Societies Failure Pt: 2
Today I ran full force into bureaucratic red tape. It was the lesson that we all have learned in physics, that when two immovable objects collide what is the result? A massive static discharge. Well today I went to attempt to receive some sort of aid from the state in so far as my medical condition is concerned, because I don’t have any kind of Medicade or medical insurance, so I need some assistance when I start getting prescribed medications.
Alright with that knowledge in hand above I went down to the Care-Link office to sign up for assistance and the lady there was being snide with me because the ID that I do possess stipulates my first and last name. (Its a TDC Offenders card, as I have just recently been released from State Jail) Well the lease that I took with me states my middle name as “Alex” not “Alejandro” so there for it is invalid as “Alex” is an entirely different ‘person’. Going round and round with this woman was at the least, irksome. I initially wanted to berate and belittle her affront to my intelligence. Though what I ended up doing was smiling and nodding my head and going along with her little masquerade for a time. In the end what was required of me to go and get was a copy of the lease that my parents have signed showing that I was a tenant on it from the current year’s agreement.
Not so difficult right? WRONG! When we pulled into the Rental Agencies place of business and spoke with one of the representatives there it didn’t seem like it was going to be all that much of a hassle to get a copy of the lease showing that I was a tenant on it. Though somewhere in the mix some asshole came out and informed us that they were going to have to run a criminal background check on my sister and I because we were trying to change the lease and that we had never initially signed the lease to begin with. Being that we were both over the age of 18 we had to fill out applications and the whole nine yards. I just started laughing because well my criminal history is a bit jaded. I mean honestly I was just released about five weeks ago from a state run jail. So of course my criminal background check is going to get flagged and humorously enough I won’t even be able to live with my parents long enough to receive the help that I do need for my medical affliction…
So in wrapping this up I am currently pissed off at society because here I am trying to get the help that I need so I can become a productive member of society. So as that I can get away from the past the things that I have done. Though now it looks as though doors are being slammed in my face and I will be kicked out onto the streets to be one of the many wandering vagrants. I laugh at the irony that me, a person who has never once in his life asked for help, asks for the help to get my life in order is now being ‘possibly’ forced into making a drastic decision. The only avenue that I feel is open to me if all this goes down the way I believe it will, will be to go back into drug dealing or to leave the state of Texas entirely. To start over somewhere else, and hell even possibly in another country. Though to do that I would have to get my passport again. More bureaucratic red tape!! How I look forward to the future that does not appear to be very forth coming.
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