I live with a Faux Noise nut. (My roommate's father.)
He had a heart attack about a year ago. After recovery, he was told he could go back to work. He decided he didn't like that too much and applied for SS. They turned him down when his doctor told them he could still work. So...He got a lawyer and argued with them until they caved.
He moved in with us so he wouldn't be alone during his recovery. He hasn't moved from the chair in our living room since. My roommate and I do EVERYTHING. He wakes us up at 4 and 5 AM to go get him breakfast. We "have to" drive him anywhere he wants to go. If the doorbell rings, he yells at one of us to answer it even though his chair is 10 feet from the door. All he does all day is watch Faux Noise or read his bible. He doesn't help pay any of the bills, buy food...Anything. Once in a blue moon he'll give us gas money.
He constantly rants about how "Socialist" the US is becoming, but in the next breath he'll curse the government for not wanting to give him SS when he could still work, or not being eligible for Medicare for two more years. He'll piss and moan about the "government take-over" of healthcare, and then 5 minutes later complain that he has insurance, so why should he have to pay his doctor bills? He carries on about how unions "destroyed" the economy, but he'll call the one he was a member of up the second he so much as thinks he needs help figuring out his retirement stuff.
Oh, and did I mention that he's one of those "The US was based on the Bible" Christians? He says all the time, and I quote, "Freedom of religion is destroying this country. People should be force-fed christianity until they get it. They'll thank us when they get to heaven."
He lives on every lie that dribbles out of Glenn Beck's mouth. If it didn't come from him, or Faux somehow, it's just more "lies from the Liberal media."
It's enough to drive you nuts. And as you can tell from my long ramble, it is slowly pushing me into padded room territory. But thanks for letting me rant. I feel slightly better.
