandate of the States, not the Federation. The Federal government was to protect the people externally. But that is the past.
The truth is, now it is a !@#$ mess that will likely never resemble anything the Framers ever intended.
A horrible, sloppy mess.
At least someone is trying to clean it up. My rant aside, I do not hate his mop. It is the only mop on the floor right now. I love his mop. I don't really give a %$^# if it is an expensive socialist mop. My love and loyalty to my nation does not trump my humanity. I am an idealist. A better world is as true an ideal as a national concept. It is also an ideal I can actually do something to support. If anyone has any better mops, let's see them on the mess.

"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time," said Mr. Churchill.