No, not THAT Keith...
He has limited use of his arms and no movement below his chest. His fingers are curled from disuse. He types with the knuckle of his pinkie finger. It’s hard for him to lift a cell phone to his ear.
He’s been at the school a year and a half, after a five-year career in the mortgage business. Despite the lower pay, he sees teaching as a calling. He has been paralyzed for nine years, ever since a car he was riding in was hit by a drunken driver. Recently, his situation has gotten worse, with severe pain in his right arm, perhaps from strain, though doctors worry there could be a problem in his neck impacting the nerves. He now uses a motorized chair, which has eased the pain, though not entirely.
You would think Keith Anderson receives many forms of government support. In fact, he gets exactly zero. It’s by his choice.
He rejects it all, feeling it’s his responsibility as a father and adult to pay his own way.
“I am extremely against receiving entitlements,” said Anderson. “People work hard for their money. Who am I to take it? Who am I to depend on the fruits of their labor?”
Keith Anderson would receive far more if he stopped working.
“Financially,” he said, “I would be better off sitting at home.”
Believe it or not, it gets better. Read the entire story. Then think about taking money from Keith’s paycheck to pay Aunt Zeituni to stay home.
Then re-read Keith’s story, just to feel great all over again.
"When President Bush announced plans in 2008 to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling, Obama dismissed it, saying "it would merely prolong the failed energy policies we have seen from Washington for 30 years."
"Offshore drilling," he said, "would not lower gas prices today, it would not lower gas prices next year and it would not lower gas prices five years from now."
-- Investor's Business Daily 
