should state aid be given to parents of their rich children?

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Robdawg

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basic question....


lets say someone gets state aid in heating oil and state aid in prescrioptions, however their children have lots of money.....


should the state continue to fund their parents medicines and other welfare entitlements or should the child/parent have to pay or find other ways to pay for it. ?
 
Adult Children are not responsible for their adult parents. However, if you are making lots of money and your old mom has to be on subsidies for heating oil and medication? Shame on you. I will keep your seat warm in hell if I get there before you.
 
Well said!

Socrtease said:
Adult Children are not responsible for their adult parents. However, if you are making lots of money and your old mom has to be on subsidies for heating oil and medication? Shame on you. I will keep your seat warm in hell if I get there before you.
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I am really begining to wonder about the youth of today!:(
 
Socrtease said:
Adult Children are not responsible for their adult parents. However, if you are making lots of money and your old mom has to be on subsidies for heating oil and medication? Shame on you. I will keep your seat warm in hell if I get there before you.
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alot of it is not necessairly that they are cold, they do get heat, but don't earn much and are entitled to the subsidiary, then their kids will pick up the remaining costs...
 
Actually my boyfriends' family is going through something like this. Those a-holes were given a house by their mom/aunt (I'm not quite sure) in NYC, then she had a stroke and now they want the state to take care of her and Medicaid to pay for her bills. They don't even go and visit her. How pathetic is that. I think MC is saying that since she had substantial assets as of whatever date, her estate is going to be responsible. But to answer Rob's question, no. I don't think it should be withheld unless as someone pionted out they are a dependent.
 
Government taking responsibility in that role immediately relieves people of the guilt of not taking care of them and in so doing makes them feel less need to care and love for them.

"Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out of a sense of love and duty. They now contribute to the support of someone else's parents out of compulsion and fear. The voluntary transfers strengthened the bonds of the family; the compulsory transfers weaken those bonds." – Milton Friedman
 
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