Shake that thing!

[cyrano]

I now have all six episodes of 'Thirty Days'. I was just struck by the factoid that families that make under $25K a year are twice as likely to divorce. So... sanctity of marriage people, how about a raise in the minimum wage law to preserve marriage? Or a more healthy and robust public welfare system? Think of the children!

Watched 'Last Boy Scout' and 'Presumed Innocent' this weekend. Netflix Noir Film Festival. (: I really enjoyed both of them--very different but at the same time very similar. Each gets four wags.

I got to see my friend Anne (who is now a teacher in Bakersfield) and help her with her lesson plan yesterday, even if I was sad and lame lying on my back guy.

Sitting on the couch very quietly, currently on the 'heat' of the 'heat and cold' programme. The heat is a sticky pad so it's going to hurt to remove it. Plus I'll have to get off the couch to get the freezy thing. I'm not in a big rush. (:

Comments

[mnarra.livejournal.com]

I needed it and was refused, on three occasions over 15 years.

The rules are set up to support the system the way it is used.

[sararainmaker.livejournal.com]

My fiance's mother needed her social security and disability. She was riddled with cancer and sick constantly...
...she fought for it for years...
...she got her first social security check one week after her funeral.

The system is broken.

[mnarra.livejournal.com]

:nods:

The nature of any set of rules is that they will produce patterns of behavior, and eventually people will learn those patterns and play them for the best return. Any system will be broken.

[sararainmaker.livejournal.com]

so how about no systems?

[mnarra.livejournal.com]

Also broken.

Is it better to not try to help people, or help them ineffectively?

[sararainmaker.livejournal.com]

It depends.
Sometimes helping people will hurt them more than anything.
Rewarding laziness will eventually breed it.