This Is Who People Magazine Should Put On Their WL Cover

I don't see it as us vs them for doing it the easy way vs the harder way.  I see it as a fundamental difference in attitude with what I now cringe to call the "younger generation"... It is an attitude of entitlement and lack of initiative where they will invest huge amounts of time and effort into getting someone else's money to obrain the things they want rather than investing that time and energy in working for it on their own.  

Wait until they realize how much of the current national debt THEY are going to have to pay off (that the pathetic politicians of MY generation are leaving them)... and that there isn't anyone ELSE to pay for it...

I don't talk politics in polite company because the conversations are often pointless. No one changes their views because they're too busy trying to prove their side is right and the other is wrong. Pointless.

Also, each generation seems to worry that younger folks are leading the world straight to hell in a handbasket. Me, I believe if young whippersnappers didn't come on the scene every once in a while with their crazy ideas, we'd all still be living in caves or thinking the world was flat.

But I hear you on the importance of work ethic.

I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I think it's ironic that the argument you are using against using crowd-sourcing as a way to fund plastics is a similar argument to the one that people who are anti-WLS use against those of us who have WLS.  Basically, it's the "doing it the easy way versus the hard way that builds character" argument.  Or, to use your words, they view it as us lacking the initiative in trying to lose weight and feeling entitled to having someone else (I.E., insurance) pay for surgery, and investing huge amounts of time and energy into having that surgery approved instead of investing time and energy into working to lose weight on our own.

Bottom line for me is that while I don't know whether I would be willing to do what he's doing, he's not conning anyone out of their money.  If people see a cause that they want to support, good for them.  Other people are free not to do so. 

Good person for a WL Story is Dan B.  talk about someone who had WLS and turned their life around and inspires others.

http://trimywill.com/

PAUL-I knew DAN when he was pre-op, IRL, as well as here, on OH...and I absolutely agree with you!!

Well, he's been successful.  He's raised over $56,000 of the $20,000 he was asking for.  Hopefully he'll Just use what he needs for surgery, and donate the rest to a worthwhile charity.

Yep, course he will  (cynical ***** over and out!)