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Why is someone on Social Security Disability leasing a Focus? I make $134k/yr, have a mortgage free home and drive a 2001 Corolla. I suppose if I was in a position where frugality was pointless, I’d piss government money away, too.


2 posted on 10/13/2012 5:54:40 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ( Message to President Obama: Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I suppose if I was in a position where frugality was pointless, I’d piss government money away, too.

That's exactly it.
4 posted on 10/13/2012 5:57:07 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

1984 Mercedes 300D I bought for $100 seven years ago.

17 posted on 10/13/2012 6:13:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Why is someone on Social Security Disability leasing a Focus? I make $134k/yr, have a mortgage free home and drive a 2001 Corolla. I suppose if I was in a position where frugality was pointless, I’d piss government money away, too.

You have one other tiny little thing - genuinely earned self-respect.

You know, the thing that this entire world laughs and spits at as utterly worthless, but that God hold as the only true currency in the universe.

19 posted on 10/13/2012 6:14:24 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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You are asking the wrong questions.

Just look at how many different government programs she qualifies for! She is a virtual goldmine, for government assistance program employees.
Without her, they would all lose their jobs!
I bet she listens very carefully to their coaching questions and answers correctly often enough to score an “A” on the entitlements tests and re-qualifications

She is probably Caucasion ,Hispanic/Latino or Asian. Black women, for whatever reasons, tend to miss absolute bureaucratic deadlines for re-qualifications, and struggle harder to milk the entitlement system to the fullest degree possible.

If one is actually physically and/or mentally disabled, it's extremely hard to “qualify” for all the “benefits” for which you are supposedly entitled.
The government bureaucrats don't WANT to deal with your type, because you probably won't understand how the system is supposed to work to their benefit first, and then trickle down to benefit you, pretty much as an afterthought.

45 posted on 10/13/2012 7:12:56 PM PDT by sarasmom
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Friggin PO’s me.
Home from my fifth back surgery (20 hours ago) and I’ve been doing work since 10 hours after. I’ve had two shoulder surgeries. Not even 50 yet.

Disability? Yeah, I think I could qualify. But I WANT to work. I WANT to keep learning and improving.

I do not understand the desire to milk the system. EBT card carriers overload on tatoos and manicures.

Argh.


56 posted on 10/13/2012 7:34:38 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Why is someone on Social Security Disability leasing a Focus? I make $134k/yr, have a mortgage free home and drive a 2001 Corolla. I suppose if I was in a position where frugality was pointless, I’d piss government money away, too.

Don't judge all on disability by her. I'm on disability and have been since 1994 back when it was nearly impossible to get on it. My wife has been on it since 1985. My wife is a quadriplegic. Her disability doesn't need to be explained the word quadriplegic says it all.

I went on it nine years afterward due to some serious but non life threatening issues in my Central Nervous System involving sensory processing. A life long issue that finally became disabling when it reached seizure level. I walk with a cane now for balance issues and nobody questions my disability because I use the cane. Two years ago I didn't need it. Falls though made it a reality.

Our total combined income on disability is right at $1500mo. No extra help like SSI. No Food Stamps either. Some of our meds are paid for by Part D many more like one for Asthma for her is $100mo just for the co-pay for one medication. We have a 98 Dodge High Top conversion Van. A necessity because of a 300 plus pound wheel chair {empty} and a 300 pound hydraulic lift the van must carry.

She gets no home health care assistance. I am the caregiver {unlicensed nurse} just as I was when I was working and leaving her home by herself. That was sometimes 16 hours straight if my relief worker failed to show. If an emergency came up for her a faimily member could respond within a couple minutes though.

Not everyone on disability is in a wheelchair. Nor all all or for that matter most gaming the system. My sister five years older is on disability after she became widowed a few years ago. She's had several major strokes and now Dementia onset. She qualified for disability because she was over 54 and disabled and widowed. It's a small age window 54-62 put in the rules to cover stay at home mothers who had not ever worked but were disabled and suddenly widowed.

Income wasn't an issue when her husband was alive so they never applied for help. When B.I.L. was out of work due to lay offs a couple of times he couldn't get help for her though.

59 posted on 10/13/2012 7:54:15 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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