the-anomaly:

blackfashion:

rickydank:

This man, James Verone, robbed a bank for one dollar.

Why only one dollar?

Because he knew that in prison he could get the medical care he could not afford with his part time salary as a convenience store clerk. He was approved for food stamps, but they did little to help his finances. Between his back problems, carpel tunnel, and arthritis, he simply couldn’t handle the pain any longer.

On June 9th, he sent a letter to his local paper, the Gaston Gazette, that stated: “When you receive this a bank robbery will have been committed by me. this robbery is being committed by me for one dollar. I am of sound mind but not so much sound body.”

He then took a cab to the RBC Bank, and handed the teller a note asking for one dollar and medical attention. He quietly took a seat in the lobby and waited for police to arrive.

Since Verone only stole one dollar, he was only charged with larceny. His bail, which he doesn’t plan to pay, is set at $2,000-reduced from the normal $100,000. He’s scheduled to see a doctor this Friday, and hopes to get foot surgery, back surgery and to have a protrusion on his check treated.   

To me, this is the perfect example of how disturbingly corrupt and unjust our health care system has become under HMO’s. For this man, or any person for that matter, to feel that he needs to be imprisoned just to see a doctor, is ridiculous. 

I honestly can’t even think of words. The story says it all.    

This happens so often. Recently I was in court at my internship and a homeless man robbed a convenience store for a dollar and potato-chips. He was sentenced to six months in jail but refused and asked for 9 months so that he wouldn’t face the spiteful New York winter homeless.

I reblog this often. 

Its so sad to me that society comes down to this! In our country, it seems to me that the majority of us are if not in utter poverty, we are just barely making it. Or havent been making it for long. 

Then the upper class claims that we should work as hard as they do to get where they are, but there are so many barriers in place to keep us from ever being able to do so. Why cant we just help each other? 

(via randomorganization)

This post is posted on Tuesday 5 July 2011.
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