This an argument against freedom. What you are in effect saying is that people who are disabled to not deserve the same ability as you to go to the grocery store, or use an ATM, or walk down the street. All those freedoms you have, the freedom to travel around freely, to freely persue activities that you enjoy, etc? If you don't build handicapped ramps, if you don't put braille text on signs, if you don't make doorways wide enough for fat people to fit through, or hallways wide enough to turn around a wheel chair in, you're saying "We don't want you here. You don't have the same right to services as us because of your disability."
When your tax dollars go to subsidize the purchase of an electric scooter to someone who is physically immobilized and cannot afford one due to circumstance, either self inflicted or by random chance from illfortune, you are giving them the ability to do something you can do. Our nation isn't about "make as much money as possible and then die," it's about "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
That's the rationale for having these programs.
For one, I don't support freedom for all.
Secondly, its fine if you want to pay for a wheelchair for someone who can't afford it. I'm saying we should be FREE to not pay for some person we don't even know. You're the one arguing against freedom, not me.
This is because you live in a fictional universe you have constructed in your head where poverty is a function of effort, where there's a perfect correlation between being a deadbeat and being poor. Maybe it's some kind of rose-tinted nostalgia about the American Dream, where hard work gets you a white picket fence and 2.4 kids. Poor people are poor, disabled people are disabled, and dead people are dead because they chose to be. Unfortunately it's not grounded in reality. Sometimes hard work gets you somewhere, sometimes hard work lets you scrape out a meager living, sometimes all you get from hard work is dead faster.
Our position is merely that hard work should not get you dead faster and if you're unable to do work then you should be given the opportunity to contribute to the world in what way you can.
Even if someone is working incredibly hard and not making enough money doesn't mean we should support them involuntarily. Like I said, giving money to somebody who is disabled is fine, but don't make me do it when I don't give a stuff about this random guy.
