Supplementing SSI Income

The problem is, they're good people. Yeah, I know, I know - selling drugs is wrong, socially unacceptable, and contributes to the creation a degenerative future for America. I agree.

But here's the catch: a man gets hit by a car. The driver had no insurance coverage, under the influence of whatever he got his hands on that day, and even though justice is rendered when it comes to the courts making him pay for his crime, there's no help for the now paralyzed victim who must rely on the government for support.

To top it all off with a nice whipped topping and cherry, this victim only receives about nine-hundred dollars a month for his disability/SSI check. His house note was more than that. His vehicle payment and insurance on the car was about half that, though he cannot drive himself anywhere now, anyway. His two boys went to private schools (well, until the accident, that is), and he is a widower. His wife died of cancer a year before the accident.

He was not a member of any community support system, church, Masonic Lodge, or anything that could have pooled resources for him because he worked like a dog at a factory that eventually laid him off. No attorney would touch the case, and in the factory's defense, they did give him a paycheck for about 7 months after the accident, at which time SSI was supposed to have taken over. It took longer than that to receive the government funds, though, and I imagine that time was rough.

Now, in a wheelchair with use of his upper body, he does what he can. He receives many different types of prescription pain medications, as well as pharmaceuticals for nerves and anxiety. To users, that translates: Oxycontin, Xanax, Klonopin, and Valium. So you know what I'm getting to.

He supplements his income by selling his prescription medications because now he has two teenage boys that he wonders how on earth he will send to clothe, much less send to college.

So I ask you, the general public, what should be his sentence when he is charged and convicted of doing what he felt he had to do in order to survive when his country actually produces him a mockery of a "paycheck" by way of SSI every month?

I imagine he could ask every person in America to send him a penny. Maybe someone will do a telethon or Sally Struthers will put two American kids on television instead of the starving foreigners that usually do not receive all the donations, anyhow.

Any ideas, America?

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