Somebody at the mental institution has got to have a digital camera. I am dying to see these creations. She also promised us poetry.
As an addendum to the thread concerning MineralMan's admonishment to the monkeys:
DUmmies, this is why we laugh at you. You claim to be the smartest people on the planet, yet you champion the cause of a manifestly ill woman who moved to another state for the specific purpose of leeching off the welfare system. I vouchsafe that you think the welfare system is there for anyone's taking, at any time, but (speaking for myself)
the welfare system, including private welfare, is for people who genuinely need it. This would include, but is not limited to: battered women, families experiencing unemployment, families under extreme stress, or otherwise in highly unfortunate and impossible situations. Your hero Amber, whom you seem to regard as on a Pelosi-esque journey of self-discovery, is actually diverting resources that are better spent elsewhere. Moreover, assuming as you all do that Amber suffers from PTSD (hint: she's not), she would be far better off in the care of medical professionals. Such care was available to her as part of the response to the weather event that supposedly caused her PTSD, but evidently that was the one smidge of welfare that she elected not to consume.
We laugh at you because you regard the fashioning of a piece of glass into "artwork" as worthy, more worthy than seeking the help that Amber actually needs. It would be fine if Amber was something of a mascot for you, but in reality, she IS you. Her current situation is ROMANTIC and DESIRABLE to a good many of you. You have deluded yourselves and each other that Amber's sweaty, stinking journey of reincarnation into Swap Meet Sally is a template for others to follow. While education may be expensive, and good jobs may be hard to come by, the pursuit of a dignified life is far cheaper to most than the psychic costs of giving up, of looking for trash to transform into "art."
What makes us different from you is precisely that: we (and I am sure that I speak for us all) would sooner die than cast our fates to the wind and accept for ourselves the lifestyle that you think everyone wants. I am sure that makes us "squares" to you, or "sheeple," or whatever. Here comes a concept you can't understand:
we don't care what you think, not because we are hardheaded or brainwashed, but because we reject the premises of each of your arguments. I don't expect you to understand anything I'm saying, not when you are enraptured by the fact that a mentally ill, essentially illiterate woman has earned $20 by turning trash into "art." Go and live that life. Just don't ask others to underwrite it.
