There are many people in the residential homes that I serve (volunteer
free medical care) where my patients don't have the money to pay rent
each month AND buy medications and food. They can't get "luxuries" such
as Internet access much less a MacBook Pro to see such news stories.
Instead the basic cable here has commercial after commercial of such
"loans." That's why the basic cable is free. One woman gets a total of
$735/per month of social security from her own account and her deceased
husband's SS ALTOGETHER. Own a car? No way. Yet these residential
homes are not built on mass transportation lines (buses, Metro, subway)
and must depend on kindness of strangers or sometimes if VERY lucky a
family member may visit once every month or so.
Most people have
absolutely NO idea what day to day existence is like for the majority of
our elderly or disabled. I have a 63 year old patient with cerebral
palsy who does not have the money to even communicate with her
caretakers much less other people. She is bound forever to a wheelchair
and a caretaker...and inside is an intelligent woman. But only a
Stephen Hawking has the money for assistive computer devices to even say
"I'm hungry" much less give talks on black holes.
Gees People!
Go out into the community and see what I do! We are warehousing our
elderly and disabled and finding new ways to make money every day!