In the above response to DG, clo is once again wrong.
She says you can't have it both ways. In her mind, either people are given more than they're worth by their employers, or more than they're worth by the government. Those are the two sides of the spectrum, as clo sees it.
The idea that people could be given what they are worth, and no more than that, is incomprehensible.
A lifelong leech would say such a thing. SOMEBODY has to carry people like that, after all. Either businessmen, or ex-husbands, or government. clo doesn't care, except that she probably prefers government because it doesn't complain when she feeds from it.
clo's spectrum is hallucinatory, but there IS a spectrum, and it has two discernibly different sides. One side has people who don't carry their own weight in life; the other has people who do. It's plain to see on which side clo has spent her life, for an existence on the other side is unfathomable to her. This may be because of the blinders she wears, blinders she wears defensively to keep her from seeing herself as one of life's losers.
So, this topic lends itself to an interesting bit of speculation as to what would happen… what will happen… when the providers in the United States cease to feed the leeches? I'm sure that clo thinks they will just shrivel up and die. She hasn't shown herself to have much of an imagination, however. The truth is that the desire to live is remarkably resilient. Leeches don't die if they don't get their freebies. They will simply be forced to work harder and spend less. Ultimately, they evolve into something better than they are today.
It's doable, trust me. A woman clo's age and her fortysomething son who's still living at home would do just fine in a single bedroom apartment with a hide-a-bed couch in the living room. Babysitters, regardless of the number of divorces they've endured, don't actually need or deserve - what? - four-bedroom/two-bath houses on nice streets in nice suburban towns? clo could sell the house. Live within her means for once. It would be a welcome change and might even make her benefactors feel better about the charity they've been forced to give to her for her entire life.
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