Oh, he's a character, all right. :-)  Let us know when you read his bio, OK?

His bio can be got to via:
http://cerebral-palsy.net/

and go to the drop-down box just under his big pic (old-timey-looking
geezer) and select 'Biography of your Host' and then click on the 'Go'
button. Up pops another window (I had to click on the 'click here' link for
the bio to pop up).

Kat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cleveland, Kyle E." <[log in to unmask]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.c-palsy
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: In Keeping with Aging with CP; FYI


> I gotta read this guy's bio.  Sounds like some of it might be made from
100%
> U.S.A. made whole-cloth.  Folks who spin the system just make it harder
for
> the average guy to keep his head above water.
>
> I think Roosevelt & Co. did a disservice to the American citizenry by not
> explaining that SSDB and the SS retirement benefits were never meant to be
> the sum total of what one lives on.  I also blame our culture on two
counts:
>
> 1)  We're constantly being bombarded by messages, subtle and
not-so-subtle,
> that:
>
> a)  Revolving credit's a good thing.
> b)  Tomorrow (retirement) is a long way off--live for today.
> c)  If you don't live in this house, drive that car, etc., you are less
than
> normal.
>
> 2)  It's every man/woman for themselves.  If your parents get too old and
> feeble to care for themselves, that's just too bad (never mind that they
> wiped your butt, nose and tears).  Let Social Security take care of them.
>
> What galls me, too, is that folks who are incredibly wealthy when they
> retire also dip into the SSI pot.  Sure, they paid into the system, but by
> the same token it's not bloody likely they got rich by being lily-white
> honest on their taxes, etc.
>
> -Kyle
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Salkin Kathleen [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 10:07 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: In Keeping with Aging with CP; FYI
>
>
> Oh, I understand the need to make a buck whilst on SSDB, I've got no
> argument with that (although I'm not sure he's on SSDB).  It's just that
> he's doing stuff like transferring funds to his wife's name in order to
> avoid paying taxes on them, stuff like that.  That's what sounds so
> suspicious; although it's legal, it sounds shady.  He sounds an awful like
> an old boyfriend of mine (also an engineer!) who had a sort of a chip on
his
> shoulder against the world and felt he could pay them by bucking the
system.
>
> Kat