[blueunicorn6]

Excuse me.

He is getting over $100,000 a year from the taxpayers because he’s depressed?

And the VA will fight a Veteran to the death over a nickel?

Something’s not right here.

[utax]

daddy huckster Jackson knew to check jr. into the hospital long enough to qualify for “disability”.

[Wolfie]

He’s playing the game as designed. So it goes.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Let’s just presume that “bi-polar disorder” is a disability you can suddenly “get”, rather than a disease that pre-exists regardless of your employment.

Let’s also presume that he “got” it because of being a congressman, and that depression and his disorder were NOT triggered instead by BEING THROWN IN PRISON FOR BEING A CRIMINAL.

The real problem remaining is this — he was not a “federal employee”, he was a congressman. He lost his job NOT because of his disease, but because he RESIGNED when he was convicted of a felony, since he would have been kicked out for that.

So I don’t understand how he gets workers compensation payments for not working at a job he wouldn’t have anyway.

Workers Comp is supposed to be for job-related injuries that prevent you from doing the job you would otherwise hold.

[GOPJ]

The president of a taxpayer watchdog group said the payments show "the system is still finding a way to take care of ex-lawmakers convicted of crimes and often in better fashion ... than many Americans with lesser financial means could expect. "Once again, the average taxpaying citizen is left to wonder if justice was done for them,"

The 'average taxpaying citizen' knows what's been done to them - and it sure ain't 'justice'...

[zzwhale]

jive asses have it all figured out...

CORRUPTION
FRAUD
LARCENY
POLITICAL OFFICE
DISABILITY

[DungeonMaster]

WHAT!!??

[blam]

Lois Lerner is still laughing at you with her $102,600 a year government pension.

[sphinx]

Georgetown Law professor David Super noted that workers' compensation and Social Security Disability are insurance programs, so Jackson's benefits simply reflect his years as a well-paid congressman. Jackson entered the House in 1995, when lawmakers earned $133,600 a year, and he had several pay raises while in office. "There's an argument for designing the programs differently, more as subsistence programs," Super said, "but that's not what we've done."

Yes. Because what we have done is to create an enormous incentive to game the system by retiring on disability and workman's comp. Which appears to be what J.J.Jr. has done. I'm sure it helps to have political influence; some appropriate authority should subpoena his file and see if undue influence was brought to bear.

It also helps if there is a local culture of abuse. One of my ancient memories, dating from shortly after I came to DC, was a briefing on the cheating going on at that time, back about 1979-80. This was back during Marion Barry days when DC government was a looters' racket. One of the examples given was DC police officers, an astonishingly high percentage of whom retired on disability and workmen's comp (a lot of them complaining of pain from flat feet ...). It was obvious that people had figured out how to game the system. There was a corrupt subculture of doctors who would sign the paperwork and examiners who would accept it, all facilitated by the union, which protected the racket, and a political class that had its own fingers in the till.

[Ann Archy]

President Trump....STOP THIS MADNESS!!!

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping.

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