Posted on 03/24/2013 8:11:51 AM PDT by Theoria
Article by NPR on the rise of disability claims.
Rise in disability fraud is more like it. So many Social Security lawyer scammers on TV now it’s ridiculous.
Amazing how NPR manages to miss the real story/cause and effect.
The problem here...is that disability payments weren’t built to this standard in the system. We’d have to take another three-to-five percent of a guy’s salary....to make this work in the next forty years forward. But the question is....where is the line for this?
This reminds me of my Air Force days, and a guy who played on the base basketball team for three years. He’d had various aches and pains, twisted muscles, and at least two operations by the fourth year. Somewhere by age twenty-eight, he was declared disabled and given a discharge from the Air Force...with full disability (100 percent). All of this...from sports. We all shook our heads over this, but you can’t stop these kind of actions.
I would like to see the racial and educational breakdown of the people on disability.
Well... I have a Master’s degree and I’m on my feet all day. I teach middle school and I rarely sit down. I’m at the front of the room either guiding the reading, writing on the board, showing a movie — but I’m one of those irritating types who pauses it frequently to point things out — so I really just do not sit down. I also have horrible lower back pain and have since I was a teenager. You just suck it up and keep going. It helps not to stand still.
When Soros and the WH call about a giant distraction story to be printed to throw off the Lefties who read your drivel (just like today’s WaPo) article on guns...
You do it. They sign your paychecks.
My wife was in collections, helping people repay the disability insurance company when they received their first lump-sum check from the government. Her job was the only one actually generating revenue, and the idiot woman did not value it, so they lost the contract with the insurance company.
The law firm is going under now, and it looks like the captain of industry is about to be prosecuted by the Feds. The only reason, of course, is because she is not one of Eric Holder's people. If she were, any crimes would be A-OK.
“Crazy Checks”, money paid for mental disorders. BTW, if you can get your little bastard diagnosed as disabled, mamma be getting an additional check from Obama.
Based on the story I'd say educational level of the average recent applicant is high school graduate or less. Racial makeup is probably all over the board.
And I get to tolerate 'California is a welfare case' posts while Californians FUND this kind of largesse.
BTW, the biggies are obviously back pain and mental illness, both of which are easily faked.
“Just suck all the benefits you can out of the system until everything is gone, and then you’re on your own.”
Wonderful. And the a**hole giving that advice never once considered the fact that the “system” is people like me who drag our asses out of bed everyday at 530 to pay for their “benefits”.
I swear somedays I can’t wait until the shooting starts.
“History has judged Clinton’s welfare reform a big success.”
Only if history is being written by brain dead liberal jackasses with no regard whatsoever for the facts. Clintoons “ending of welfare” reforms are in fact the MAJOR cause of the mess we are in. His ‘ending’ meant spreading it over 80 government programs and hiding the true cost.
I suggest you go to this website and start with this article if you want the actual truth. (DO NOT send me any private e-mails about wanting your monitor or keyboard replaced - if you can’t deal with finding out how badly we are getting screwed, don’t click below!)
http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2012/10/welfare-is-at-an-all-time-high
and I felt uncomfortable about taking disability for injuries related to military service.
A definitely Red State problem. I wonder why since Red states aren’t supposed to be freeloaders since they are more conservative. Kinda disappointing. I was hoping it was the blue states who had the disability scam. Rats!!!!
Society has changed dramatically. More people have less honor now, and shame has disappeared from the societies response to control such actions or in setting the social norms.
I worked with the family of a Sergeant who went into a seizure and never came back out. He was kept in an induced coma to try to stop the seizure. When death was imminent, he was medically retired. I argued with the “experts” when they tried to designate him as “50% Disabled.”
At the mill.
At the plant.
At the factory.
At the farm.
At the mine.
At the jobsite.
See the common denominator?
Didn't think so.
What to do with millions of displaced workers? You can only hide and placate so many of them. It's also getting much harder to hide the workers and countries of origin that displaced these Americans.
It's also going to get more difficult to convince Americans to continue to federally subsidize cheap foreign labor and profiteering at the expense of national sovereignty.
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