Don’t discount the role of lawyers in this. Take a look at daytime TV and you will see a steady stream of commercials from lawyers promising to get you the disability benefits you deserve.
The America I grew up in is dead and gone. The way I see it, it's time to get back at least some of the tax dollars I flushed down the government toilet my whole working life. May as well get some back before the Democrat party base of moochers gobbles it all up. I mean, are we supposed to sit around watching the moochers game the system while we get up and go to work every day?
Screw it. Every man for himself.
Another arm of the Cloward-Piven strategy which the O Administration is engaged in to bring down the greatest country ever to grace the earth.
Does disability pay a “living wage”??
Can it put kids through college?
My knee hurts all the time, do I qualify?
:p
You can get disability from depression? Damn! I’m depressed every Monday morning when my alarm clock goes off. Where do I sign up?
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Sounds like my ex-wife.
As a shrink, I briefly hired myself out years ago doing disability evals for SSDI via a company that managed such services. There was no pressure to declare someone disabled or not, just do an eval, but the work was still unpleasant. I disliked the ones who were trying to scam the system, as well as the difficulty in determining who they were based on a ludicrous set of eval questions we were required to present to them.
That was years ago, and now that I am in private practice it is a conflict of interest. My job as a physician is to diagnose and treat illness, not to get people government checks, whether they “deserve” them or not. It is always my goal to get people well, to return them or bring them to full functionality, or as close to it as possible. Psychiatrically, people are at their best when working, even if just bagging groceries or digging a ditch. Are there exceptions? Sure, but darn few.
In my intake paperwork I spell out what I do and don’t do in my practice. If someone wants to see me for a disability eval, I don’t see them because I don’t do such evals. I also find such patients poorly motivated to get well - because then they will end up loosing their monthly income and other benefits - and I only see patients who want to get well at this point in my career. Disability is a dead end on all levels. End of story.
If someone is an established patient of mine and wants disability, I explain that I will send records to the government or their attorney, but will not otherwise participate. If they go that route, especially if they are really not disabled in any significant way, I will almost always find a gentle way to transfer them on to a new provider, especially when their insurance changes. But it’s about much more than the money: at this stage in my career I only see people I want to see, and people I respect, and people I think I can help, and who want to get well, and not people who simply want to use me and my skills to further the welfare state and further the decline of our society, and defraud the taxpayers of this country, of which I am certainly one.
I have been feeling increasingly sad since Obama got re-elected. How much disability money can I get?
They can’t X-ray pain.
By 2016, 75% of the people will be parasites.
In a way this is a modern version of going Galt with a touch of Clowerd and Pivin added in. Going Galt in that you are not contributing to the looters, by becoming a looter. And, Clowerd and Pivin by contributing to overwhelming the system. It is the best of both worlds looting the looters and destroying the system that allows them to loot.
I've been feeling sad since November 6th.
The previous company I worked for shut the doors and moved to China...Of the employees, 4 were brothers...
These guys all have families...Unemployment runs out...3 of the 4 are now on disability...
A guy has to keep his family going regardless of the route he has to take...This is a problem of our own doing...What do people expect these guys to do??? Just lay down and die???
Every week over 400,000 people lose their jobs in the U.S...Their jobs are still leaving the country...And every year, how many young people join the job market???
You can’t even buy a can of mushrooms that doesn’t come from China...
If we are not willing to bring work back to the U.S., somebody will have to support these people and it will be us...So why the whining??? Look at all the cheap stuff we can get at the Chinese Dollar Stores...
Where do I begin? I've had 5 major back surgeries: the first when I was 20 years old, the second when I was 30 years old, the third when I was 40 years old, the fourth when I was 43 years old, and the fifth when I was 46 years old. (I'm 50 now.)
My third back surgery was so major, I have complete neuropathy in both feet from all the nerve damage. (Neuropathy = no feeling "numb" in both feet.)
I walk with a slight limp from all the surgeries. I've blown out my right knee and had that surgically repaired - twice.
My left hip is wearing out (from the limping, and added pressure on my left side from all the back surgeries.)
Add to this, I have a slight double-vision and a mild dyxlexia.
And yet, I get my ass up out of bed EVERY DAY and go to work and take care of my own family without a single dime of help from anyone.
I don't get EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit) or any disability payments of any kind. No food stamps, or government assistance of any kind.
Last year I paid a total of $57,962 in taxes. That includes all State, Federal and local property taxes, but does not include sales taxes for goods or services I buy over the year. You'd think someone paying that amount of taxes surely makes over $250k a year. I don't. Not even close. I don't even make $200k or $150k.
Someone tell me WHY someone like me not only cannot get DISABILITY, my taxes are going UP to pay for some welfare king & queen to keep mooching off of me!!!!
Makes me want to puke.
When I blew out my back the workers comp people told me that only 10% of people with my injury return to work. I couldn’t get off the floor for a month and the pain was worse than kidney stones by far. I was back at work in 10 months and would have been back sooner if they would have approved surgery right away rather than torturing me with assinine things like pain management and chiropractors.
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I know two people in one home living off disability. One is undeterminable and the other has sensitive hearing. Both liberals. I don’t think the woman has ever worked a real job but she lives at the local pool and pays for it by.....wait for it....working there.