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Originally Posted by theking
The help is usually available for the asking. In some states...if not all states...the elderly can...based upon income...receive life time deferments for property taxes. In addition some states...if not all states...offer assistance for utilities etc.
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I've never had to ask for assistance from the government, so I don't have first hand experience.
but from what I am told the proceedures are intentionally humiliating, confusing, degrading, vastly complicated, unfair, and the people who administer those programs are unpleasant little fuckwads who take great pleasure in humiliating people.
I get that you want these old folks to be humiliated, to feel shame for beng poor; the most despicable thing you can be is a poor old person in america.
I personally can understand having so much pride that I would let the sheriff sell my home and throw me in the gutter rather than begging some government minityrant for help.
we are going to see a LOT more of this in the next few decades. america is going down a dark road, and a lot of people are going to get thrown under the bus.