Significantly curtail who gets SS disability benefits. There are millions of able-bodied Americans who can work, but have scammed the system to collect disability payments. I know several of those lowlifes. They disgust me.
That is a good idea, and will solve perhaps 5% of the $25 trillion financial hole.
Not to mention their lawyers who routinely collect 1/3 of their benefits. In short, it’s been a legal goldmine.
SS Disability Insurance is nearly broke and they are talking about a benefit reduction. Let’s see if that actually happens or if Congress blinks. I predict the latter.
I too am disgusted by these deadbeats. There are now so many of them it’s impossible to ignore them or give them the benefit of the doubt. Most older Americans have health issues that make it difficult for them to work. The interesting thing is; if they had never worked, they wouldn’t be eligible anyway. Not so for the millions of obviously able bodied, carefree dead weight I see every day riding around on ATVs, in nice cars, going on vacations and eating expensive food that me and my daughter and son-in-law, who work every day and overtime, couldn’t begin to afford because we’re taxed to death to support this scum.
I have also noticed a subtle but obvious change in the way medical care is given(or not) to older adults. Hospice is suggested sooner and it dispatches(can’t find a better word) its obvious duties more quickly than they used to as a last resort. This isn’t my imagination since I have been caring for my older family members for some years now.
After seventy-five collective years of hard work, my parents received a bare subsistence from Social Security before they died. Now, I watch young, gleeful, strong young men and women, eating, drinking, procreating and having their offspring cared for and educated with taxpayer’s money without ever working a day in their lives.
And yet, when the gargantuan national debt comes up in debate; the first thing politicians think of cutting is Social Security. Even the illegal aliens who are pouring into this country by the thousands will receive many more dollars worth of benefits than older American citizens who have worked all their lives.
You always get more of what you support. When the productive older generation is finally gone, their work ethic and productivity will die with them and the deadbeat, entitlement minded generations that are left will wonder what happened to the America their parents and grandparents sacrificed to build. That nation didn’t come about by its citizens sitting in government provided housing, eating government provided food and watching a TV that someone else paid for. However, the Socialist States of America are coming into being very nicely with that kind of people at the helm. It will be a fate that is well deserved by the lazy masses that allowed it.
Heroin addicts and chronic alcoholics qualify as "disabled" thanks to Congress-critters who see expanding the Ponzi scheme as an excellent way to buy votes. The stipends paid out go toward buying more heroin and liquor, with the government subsidizing their dependency and robbing retirees of the funds they contributed over a lifetime of hard work.
There are also millions of Americans unable to work who truly need disability payments who have filed, been rejected (always happens the first time around), rinse and repeat... This cycle repeats until they can scrape together enough cash to hire a lawyer who specializes in handling Social Security disability cases. More often then not the case is then approved (this happened to my brother and he was not unique by any means).
Regards,
GtG
How many people in Baltimore sitting around ready to ‘protest’ are on ‘disability’?
My guess is MORE than those in Detroit.