Originally Posted by clevelandbrown

Perhaps I'm growing jaded in my old age, but when I was raised we didn't buy something unless we could afford it, and I've never grown to accept the idea that the poor have some right to live beyond their means.

I haven't come up with any ideas when I try to think of a situation where air travel is a necessity; it seems more like a luxury. Perhaps there are some situations where a disabled person with low income absolutely must fly, but I think those situations are very rare. So if I were a disabled person on very low income, I would put off any nonessential trips until I could afford them, just as I would put off buying a luxury car until I could afford it, and certainly perhaps I would never be able to afford them, but I would feel pretty bad if I decided to take a nonessential trip and pay for it by stiffing the service workers.

I'm a senior now, not yet disabled, but I am amazed by how far my money goes now as it seems almost everyone is offering some sort of senior discount. I'll sign off now; I have to go pay a small portion of my property tax; the government has waived the rest, not because I cannot afford it, but just because I am a senior.