Posted on 03/28/2013 9:35:53 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
When President Clinton signed "welfare reform" into law in 1996, he promised to end welfare as we know it. Now, some new reporting suggests we've created a new kind of welfare -- only most Americans aren't aware of it.
The number of people who depend on checks from Social Security's disability programs has soared in recent years, according to NPR's series "Unfit for Work: the Startling Rise of Disability in America." The reports, which began over the weekend and continue this week, raise the question: How disabled are the recipients, really? As you might imagine, they have touched a nerve.
A quick primer: the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program provides monthly cash assistance to people who are poor and disabled, including families with disabled children. The basic monthly SSI cash benefit is a set amount -- currently $710 for an individual and $1,066 for a couple. The Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program also provides monthly cash assistance, to disabled people who have worked in jobs covered by Social Security. People who leave the workforce and go on disability also qualify for Medicare.
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After six months of investigation, NPR reporter Chana Joffee-Walt concluded that Social Security's disability programs have become "a de facto welfare program for people without a lot of education or job skills." In the past three decades, she reports, the number of Americans who are on disability has skyrocketed:
(Excerpt) Read more at inplainsight.nbcnews.com ...
Autism is real; in my experience the “spectrum” is a scam. A couple I know has a son (an only child) who is completely normal; they claim he is “on the autism spectrum”, but can’t elaborate on any symptoms. When you watch the child play with others the only thing that makes him different from others is that he obvously doesn’t have siblings; consideration of others and sharing are alien to him. He’ll do it, but it is obviously a foreign concept - he isn’t accustomed to playing with other children. He is normal in EVERY OTHER WAY (and very normal for an only child).
The claims that over 2% of children born today are “on the autism spectrum” should set off red flags for everyone; people are happy to have an excuse when their children show signs of being raised by television several hours a day, often with only one parent.
>>leftists have thoroughly infiltrated the military as well.
Uhuh.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=va+disability+for+snoring
Something lie 60% of vets are getting disability when they separate from the military.
YES
>>leftists have thoroughly infiltrated the military as well.
Leftists and perverts.
For example this (alleged) POS:
RETAAS Corporation is a Native American, Service Disabled Veteran Owned professional services small business providing research, engineering, and technical advice and assistance services to Federal, state, and local governments, and private industry. We are a Colorado corporation headquartered in Peyton, Colorado, just outside of Colorado Springs. Our trained professional staff have over 150 years combined experience in leading and supporting successful contract performance for federal systems acquisitions and sustainment, business support, and training and services contracts. We can provide the small-business lead for your next contract effort.
RETAAS provides quality advice and assistance services concentrating in the areas of: Program/Project Management; Risk Management; Organizational Studies and Analysis, Communications, Logistics Analysis; Integrated Logistics Support, Systems Acquisition Requirements Development, Acquisition Logistics, and Operations & Maintenance Support. We provide systems planning throughout concept, development, operations, sustainment, and disposition.
RETAAS staff experience includes many years of military support services in the areas of Acquisition, Space Control, Launch Services, Test, Data Management, Training, Maintenance Management, Provisioning, Configuration Management, Scheduling, Concept Development, Facilities Planning, Communications, and Operations.
President | Ronald Stanley ronald.stanley@retaas.com 719-749-2022 |
Sheriff's deputies searching for suspect in child sex assault
February 16, 2011 | LANCE BENZEL |
El Paso County sheriff's deputies are searching for a Peyton man accused of trying to coax a young girl to learn about sex by doling out $100 bills from a cash box he kept at his bedside.
Ronald Dean Stanley, 59, was arrested more than a year ago but is being sought anew since missing a Feb. 7 court hearing.
El Paso County sheriff's spokeswoman Lt. Lari Sevene said Stanley was expected to plead guilty to sex charges related to the girl's abuse and separate allegations that he possessed child pornography.
According to court documents, Stanley was arrested Feb. 11, 2010, after the girl's parents reported the abuse to the sheriff's office.
" Service Disabled Veteran "
Bullshyte. How does a LIFER REMF pencil pushing child molester become "service disabled"?
I can see why you’re angered by this, it sounds outrageous, but you’re possibly exposing FR and even hourself to legal action. Maybe you should ask the admin mod to take this down.
Did you happen to notice the link to the El Paso County Sheriff’s department’s Most Wanted page?
Ronald’s free to turn himself in anytime — though that might be difficult if his snoring playmates fed him to a wood chipper.
>>The system will have to collapse, and it will.
“Disability” points are a significant factor in the hiring process that manufactures the government termite mound.
“Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY
Are we there yet?
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