Cub Driver wrote:
I can't get out of my mind the image of the woman
who glares at the camera and says flatly: "I need my insulin." I might
be wrong, and I'm sorry for anyone who has to put up with diabetes,
but it seems to me that she has spent her life having her needs
delivered to her by government servants at taxpayer expense.


You clearly aren't "sorry for anyone who has to put up with diabetes"
(as if it were some minor annoyance and not a life-threatening
disease!). As a father of a type-1 diabetic, I can assure you that
insulin for a diabetic is as critical for survival as oxygen, food,
water, etc. Insulin must be kept refrigerated, which might be a
challenge when there is no electricity for days/weeks at a time. If a
natural disaster were to hit my home area and our supply of insulin was
destroyed, I can't promise that I wouldn't "glare at the camera and say
flatly: I need insulin for my daughter". Wanting to live or keep
loved-ones alive makes us do such extreme things! But I'm guessing you
don't have any life-threatening diseases, and have likely never
encountered any "real" hardship in your life. You are simply... better
than the general population, since you don't rely on any governement
sevices (servants) and cost us taxpayers nothing.

I have seen many images of people during the Katrina aftermath that
have made me ashamed of the human race. The image of the woman
pleading for medicine that is necessary to keep her alive is not one of
them...