Posted On: March 21, 2006, 8:06 am CST

Posted By: Rutherford

Jaqueline, your story nearly brought me to tears. There are many people in similar circumstnces who have all but stopped living, but you hung in there and made what you could of the cards you were dealt, and that is truly inspirational. I cannot say that I would have done as well had the same thing happened to me at twenty-three.

Aside from being my morning inspiration you also provide corraboration of my point: that lawyers write the laws to suit themselves, find servile congressmen and senators to approve them, then milk the system for all it's worth. To actually NEED an attorney just to get $500/month SSI benefits is proof that at least a significant and influential portion of the bar is engaged in what amounts to a protection racket. The practice of law has gone far from justice and protecting rights, and become a means of defrauding and robbing people in particular, and society at large. It is truly pathetic.

Proverbs 3:3-8, "Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: so shalt thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man. Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones."