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kg4kww
08-11-2007, 02:36 AM
This is just unreal, the person that owns this place should have their license taken away.
CNN Video; 18 people rescued from assisted living that had no ac (http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/08/10/wtsp.elderly.abuse.affl)
KC2ESD
08-11-2007, 03:11 AM
Quote[/b] ]This is just unreal, the person that owns this place should have their license taken away.
The Heck with that, they ought to be hanged in public. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif
K8MHZ
08-11-2007, 04:08 AM
Quote[/b] (kg4kww @ Aug. 10 2007,14:36)]This is just unreal, the person that owns this place should have their license taken away.
CNN Video; 18 people rescued from assisted living that had no ac (http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/08/10/wtsp.elderly.abuse.affl)
Quote[/b] ]The Heck with that, they ought to be hanged in public.
As Republicans you should be in favor of letting her do as she pleases without government intervention. #It's those dang Liberals that want the government to step in and control people just wanting to do business no matter who they take advantage of.
Where are the families of those people? They are the ones to blame.
How can the elderly be cast off as a burden by so many?
Find the cheapest place that will take granny and dump her there. That is love and respect for our elders.
kg4kww
08-11-2007, 01:25 PM
Well I hope these folks wind up in a better location.
kc0ukk
08-11-2007, 03:02 PM
There is more to this story than was told in the video. Daphne Jones was running a boarding house, not an assisted living facility. She most certainly did not represent herself to the authorities as an assisted living facility, so her boarders were not sent to her by state or local welfare offices.
Should she have taken in those with disabilities? Could they pay the rent? Was she obligated to care for these people? She probably did more for them than she was paid for doing.
Where did these folks come from and what were their options? Did they like to drink and smoke? Eat Big Macs, play poker and tell dirty jokes? Did they like to sleep ‘til noon, stay up ‘til O Dark Thirty? Did they resent being treated as children in the upscale facilities? Could they afford such facilities? Was it Daphne Jones’ fault that they couldn’t do better?
Daphne Jones took in too many boarders; was it better that she did or should she have left the extras to fend for themselves elsewhere? Was there an alternative for these people? Are they moving now to some facility where they can no longer visit their friends, their grandchildren? Are they now being shuttled off to some cleaner, less crowded facility that they can’t afford?
Are we now forbidding people from making their own choices? Aren’t these people free?
kc0ukk
08-11-2007, 03:55 PM
Compare this story with that of the King Drew Medical Center in LA. #This article from 2004 depicts a truely awful public facility.
LA Times (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-kdday2dec06,1,4835075.story?coll=la-headlines-nation)
Today, it appears, all funding has been withdrawn for this facility and it will be forced to close its doors.
Quote[/b] (KC2ESD @ Aug. 10 2007,16:11)]Quote[/b] ]This is just unreal, the person that owns this place should have their license taken away.
The Heck with that, they ought to be hanged in public. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif
After they make him spend a month living in the place under house arrest so he can't leave.
KG6OPR
08-11-2007, 04:19 PM
...I cool off with a sixer of TallBoy Old English 800 and a dozen or so boiled egg's and turn the cooler off! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
G0GQK
08-12-2007, 08:55 PM
I'm getting worried as I get older but I'm starting to save plastic bags to keep me feet warm, and I've got some cardboard boxes ready for when I have to sleep in a bus shelter.
The way things are moving houses are now so expensive for young people they won't ever be able to buy one, there aren't any cheap houses so bus shelters will become valuable accomodation ! Big worry is that often there is no electric power in bus shelters so operating could be a problem !
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