RocknRollisalive said:

come here...

ya know, it only works if you let it get to you...

I am REALLY hurting right now!!!

I have just come back from the opticians and I have just paid £140 for new glasses!!

Thats $270 to u US fans!!!

The thing is I have a card from the NHS, which entitles me 2 FREE dental, FREE perscriptions, and supposedly FREE eye care and I STILL have 2 pay £140!!

What a joke????

Yet another example of Rip-U-Off Britain!!!

This country doesnt do anything like this and never will due 2 its greed!!!
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When we arrive back over 2 the USA, we will b applying for cash assistance, foodstamps and FREE medical in order 2 help us get on our feet, untill we find work and even then depending on our wages, we will still get those!!

FREE medical care means FREE medical,FREE dental and FREE optical care!! Something this country is incapable of doing!! When we lived in Minnesota, my son was diagnosed with ADHD and yet they just couldnt get his meds right, so he spent 8 weeks as an in patient at the world famous Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, so they could analyse him 2 find out which treatment was best for him!! It cost the State of Minnesota $45,000 and they paid every red cent of it!! They even paid for his schooling so he wouldnt miss out, and where he stayed was like a 5 star Hotel, he had his own room, en suite bathroom, u name it!!!! They even paid for me for one nights stay at a Motel 8!!! This country couldnt do that!!!!!

This country will laugh if we suggest foodstamps, which are coupons the US government issue u with in order 2 buy food at grocery stores and at farmers markets and they are even accepted in some restaurants!! This country will even laugh if we suggest Food Banks, where u can go and get FREE food that has been donated by grocery stores and other food producers and even farmers!! And EVERYONE is entitled 2 get this FREE food!! Its better 2 give it away than 2 throw it away and waste it!! The only things u couldnt buy with foodstamps was household cleaning products, toiletries, cigarettes, alcohol and other non-food items!!

This country doesnt do anything like this and never will due 2 its greed!!!
[Edited 1/28/05 12:05pm]

When we arrive back over 2 the USA, we will b applying for cash assistance, foodstamps and FREE medical in order 2 help us get on our feet, untill we find work and even then depending on our wages, we will still get those!!

FREE medical care means FREE medical,FREE dental and FREE optical care!! Something this country is incapable of doing!! When we lived in Minnesota, my son was diagnosed with ADHD and yet they just couldnt get his meds right, so he spent 8 weeks as an in patient at the world famous Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, so they could analyse him 2 find out which treatment was best for him!! It cost the State of Minnesota $45,000 and they paid every red cent of it!! They even paid for his schooling so he wouldnt miss out, and where he stayed was like a 5 star Hotel, he had his own room, en suite bathroom, u name it!!!! They even paid for me for one nights stay at a Motel 8!!! This country couldnt do that!!!!!

This country will laugh if we suggest foodstamps, which are coupons the US government issue u with in order 2 buy food at grocery stores and at farmers markets and they are even accepted in some restaurants!! This country will even laugh if we suggest Food Banks, where u can go and get FREE food that has been donated by grocery stores and other food producers and even farmers!! And EVERYONE is entitled 2 get this FREE food!! Its better 2 give it away than 2 throw it away and waste it!! The only things u couldnt buy with foodstamps was household cleaning products, toiletries, cigarettes, alcohol and other non-food items!!

This country doesnt do anything like this and never will due 2 its greed!!!
[Edited 1/28/05 12:05pm]

Gold319 said:

Better still..get a job and stop sponging!

I am not out 2 work the system!! But I think if the government offered u something for FREE I think anyone would b stupid 2 turn it down!!

When we first arrived in the USA in 1993, we lived in Blue Earth, Minnesota and we got 2 know a family, through my husbands family, there who were millionaires(they had their own house moving company - literally uprooting and moving whole houses on huge semis!!), and even they went down 2 the Food Bank!!! They were a very down 2 earth family and not at all ostentacious!!

To me its not a question of working the system!! To me its making use of something that distributes a precious commodity, like food, that would otherwise b thrown away which in my mind is a criminal act!!!
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To me its making use of something that distributes a precious commodity, like food, that would otherwise b thrown away which in my mind is a criminal act!!!
[Edited 1/28/05 23:20pm]

Gold319 said:

Yeah we can see that from your profile picture!!!!

Gold319 said:

Yeah we can see that from your profile picture!!!!

four-eyes!!!!

I am not out 2 work the system!! But I think if the government offered u something for FREE I think anyone would b stupid 2 turn it down!!

When we first arrived in the USA in 1993, we lived in Blue Earth, Minnesota and we got 2 know a family, through my husbands family, there who were millionaires(they had their own house moving company - literally uprooting and moving whole houses on huge semis!!), and even they went down 2 the Food Bank!!! They were a very down 2 earth family and not at all ostentacious!!

To me its not a question of working the system!! To me its making use of something that distributes a precious commodity, like food, that would otherwise b thrown away which in my mind is a criminal act!!!
[Edited 1/28/05 23:20pm]

starbass said:

Well, I am sorry I dont have the perfect supermodel figure for u!! That seems 2 b the problem in this country!! This country doesnt accept people for what they are!! If u havent got Kate Moss figures u are not accepted anywhere and U are not even given chances in the workforce, even if u have all the qualifications for the job u are going after!! They care more about how u look sitting behind a desk than if u can actually do the job, judging by seeing office women going 2 work in designer duds!! Over in the USA its more laid back(whenever I used 2 visit places like the Human services or other offices, I noticed that office workers, even males, in the summer wore shorts and t-shirts!! Over here they would b fired for dressing like that!!!!) and yes, they look presentable, but they are not worried if what they are wearing is Gucci or Versace or not!! And they consider doing their job of far more importance which is why everything in the USA functions far more better than here!! People in the USA KNOW HOW 2 do their jobs!! Over here people KNOW HOW 2 dress for their jobs!!