I hope you lose your job, lose your health care, go broke and then get sick...or maybe a loved one will...and when you do, dont ask for government help.. maybe beg for change in the parking lot or something.
Not a very nice thing to wish for, not even on an enemy. But, Just to show you what a resilient person is made of, it would be nice if that could happen. Someone like Andy would bounce back and fast.
You can give a hundred poor people a million dollars and within a couple of years the will have no money, nothing to show for the money they had and actually be in debt to the IRS for taxes on money they long since spent. Maybe 1 in that hundred would have something to show for it but even them Id wager would not have much of the money left.
If you stripped Donald Trump down to less than a million he would have ten times that within that same period of time, and not by name recognition. Some people no matter how poor their start will show make something of themselves and some people no matter how many chances given will blow it.
There are people in New Orleans who are STILL getting government help and they will continue to get that government help till the day the government stops helping and then they will scrape by some how but they will never make much of themselves. There are others who were hit as hard and are back better than before without the government help because they are resilient people who just bounce back and don’t let things hold them down.
I have two older brothers, both are much stronger than I am, much smarter than I am and I wish I had half the talents that they both have. Both have had much more handed or given to them than I currently have. One is a recovering heroin addict living with our mother and except a 2 year period of time with a girlfriend has always lived with either me or my mother. The other is a homeless bum scrounging for his next recycling can he can turn in for the 5 cents to get that next bottle of Old English.
They have both had a number of settlements that gave them big cash starts, one has a bachelor’s degree in engineering but neither has a pot to piss in, and yes both are already getting free medical care from the state through SSI.
I have 3 years of college all paid for by myself, I did not get the help they did and I did not finish. Im ten years younger than them and have never had the help from my family that they have had or any chunk of money via settlements come my way, if I did my house would be paid for instead of still owing 13 thousand on it. I adopted one of their children and tried to foster 3 others but could not keep doing it.
Ugh I am giving too much personal information here, but the point is some people without any help can help themselves and even family while some others with more help than any one person needs can succeed in exactly nothing but making a huge mess of their life.
Ending point………Andy would bounce back and probably even have more than he does now because resilient people are like that!