I need some RICH depressed friends :)

Hang on ... ObamaCare is on its way.

mwahaha!

Wow, I can so relate to this -- my guess is far too many of us can relate. Too much suffering where with good care we would be up and going again. All greed based where without resources if coping alone with illness -- good as dead in so many ways.

I'm with you -- fed up completely by the status quo.

VOTE people who are oppressed -- that is our only chance for change to improve the quality of our lives. No vote = no power to change anything much at all.

Keep hanging in there -- and VOTE people!!!

:-) Patricia

I really don't think it is the rich, .. or poor, taxpayers. Maybe ... but this is more likely the problem .. I would think:

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2009/10/50-examples-of-government-waste (October 6, 2009). I am SURE it is MUCH worse now.

I think i'll start my subscription today!

Great web site Wandering Vet, add the three calligraphers in the white house whose salaries are each over $100,000.

Thanks for the resource, WV.

I am just tired of the stigma that people who need a little boost to get back on their feet receive. None of us ask for this illness. But all those who mock me, doubt me, try to hold me back, just fuel me to prove them all wrong. I am not going to let depression beat me. I will make something out of my life and will give back to this world. While those that mock me, doubt me, and try to hold me back will be stuck with their meaningless existence. I will get the last laugh. Fudge depression.

i like that...Fudge depression...yea!

Blue,

I agree, those in need do have a rough time in this country with a CERTAIN SECTOR in society, not the society as a whole.

Don't forget, my friend, the government and those who are better off ACCUSE the impoverished, those in need, of being leeches off the tax payers, but, in fact,

these same government officials and the WEALTHY have their hands in the SYSTEM as well, except they aren't in NEED, they only suffer from GREED, taking advantage of government programs that benefit their wallets, also at the expense of the American taxpayer. But, you won't hear much about their antics; it's always the attack to put the spending problem on the poor and needy's back, you'll primarily hear from them.

The system is broken; our government's spending is way out of wack, but the programs that also need to be ADJUSTED are the ones that benefit the WEALTHY and the POLITICIANS and this wreckless spending agenda of theirs; supporting other countries (not needy people in those countries, mind you, the people don't benefit much at all from the billions our government spends trying to buy friends and influence people; this $$$ goes to the governments and high ranking officials in those countries who allow members of our government and high ranking officials of our military and power players providing contractor services to "clean up our messes" made when we are in those countries performing our military strategies, allowing all these greedy folks to "prosper" very well; and the corruption and the mismanagement of the American taxpayer's $$$$ goes on and on, ad nauseum, by those who really don't NEED it, but because of the lust of GREED ($$$$) they manipulate the government's spending ability to their gain.

Yes, the government social programs in this country have been "sliced" a portion, and the very troubling thing is that for the next 9 years (I think it's 9 years because the "sequester" was to span a 10 year period and last year was the first one; but encourage you to check this out because I may be wrong in that this may be the first of the 10 years that it is to transpire) anyway, each year hereafter, if the government cannot get it's shit together and create a "balanced budget", and I have very little confidence they will, we get another cut to our social programs, in ADDITION to the amount they are currently cut at. ANOTHER PERCENTAGE is added to the current percentage.

ugh.

It's no picnic in the other countries. This has just come ashore here, it's been "over there, and under there", wave after wave of "cutting" at the social programs they offer, but has just now become our "bitter" pill to swollow. The other countries are struggling too.

The new term to use is not "spending cuts" but "austerity measures".

ugh.

Amen Blue, I agree with you 100%.... Hugs GB

You have to think about it in a Capitalist way. If there is no way to make money, it's not going to happen. That is why there is a huge homeless problem too. If someone could make millions or *DR EVIL POSE* BILLIONS, getting the homeless off the street, you'd never see another homeless person again. Unless they are just weird.