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> She can no longer work, so they now struggle on a single income, if her husband were to leave her she would be completely screwed.

This is not inherent to Down's syndrome, this is because we live in a society that could easily support people but doesn't.

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It's very easy to ask everyone else to support your financial decisions.

It’s also very easy to expect the poor to subsidize your lifestyle by making $7.25/hr. Everything has perspectives.

That's not how subsidization works at all.

Until people like you figure that out, you're going to continue to be sorely disappointed with your political progress, because your "perspective" is not remotely logical.

Aren't you obligated to make sense though? Not just pretend you made a parallel argument?

Financial decisions like renting a place to sleep in safety, or eating.

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