Why should my tax dollars pay for the care of weak-minded people who choose to be crazy and depressed?

Answer 1

maybe you are a functioning pshycotic

Answer 2

This is a very humorous question, so I'll give it the answer it deserves. When I was a kid, I decided to let voices enter my head. Later, they went away, so I became lonely and depressed. I figured, what better way to let those tax paying "saners" support me than to get even more depressed. So, I got catatonic. Social Security came running, knocking at my door. They handed over $100,000 so I could live comfortably for the next 6 months. Ever since then, I get $10,000 per month from Social Security. It's hard to continue with this depression, seeing as I have all this money that I spend on strippers. But, by the end of the month, I'm broke, so my depression returns. It's just an endless cycle. Thanks for the help Mr. Taxpayer. Oh, moonwalk, endless, malaria, sent a chill to the universal monkey.

Answer 3

Mental illness (including depression) is not self-induced. If it is, how did you cause your delusions?

Have you seen the state hospitals your tax dollars pay for? I've been to them (visiting clients, not as a resident). They're not 4 star hotels. Some of them are old and look like they should be condemned. Furniture is bare, sparse, and uncomfortable. Food is not exactly gourmet.

You need to accept that the US government is a symbiotic system. Look at Social Security (while it still exists). If you can't handle this and want to live a completely selfish existence, may I suggest several 3rd world countries where people are killed on a daily basis just for being different?

Answer 4

Be very careful, many people who might be or are depressed aren't always "crazy" and vise-versa. Also weak minded people are just that. that's why they live on welfare, and that's part of the reason you pay taxes. However you can look at it in the aspect that you also help many people out there who need it to better their lives. Single mom's who use tax money for food stamps so they can work and go to school. Just one example, but it seems that the losers out there who milk the system is all we hear about, and yeah i'm sick of it too.

Answer 5

i think your question is very nasty not to mention unfair and for your information people do not chose to be mentally ill or depressed these things are very real and it is a very serious illness as far as your tax dollars most of these people who are ill with these disorders at one time probably worked ,weak minded has nothing to do with mental illness or depression unless you have been there or had a family member that is or has gone through these illness don't put them down because you have no idea what you are talking about , maybe you should take time to walk through a mental facility one time and just how these people deal with every day life its not a pretty site i can tell u this people like you should have to be like these mentally ill people for just one day you are very rude and cold hearted and maybe some day you will be where some of these people have been most of their lives

Answer 6

because they can. i think your question has probably caused a few on the brink to go over the edge, so i suggest you get a better job, because there will be more needing your financial assistance. you reap what you sow, you are what you eat, and maybe just maybe, some day you'll get pimp slapped upside the head with a small dose of humanity, but by that time, we will have all subscribed to your line of thinking, and alas, there will be no more tax dollars to support you. Ah, the choices we make! Dontcha just love it?

Answer 7

Wow Tom Cruise.
Depression is not a choice, many people are forced into it by abuse, and brainwashing. Others are forced into it by a chemical imbalance. Nobody chooses to be depressed or have a mental disorder anymore than I am sure you did not choose to be stupid.

Answer 8

Others have answer what I would have answered, but I can only add that I hope that some day you won't be in those people's predicament and have no one show the same sense of compassion you're showing others.

People like you are definitely the reason abortion should remain legal.

Answer 9

Mental illness is a common health problem, not a choice. Untreated patients seriously impact society as a whole. It is in the common interest, not to mention it being humane, for society to treat uninsured mentally ill people.

Answer 10

Do you know depression or how to make an impression.

Regression from a tax payer, probably employed and everyone else unemployed deserves to be.

May Ken "Lay" in....choice.

Answer 11

look at it this way, if something were to happen to you and you and your family needed the govt. help, wouldn't you take it and want it? And on another note, I don't feel people CHOSE to be crazy and depressed on purpose. Stop judging people its not your job!