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Originally Posted by Dudd
We're taking away their disability check suzzer, time for some good old fashioned boot strapping time
I'm on record as predicting that never happens. Too politically toxic for both sides. No one wants to see those people back on the unemployment rolls.
Also disability is vague enough, and varies per region, that you can favor white people with it. Win - win for the Trump camp. My stepdad worked as a mechanic his whole life missing an eye and with a wooden leg. When he felt like retiring at 60 or so, a doctor friend got him on full disability.
My friend lost lost most of the sight in one eye and had bad cataracts in the other. She applied for disability, got denied, which is normal. My uncle who worked as a computer programmer got denied after a stroke that seriously limited his cognitive ability. He won on appeal. My friend out here got a free lawyer, went through the whole appeal process - they told her she could work at a car wash.
Now whether or not she could have worked is up for debate. But if you've ever been to a car wash in LA - aint no 40-ish white women with all kinds of health problems out there washing cars. They basically told her to **** off. There seems to be a ton of wiggle room in the requirements.
Now compare to what's going on in
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This is how Spencer spends most of his days, ferrying to the dollar store and back, collecting soda, cigarettes and whatever else his family may want, and consoling them when he’s around. Most days he doesn’t mind. He likes feeling like the strong one when it seems as though almost everyone he knows is either applying for or already on disability. Just the night before, during a family dinner, it had struck him again.
“She walks, and it breaks her bones,” his cousin, who applied for disability after a nervous breakdown, had said of another relative receiving disability.
“She falls a lot,” added his aunt, who collects $733 monthly in disability checks because of back pain.
Spencer, listening to the conversation, had looked around. At the table was another cousin, who has bipolar disorder and receives $701 per month. Beside her was her boyfriend, whose mom had applied for disability, too. Spencer glanced at the ceiling and sighed.
“The whole world is on disability,” he said.
“It’s a tough world,” someone else said.
This whole article is just heartbreaking. I grew up in a poor blue collar part of Independence MO where had a junkyard against our backyard, and ditches running along the road instead of sewers. I went back after my stepdad died, nothing has changed except all the houses look 20 years older. A bunch of my old neighbors are on disability or some kind of govt assistance. As was my stepdad's dirt poor family from SE Texas. Only difference is the MO people were morbidly obese whereas the Texas people looked like dried-up shoe leather.
One thing is for sure once you're on disability, almost no one ever goes off. There's no facility for making sure people are still disabled. They basically have to voluntarily give it up.
Last edited by suzzer99; 05-26-2017 at 04:52 PM.