John Smith wrote on Dec 29^th, 2019 at 7:35pm:

No - but you both are touched in the head.

I have a friend who broke his back when he was 15.
Paralysed from the waist down.
He studied and worked, bought his own car and had it modified by the time he was 20.

He goes to the beach and drags himself into the water.
He has been all over the world.
He is not disabled, he is simply less capable of some things.

Now, on the other hand.
In the shopping centre a few days ago, there was this boy/man.
Obviously totally and absolutely crippled in the worst way.
Legs crunched into a foetal position, arms waving all over the place.
Head lolling all about, dribbling and screaming incoherently.

He has been like that all his life, he tells some poor sod dragged into discussion.

This man/boy is nothing but a burden.
He will never be fit for anything except an excuse to play martyr as his parents do.
It cannot be called life, living like that.
If he were an animal, we woukd simply put him out of his misery.
But no, we will keep him alive in a cage of total disability for God knows how long.

I say, if the individual has some semblance of life, of comfort, of use.
Then they should get assistance.
But if they are nothing but vegetables, they should be put to sleep compassionately.

The NDIS was a concept conceived by politicians for their own benifit.
To get the disabled off their backs
But, as with anything thought up in the vacuume of politics, it is/will be/ will always be, unworkable and cost 10 times what it's worth.
There will be, of course, many levels of "jobs for the boys" to give them a never ending income.
Perhaps 10 % of any funding may make the disabled, but most will be wasted by the political animals running the place.

Everywhere one goes we see Dissability enabling access.
But in honesty, how many times do you actually see it being used?

My mate has survived his injury for the last 45 years without all the trappings that the disabled get these days.
He is a successful engineer and father ( artificial insemination  of his own sperm of course)

But this NDIS is just another rort used by politicians for their own purposes.
Not for the disabled.
And if they are that disabled, perhaps it would be more humane to just put them to sleep.