I’m sorry you’ve found it necessary to apply for disability.
I’m puzzled though by this post, and many others on FR who find it necessary to openly discuss their application and/or qualification for entitlement programs.
It’s part of the normalization of government dependency. While I’m in the camp that dependency on government programs in at least some instances is nothing to be ashamed of, it is also nothing one should be willing to openly discuss.
A conservative approach to dependency would be to keep it to yourself, get off of it as soon as possible and do not talk about it as if it were “normal”. Dependency is not “normal”.
You appear to be planning for a long future of dependency on entitlement programs. I’m sorry for you, and for an America where this becomes something one can post randomly on an erstwhile conservative website.
We are truly lost, if this is our “new normal”
Well, some of us are permanently disabled and that is nothing to be ashamed of.
SS disability is also not an entitlement program. The money I receive is what I paid into the system all my working life, starting at the age of 15 and working 35 years before becoming disabled.
Perhaps a little research into the subject before you comment on it would be helpful.
And since I am sure there is more than one disabled person here, the input from fellow members could prove invaluable.
So please stop thinking that everyone who does not work is a freeloader and doesn’t want to work. Your attitude does not serve you well.
What is that all about??? If someone, through no fault of their own, becomes disabled why should they then be ashamed or not want to openly discuss? Sure there are abuses of the system but to arbitrarily apply some personal bias is rather tacky. I had polio when I was two years old and knew many others. While I was fortunate enough to have had the ability to build and run my own businesses all my life and not have to ever take assistance I know many who did not have that ability.
Your statement was cold hearted and certainly not well thought out with what little information available.
“It’s part of the normalization of government dependency.”
I didn’t like it much, when I got my draft notice because I had a wife, a baby, and a good job. I was 20 years old.
But when my time was honorably finished, I started back in college using my G.I. Bill, and 3 years later bought a home with my VA insured loan.
The loan was repaid, and my education yielded higher tax revenues, more than repaying the cost to the government of the school assistance.