How many fakers are collecting disability when they could work?How many couch-sitters out there sponging off friends and relatives?Gaming the system has been elevated to an art form.
I have no doubt there are some. But I saw the ugly side of disability from watching the unending decline of a close relative who was disabled.
With jobs going overseas, easy access to non-citizen labor, and lack of any need to work with people because their skills were needed, the recession became a nightmare for a lot of the disabled. They became unemployable at salaries and with benefits that would cover any real medical needs they had.
Add to that, to stay on disability, those collecting have to stay sick and even get worse, or they'd have no benefits at all. Once one is on disability, it's just about impossible to move somewhere else, because the benefit structure ties one to the providers. Add to that disability isn't geared toward rehabilitation, it's from what I could see more motivated by medical providers who kept piling on more stuff for their profit. How do you tell a loved one that they aren't that sick when the doctor gives even more prescriptions to someone who already has ten of them? How do you tell them they'd breathe better if they lost weight when the doctor says they need oxygen and a new pacemaker?
I'm not saying everyone on disability gets caught in that whirlpool. But I saw it happen to someone I cared about, and at some point there was no escape.
So please don't be so harsh on a whole category of people. It doesn't help solve the problem.
“How many fakers are collecting disability when they could work?How many couch-sitters out there sponging off friends and relatives?Gaming the system has been elevated to an art form.”
That crap, “gaming the system”, otherwise known as FRAUD perhaps gets me more angry than illegals undercutting wages and taking jobs from citizens. I absolutely loathe these scum who collect ‘disability’ and either sit on their asses all day or worse, go out and work for ‘extra’ cash. I understand that there are those out there who are genuinely disabled and require assistance of some sort. My heart (and wallet) especially goes out to those who became disabled in the service to our nation. But for those who “game the system, God’s justice, and a swift and severe punishment here on earth can’t come soon enough!!! A HUGE part of the problem lies in that it has become socially acceptable, and even encouraged, with a large portion of our society to “game the system”. I would rather see an illegal, who on his own volition traveled great lengths, and jumped our border, work hard and succeed in our nation, than a reasonably healthy American young man “gaming the system” at the expense of those of us who work and pay taxes. I loathe the illegals too, but these punks collecting disability, food stamps, food boxes, countless doctors visits seeking to find something wrong, etc, etc, are far worse as they are TRAITORS! Then many of them have the audacity to bad mouth our nation and even brag about how they get away with it. And it’s not just limited to men. There was that YouTube video of that negro woman who explained how to game the system by having more and more kids, having grandma collect the day care, and how anyone can collect all the other gibs-me-dats too.
Unless our next president puts an end to all the fraudulent ‘entitlements’, giving these people a swift kick in the ass, this nation will continue to circle the drain.