The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #143326   Message #3308438
Posted By: Jim Dixon
14-Feb-12 - 01:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Working Man
Subject: RE: BS: The Working Man
I had an uncle who thought that way.

He said, "I don't see how a man can sit at a desk all day and then say he's tired."

Hey, if you disagree with that statement, you don't need to explain it to me. I get it. I've quoted that line before, and I know how people react.

I'm only reporting what my uncle said. And my uncle is no longer around to hear your protests.

By the way, that same uncle retired early and lived very cheaply off partial disability payments, in a house with no plumbing. He didn't look disabled to me; I'm sure he could have handled a desk job if he wanted one, and if anybody wanted to hire him. He went fishing a lot. Even my father, his brother, doubted that his claim to be disabled was legitimate. He had been wounded in WW2, but seemed to have completely recovered.

Hey, I don't blame him for working the system, but he was not in a good position to call other men lazy.