text: hard earned tax money well spent? true story. a few months ago i was hospitalized for a kidney infection. i had no health insurance at the time, my work does not cover me. i was told by the hospital that i could apply for medical aid to help pay the bill. i recieved a phone call just yesterday informing me that i was declined any aid. what they told me was appalling, the reason i could not get any aid was because i'm not a drug addict or an alcoholic, unmarried mother with two or more kids, a refugee, and yes an illegal alien!! i have been working since i was 15 and paying taxes ever since, i never applied for any kind of government aid in my life, this one time that i would have really needed it, the government slapped me in the face. do you think it is better i renounce my citizenship? the medical claims office informed me illegals get all kinds of aid, no questions asked. do you think this is fair? i have been contact my local and state government to complain, i recomend it to all legal tax payers out there i worked for many years in community mental health and i know exactly what you are talking about with regard to services.  the problem here is that liberals have infiltrated the offices that supply those services and routinely reject people who aren't pawns in their plans to overthrow the government by bankrupting the social services systems.  that means no welfare for you if you are white, not an addict, not an illegal, not a felon etc.  you need to understand something.  although this is the rule, not the exception in most major metropolitan areas, it is also highly illegal.  what you need to do is get a lawyer (one's who specialize in this are a booming business in these areas) and serve them with a letter of intent to sue.  this  will cause them to immediately approve your aid (at least it used to work 100% of the time in cook county, where i worked)  these people know that what they are doing is illegal and they definitely don't want to be sued as that would most likely result in alot of people being fired and setting back the marxist revolution or whatever.  none of that is your problem.  the situation exists because all your idiot neighbors vote irresponsibly and don't pay attention to these issues.  you can't change it and shouldn't even try.  instead, you need to focus on your own health and well being and getting what you need from the system.