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Can a Nation Built By Giants Survive the Disability Industrial Complex?
Flopping Aces ^ | 02-09-25 | Vince

Posted on 02/17/2025 7:44:34 AM PST by Starman417

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1 posted on 02/17/2025 7:44:34 AM PST by Starman417
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To: Starman417
Victim culture.

“Don’t heal me, I’m on disability.”

2 posted on 02/17/2025 7:51:39 AM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: Starman417

SSDI may end up being the biggest of all the scams.


3 posted on 02/17/2025 7:57:45 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: Starman417

I have mixed feelings about this. Hubs has muscular dystrophy but still farms part time and busts his hump as a laser operator at a local shop. Went back to work after breaking his leg in 5 places falling down out at the barn. He has been told he needs to stay active.

He is considering disability. Maybe.

His cousin worked in the service industry, mostly as a cook. She is very good. She has back issues from being caregiver to her mom who died of cancer, and several falls and is now finally on disability. After a long fight.

I’m glad it’s available for both so it irks me that others seemed to skate thru eligibility when they didn’t try nearly as hard to stay working compared to my family.


4 posted on 02/17/2025 8:01:47 AM PST by Cloverfarm ("As Americans ... we rise together or we fall apart." -- President Trump)
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The vast majority of Americans at that time were White and Christian , nowadays not so much.


5 posted on 02/17/2025 8:05:29 AM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: aquila48

I think you’re right but how deep does it go? What would the money trail look like?


6 posted on 02/17/2025 8:06:44 AM PST by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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I qualify as disabled. I still drag my butt to work. Doc even asked why, when I am fully qualified as being on the list many times over, I don’t medically retire. I told her I can’t, my mind won’t let me. Tees me off seeing people getting paid to screw off—I have the same “disabilities” they do. I get and I am sympathetic to easier or time adjusted work load, but not to full loafing off and getting a gubmint paycheck.


7 posted on 02/17/2025 8:09:04 AM PST by BudgieRamone (Everybody loves a bonk on the head)
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To: Starman417

Caveat: we all pay a forced premium for disability “insurance.” Like unemployment “insurance” ( I have been defrauded by both) it is not exactly welfare. We pay the premiums, albeit involuntarily.


8 posted on 02/17/2025 8:19:38 AM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Starman417

A few years back, just under half of the top 25 finishers in a major 12K running event were on total long term disability.


9 posted on 02/17/2025 8:23:30 AM PST by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: escapefromboston

We probably still would had we not stolen people from Africa to do the jobs in the fields, watch the kids and do the housekeeping for whites.


10 posted on 02/17/2025 8:26:33 AM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Starman417

my friends hubby has been disabled for the last 35 years.
He gets out and about to various businesses they own but does not “work” at any of them.


11 posted on 02/17/2025 8:27:37 AM PST by ronniesgal ( so is it okay that I said that??? GO TRUMP GO!!!!)
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To: napscoordinator

Blacks only ever made up 13% of the population.


12 posted on 02/17/2025 8:36:13 AM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: HIDEK6

I’ve watched a few episodes of *My 600 lb Life* and it’s appalling the number of grossly obese people are on disability, eating themselves into an early grave on the taxpayer dime. Not to mention the expense of their medical care.


13 posted on 02/17/2025 8:36:48 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: Cloverfarm; TheWriterTX; metmom; Jane Long; SamAdams76; Yaelle; ransomnote; Lazamataz

The writer is missing an important dimension to this “disability” surge.

Government complicity.

I was in Scouting for decades, first as a boy then an Assistant Scoutmaster. In the 70s and 80s, nobody was on meds except for asthma or Benadryl. But nowadays, about 1/3 of my Scouts at Summer Camp were on some type of meds, a lot of them for anxiety but a lot were for asthma etc.

The little DoodleBobs and Mrs B were in a homeschooling co-op. While it was a conservative Catholic co-op, we had a few organic-only and crunchy granola types (present company included). In general, there were some hyper kids but, to a much lesser extent than Boy Scouts, they were normal.

Complicity: The food supply in America has been infiltrated…soy, hfcs, dyes, and a chem lab full of poison in your cereal and meat. In addition, not to start a food fight, the vaccine schedule nowadays calls for about 20 injection by the time the infant is 6 months old.

And I’m not gonna get into the Covid shots.

Yes….we are all individuals and it’s not the Govt’s job to protect us from ourselves. Nobody is forcing Mom and Dad to feed the family Soy or FDA-injected burgers. I get it.

That said, after the government cripples family finances with confiscatory rates of income and property and sales taxes, kids are “forced” (yeah…I know…there is a choice…work with me…) to go to public school lest parents/guardians go to jail for truancy, and Leviathan funnels that money to USAID to undercut liberty or or Monsanto et al to poison us, it is hard for this libertarian to not stand athwart when an article like this is written and say STOP.


14 posted on 02/17/2025 8:50:44 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: Starman417

Paging Mr. Doge. Pick up the white courtesy phone for a message.


15 posted on 02/17/2025 8:58:02 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: Cloverfarm

A friend spent 40 years doing construction, all his joints are bad, and it’s painful to move.

He finally got approval for disability.


16 posted on 02/17/2025 9:00:44 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: metmom

My life quality has increased dramatically since 2020 when I turned the TV off.


17 posted on 02/17/2025 9:25:28 AM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: escapefromboston

True. And whites were always the majority. I was answering a person who only wanted whites in the country.


18 posted on 02/17/2025 9:55:18 AM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: DoodleBob
But nowadays, about 1/3 of my Scouts at Summer Camp were on some type of meds, a lot of them for anxiety but a lot were for asthma etc.

How many of them were on anti-depressants or ADHD drugs?

19 posted on 02/17/2025 9:57:32 AM PST by Lizavetta
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To: DoodleBob

Many years ago a pediatrician in a small Upstate NY town posted an article about the overuse of drugs on particularly boys for hyperactivity when what they needed was to just get outside and run and play.

When I see the crap pushed at kids in sugary drinks and highly processed foods like Pop-Tarts and most breakfast cereal, it’s no wonder they are *hyper-active* and *anxious*.

And the parents claim that their diet doesn’t play a role in it. Yet, how would they even know? The kids never get off the colors and flavorings long enough to see if it makes a difference.

Here’s hoping RFK Jr can make a difference.


20 posted on 02/17/2025 10:29:06 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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