Should you be allowed to smoke and accept Welfare/Medicaid?

• BoatShoes

  believer;408098 wrote:On his own dime not mine.

  
  How can he earn a dime when he's paralyzed from the neck down...can move his arms but not feel or use his legs or his hands....but they have an apparatus that he can use with his teeth to attach to his hand so he can smoke....he paid taxes and medicare premiums but is only in his late twenties when he gets injured through no fault of his own by a drunk driver. You don't think he should be allowed to smoke because he's on medicaid?
• Jason Bourne

  

  No need for a family! We have the government!!!
  
  Let it be known... the breakdown of the family is the surest and fastest way to an America we don't recognize.
• believer

  

  BoatShoes;408113 wrote:There is no King holding you down and stealing from you....maybe a misguided and tyrannical majority, but if it be so, John Locke says you have a right to revolution and the Founder's agreed...if it's not time to revolt and don't revolt, you consent to those taxes because that's how republicanism and representative democracy works.

  November can't get here soon enough.
• CenterBHSFan

  

  BoatShoes;408192 wrote:How can he earn a dime when he's paralyzed from the neck down...can move his arms but not feel or use his legs or his hands....but they have an apparatus that he can use with his teeth to attach to his hand so he can smoke....he paid taxes and medicare premiums but is only in his late twenties when he gets injured through no fault of his own by a drunk driver. You don't think he should be allowed to smoke because he's on medicaid?

  BS, usually I take your "little stories" and/or hypotheticals with a grain of salt. But, really??? ^^^
  LOL, come on now!
• HitsRus

  

  I mean, can this totally be true? By definition it seems like we as a society have judged what they can spend their money on when we say it's illegal for people to purchase Heroin right?

  
  Illegal versus legal activity. Smoking/alcohol are legal substances. Foods stamps are money for a specific purpose.... for food. There is nothing wrong with that. General assistance checks are for living, and no one especially government should decide how a person should 'live'. If the activity or 'substance' is legal than a person should be able to spend that money on whatever they fell they need to live....whether it be smokes, alcohol, condoms... etc.
• BoatShoes

  CenterBHSFan;408475 wrote:BS, usually I take your "little stories" and/or hypotheticals with a grain of salt. But, really??? ^^^
  LOL, come on now!

  
  Ha well most of my stories are made up but this person is actually a real guy whom I know and is in a nursing home in Green Springs, Ohio! Was Injured on Hull Rd. in Huron, OH back in 1987 and against all odds is still alive today as a quadriplegic smoking and drinking beer the whole time as a quad!
• Tiernan

  I'd like to see a terrorist Anti-smoking organization come together and poison the country's tobacco industry.