http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021378988Oh my.
Odd, though, that the Odin2005 primitive didn't check in.
lapislzi (4,451 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 04:48 PM
Parasites, check in here.
My family is nothing but a bunch of parasites. We've been running the table on moochery for four decades: public assistance, food stamps, unemployment, Medicaid (for Mom), the VA (for Dad), Social Security, Medicare (eventually for Dad), Pell Grants (for me), student loans (all repaid). And I get these tax credit thingies for mortgage interest, and a deduction for my kid when I was a single parent...
Work? Oh, yeah, we all did (do) that, too, except when we're sick or dying, or there is no job.
I'm disgusting. An absolute drain on society. Good thing I don't matter.
If you, too, are a parasite, please check in below, and feel free to elaborate on your favored method of parasitism.
HereSince1628 (23,789 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 05:27 PM
9. Actually the technical issue is HARM. You've got to be harmful to be a parasite.
If the host isn't presented with any cost of your presence you can't be a parasite.
Within the American economic system, the host (the 1%)???? are provided with super-numery mitigations that protect them from the blood-sucking lower classes. I can't help but think the feedback loops provided by the harvesting of the 1% on the 99% more than balance this circumstance in their favor. And as such I am left with something like a consumer-producer relationship that isn't truly parasitism.
iwillalwayswonderwhy (1,115 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 05:02 PM
4. Well, I'm a former parasite
When the man I lived with for 11 years had the utter gall to die suddenly from a brain aneurism, I found myself without a job, in the boonies with 3 teenagers, no car, and little money. We weren't married, and he died in debt, leaving us with little, and I found my worthless self having to start life completely over at age 40. So for a time we were on the dole for food. Complete bloodsuckers we were. It was my own fault for bad planning--I should have planned for a sudden brain hemmorhage, or at the very least, chosen to have wealthy parents.
Lady Freedom Returns (437 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2012, 05:20 PM
8. Oh I am a huge parasite (that votes).
Oh I had a job. I have a BA in Communications. I lost it all and the help that should have been there was not, thanks to the 8 year drain of the Bush administration.
After the tornado I was living LARGE! Sleeping in tents in 32 and lower temps, shelters, back of building, living off $200 in food stamps a month (btw, if you have to by pre-made food due to the lack of a kitchen, that goes in about two weeks, if you find a cheep place to buy), walking everywhere to find help (they are not located close together), and always the never ending hunt for a bathroom.
P.S. Renters check your insurance plan for a "Move Clause". It cost me everything.
^^is this the primitive who was going to hike from Joplin, Missouri, to Seattle, Washington, but then got hung up in Springfield, Missouri?