Posted on 07/30/2013 8:46:58 AM PDT by magellan
Recipients of federal disability checks often admit that they are capable of working but cannot or will not find a job, that those closest to them tell them they should be working, and that working to get off the disability rolls is not among their goals.
More baffling, most have never received significant medical treatment and not seen a doctor about their condition in the last year, even though medical problems are the official reason they don't work. Those who acknowledge they're on disability because they can't find a job say they make little effort to find one, according to a Washington Examiner analysis of federal survey results.
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I cannot imagine how much worse it is today in 2013.
Like the guy I know, a union electrician, who could easily be earning a nice wage, but instead sits around drinking beer and watching porn?
Except when he is hanging off his rafters installing his Christmas lights?
Was just looking at my SS statement.
If I work my @ss off until age 62, I can then start getting $1500 a month. But if I pretend to be disabled, I can get $2100 per month starting today!
So are there really any surprises here?
People on disability could really work if they wanted to?
No. Really? Who knew?
Actual conversation:
Me: Liberals don’t really care how much fraud and abuse there are in these programs, as long as everyone gets covered that they think needs it.
Libinlaw: We do TOO care about the fraud and abuse...[2 second pause]... but we have to make sure that everyone that needs help gets it.
Me: That’s what I just said!
Libinlaw: [pause]... well, I’ll have to think about it...it just sounded so mean when you said it.
Disability has become a big scam.
It is the new welfare without the need for children.
Eat too much? Made yourself morbidly obese? no problem taxpayers will pay for you to eat more.
I am shocked how many normal people are on disability with minimal excuses.
This is news? My worthless brother-in-law (If you know him he probably owes you money)quit working back in 1981 and has not worked a day since. He often just walked off jobs for no reason. Due to his laziness he is in such bad health because of no exercise, that he is almost a basket case.
Bad joints, diabetes due to getting fat, ect. He managed to claim a football injury as a Naval injury and got a VA pension for years. He had his wife do the serious work till she lost her job. Now they have almost lost their house due to HIS bad management of money.(”Poor little me! It’s everybody else’s fault”) They have NO excess funds to cover anything.
What is galling is a high paying job opened up for him back in 1981. I called him and told him of the pay, the medical and retirement benefits and why he should jump at this job!
His words to me was...”I don’t want to do that kind of work!” and he didn’t.
Needless to say, he is a dyed in wool DEMOCRAT and supports Hillary.
Down in the ‘hood they call it “crazy money.” Go get a diagnosis of a mental illness from the neighborhood pill roller, get your disability award, and spend your days on the porch stoop with a brown paper bag containing a bottle of “red” between your legs.
Ain’t life great?
“If I work my @ss off until age 62, I can then start getting $1500 a month. But if I pretend to be disabled, I can get $2100 per month starting today!”
Are you serious? No wonder the system is abused!
There must be a corresponding industry of enabling ‘professionals’ building up the numbers; without such intellectual and moral corruption, most people would have too much self-respect to become wards of the state.
“But if I pretend to be disabled, I can get $2100 per month starting today!”
Just wow.........
Disability is the new welfare for those without small children. I personally know several people on disability who could be working, and at least one has a husband working full time totally able to support them, but she can stay home and have her nails done or go shopping. And note I said someone I know, not someone I like or visit with.
a cure to liberalism would be the threat of nationalizing the legal profession.
we have obamacare.
imagine the screams for obamalegal.
lawyer exchanges etc. Price controls for the megafirms. In short, there will be no legal representation for anyone to assert constitutional rights. (ala ussr, china, lybia, etc.)
Here in California you could “just-put-yourself” on disability for no reason without a doctor until just a few years ago.
Cali is crazy and we draw third world second grade drop outs like flys to %$#*.
Good news: They could work
Bad news: No jobs
It is the new welfare for children too. Many children diagnosed with ADHD or other issues get SSI.
I love the idea.
To get people off of disability, I think we're going to have to offer guarantees that they can go immediately back on it if the job doesn't work out. At least then, they might try.
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