I eat too much and collect disability..... SUCKERS
I disagre that American are happy with the ADA.
It’s almost a total waste of money.
Curbs in cities cut down for rmps that almost no one uses, Special buses, handicapped urinals ,making everything handicapped accessible is a large waste of resources and expense.
Putting in electronic doors that are barely ever used business’s having to Make their businees accessible to handicapped workers when they employ no handicapped workers.
I don’t mean to sound like a hard ass here, but the money we have tossed at the ADA act has been disproportionate in the max to the needs of the handicapped.
Oh Well cutting down all of the curbs gave jobs to Mexican concrete workers.
I have to wonder if those currently transitioning from unemployment (which you have to be able to work to collect?) to disability are waiting anywhere near that long?
I recently interviewed a woman 24 years old who has six kids (one set of twins).
She had left the Employed? and Employer? questions on the info sheet blank so I asked if she had a job.
“Yep, she replied, “My job is to get all my kids on disability. My Mama did that for me and now I want to do it for my kids. I gotta figure out a way to get the lawyer’s money and we’ll be all set.”
As I looked through her paper work, I noticed she gets a disability check of $600 something a month. Her youngest child was also on disability getting $400 something a month.
In addition, she had her two youngest kids in WIC, and was receiving housing assistance, and food stamps.
I was pissed off at the system for the rest of the day.
Another fav of mine is to ask an interviewee if they have a job and have them spit at me, “I get a government check!”
And I won't get started on all the DI fraud I see all the time.
I know and have known several of men like this they can hunt ,fish and do all kinds of fun things. But it is to painful to do any type of work.
Well, you get fat welfare momma pretending she’s crazy, and she’s got six kids pretending they have ADD and she’s pulling in close to $5,000 in cash each month. Add in food stamps, medicaid and section 8, and she’s living the easy life. Never worked a day in her life, BTW.
Party time on your dime.
I use the masculine pronoun intentionally, because an increasing number of American men have dropped out of the workforce altogether. In 1948, 89 percent of men age 20 and over were in the workforce.
He’s got a point there, a small one though. How many men have been pushed out of the work force through the feminization of it?
I am disabled. I have kidney failure. Prior to my illness I was earning in excess of 4k a month working as an avionics technician. Now I receive around 1k a month in disability. I pray everyday that I’ll someday be able to get off dialysis and walk again so I can go back to work. I don’t know if that will ever happen. I would give anything to be able to go back to work, not just for the money but for the fulfillment I always felt with being able to do something productive and meaningful. I know how hard it is for some people to get on disability and how easy it seems to be for other people. The dirt-bags that are constantly gaming the system really tic me off. It makes it so much harder for people that really need a little help to get it. Please don’t think that everyone that receives disability got it by conning the government. There are those of us that are in need and grateful it’s there, and in most cases we would rather be out there working and could actually make more money if we could.
My personal experience w/people sucking off the government teat, is with women who are able-bodied thirty-somethings. Maybe it’s a regional thing with men being on the dole in more urban areas and women being more rural or suburban.
Have seen many cons over the years, usually with those in govt offices collaborating to assist women in maximizing their benefits. Imagine receiving 1100.00/month for carpal tunnel, backaches, or fibromyalgia. You just have to be breathing to receive income for life.
Once the unemployment insurance (insurance?) runs out, apply for Social Security Disability and once you get approved, you are set until Social Security kicks in at age 62. A few side jobs off the books and you can live pretty damn well.
When I was younger, I looked down on these people and prided myself in never drawing a dime from the government at any level. I paid for my own disability insurance and used it twice over approximately 40 years for a broken knee and back surgery. Now in my 70s, I realize I was an idiot. I should have collected as much as I could have scammed the system for.
There is no longer any stigma to living on the dole. In fact most living on the dole live one hell of a lot better than I do. Honor, honesty, integrity and self reliance are no longer a hallmark of Americans. I do grieve for my lost America.
If you ‘get’ to watch any daytime idjit tube, you can notice the amount of lawyers SPECIALIZING in SSDI....
Even got ‘Denny Crane’ hawking for them...
This is the same ‘class group’ that was swamped with BO ads in the afternoon - to capitalize on the ‘jerry springer/maury povich’ crowd, now overrun with Dr’s??????
(I just waste my time and efforts on the “Judge” shows), which, by the way, are becoming springerish, guess due to the fact that when they had 3 or 4 it wasn’t to bad but has blossomed into another ‘industry’.
I never could figure out why someone with a weelchair was given a parking spot closer to the store entrance than somone who has to walk all the way.
For a while my wife worked for a law firm that specialized in getting disability for people. Basically people are applying for disability when their unemployment benefits run out. And getting it.
“I use the masculine pronoun intentionally, because an increasing number of American men have dropped out of the workforce altogether.”
Well, in my experience, women get paid more than men, and get promoted over men nowadays, all while men are being told that the opposite is going on. Plus every man in the workplace has to tiptoe around hoping to avoid sexual harassment charges. I’m not surprised some of them are staying home.
I eat too much and collect disability..... SUCKERS
I know a 30’ woman married to a welding inspector. He makes good money. They have two kids 13 and 10. She has RA and is on disability. Says she cannot stand to work, yet she makes every school fund raiser, PTO function and seems to have no problem lifting anything or standing for hours working a concession stand and going hunting on their deer lease. Even her kids get a monthly check for her disability. The system is broken.
Kicker, she claims to be a staunch conservative and other than this talks like one and votes that way, or says she does.
I do not get this.
I was in an accident at work, that ended up with having five major surgeries in three years, but in California you can only collect benefits for to, so when I was cut off I still had two surgeries to go.
SS told me I was not eligible for disability because although I had the right number of quarters, they weren’t enough in the last years.
So how are these people doing this, is it lying?
Ok, I just don’t get it.
btt