If People Have a Car Accident
If People have a car accident
they can spend months in hospital
needing wages they depend on employers
yet companies can only afford so much
Society could do better
I'm don't like unemployment
where healthy people sit doing nothing
that is a waste of assets a waste of people
yet when people are injured in accidents
they should be able to get invalid benefits
until they are healed but then if they are crippled
and can't go back to their previous employment
We could train them for employment
Where they can survive and thrive
remember Stephen Hawkins
what an incredible man
Facing an illness that would have devastated
any other man he went on to become
a leader in his scientific field
because that is the path he chose to follow
The bible says in the parable of a good samaritan
"It is about a traveller who is stripped of clothing, beaten, and left half dead alongside the road. First a priest and then a Levite comes by, but both avoid the man. Finally, a Samaritan happens upon the traveller. Samaritans and Jews despised each other, but the Samaritan helps the injured man"
Your neighbor is the man
that takes care of your wounds
pays for your stay at an Inn
takes care of you as a person
Our Car accidents and disabled
are the people that need help
without the ability to work
and hold down a job they need support
but support should only be tempory
retraining to become independent
should be the ultimate goal
granted sometimes we can't
sometimes we can't fix a problem
sometimes an invalid
will never be able to get back into work
sometimes our society needs invalid benefits
yet having healthy people sitting on benefits
for their entire life is no good for them
and no good for society
it is an undeveloped human resource
They are assets that could be used
educated and encouraged
to become the builder's, electricians
and mechanics in the war on climate change
Copyright © Bernard Barclay | Year Posted 2020
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