Yes, I Will.

Freedom's Last Stand On The Web---FRee Republic | 6/9/11 | Alan Levy

[philman_36]

I no longer believe the money is there.
"Money" was never supposed to exist except in the Coins the Constitution authorized. (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 5)

House note,
Car note,
Federal Reserve Note.

It’s been replaced by a bunch of worthless IOUs.
You perpetually owe a "note" to the Feral Reserve as I see it. (that's not a typo)

[Norm Lenhart]

File and get ready to fight like hell.

I have chrons disease and am missing a big chunk of intestine due to multiple resections. I was given megadoses of steroids in my youth and I knew I’d have to pay the piper eventually but had to do what had to be done.

I was on Disability for a couple years and then went into remission. I spent the next 15 years working like a dog and missed only a handful of days due to the occasional flare-up. Well, the piper stopped by a little over a year ago and demanded his due. Complications from those surgeries (absorbtion issues, adhesion/intestinal stricturing are setting in as is the results of the steroids - joint degeneration and other forms of joy.

Not happy about not being able to work since every other day I’m in bed and even when I’m not, it ain’t pretty.

Shame? Yup. feel it every day. But what can you do. It happens. Not like I chose to be born with mine, nor did you, yours. As a result I have had to get a SSD lawyer, AGAIN, and I guarantee you will as well. They deny everyone in round 1 and the appeal. lawyer from my first go-around told me that. And so I fight again.

For those who claim that people on disability are somehow leeching off the system,; A: we payed into that system and B: Spend time with someone truly disabled and see what fun our ‘free ride’ really is.

[muawiyah]

So, why disability?

The answer is simple ~ it's called BLINDNESS. Once that happens you have less choice than no choice at all. Since the most ancient of times we've given the blind guy a preferential spot at the city gate where he can beg.

Do you realize what that will cost?

They don't make all that many city gates you know, but you'll be getting some working beggar's spot and he has two wives and 7 chilluns.

Plus, it sounds like you need some time to learn how to get your blood sugar back in line. If this is simple TYPE I your solution is in a bottle. If it's more complex, between Type I and Type II, part of it's in a bottle, and part of it is in walking and part of it is in other lifestyle choices!

It is advantageous to the public purse for you to get control of things and avoid blindness!

That's precisely why the gub'mnt puts so much money into preventing blindness ~ of all the problems you can have that's the one that's the most costly to everybody else.

[Norm Lenhart]

Just noticed you are 37...I’m 45. Wife died of cancer at 29 (and I’m not trying to make this into a ‘poor me sob story) but believe me...do what you can to stick around for as long as you can, for her sake if not your own. If that means swallowing your pride, like Mikie Jordan said...just do it.

[joe fonebone]

I agree....I am tired of being called greedy and uncaring when in fact I have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars into this system. The ones that STOLE the money and gave it to the unproductive that do not support the system at all are the greedy ones. But, alas, they have framed the argument so that those who paid in are greedy, and those that are currently paying in are victims of the greedy ones that have already paid in. In this regard, the politicians have won. We, both the “greedy” and the “victim”, are losing. Here is the answer. Your representative and senator ( along with mine ) are professional politicians. They put their butts and getting votes first. Period. This country was designed to be run by citizens, with no political experience, to serve their term and then go home. Until we all see this clearly, and begin to actually do it, the republic is lost.

[MestaMachine]

Pride, my darling Alan, goeth before a fall. Once you fall, you might never get back up.

[CH3CN]

I understand where you are, 100%. I’m still working with a bad case of spondylolathesis, with the L5 causing lots of pressure on both the cauda equina and the sciatic nerves. Besides pain, the nerves cause other, embarassing problems. However, I can’t take disabiity. Spouse is unemployed and my job has the health insurance. Disability health care won’t cover the spouse, so I’ll work until I die. That’s just the way it is.

[mnehring]

There is always something you can contribute. As long as you have your mind, you can produce something that someone may find value in. You have a unique experience, write about it. Talk to your doctor about possibly leading groups of people going through the same thing. Educate people on diabetes. There is always opportunity if you look for it.

"The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me...- Ayn Rand.

[mnehring]

But you’ve been paying into the system for years and years. It’s your money and you deserve it all back.

Isn't that exactly what keeps the cycle going? I've been paying massive amounts into SS and I am under no delusion that 30 some odd years from now when I retire, it will exist. Heck, I see it as completely non-existent now.

[Logic n' Reason]

Cheers mate! Thanks for being among us.

And I've the feeling you're going to be around to see the recovery of the country you love so much.

Hang in...be careful....

Cheers again.

[rightly_dividing]

If you can get the disability, take it and don't look back. You seserve it and have paid in to it. SS and Medicare are big portions of the budget, but cuts in spending can come from elsewhere, like foreign aid and federal subsidies. Many young FReepers come on these threads demanding that self-centered old people give up their SS so that they themselves can have it later. How self centered is that? Handicapped people and old folks can not support themselves no more than a baby can. Some older people like Jon McLame have much income and can do without SS benefits, but most have only SS for income and would lose their homes, medical care, and starve to death in the streets.

Remember, the money was stolen from SS to use for other things, they(the government) owe the SS fund. Let them cut other gov programs to repay what they owe to SS. After doing that, then they should gradually do away with the current program and develop a better savings/investment plan for the people that are now the younger workers.

[Absolutely Nobama]

Thank you. I appreciate that.

[Absolutely Nobama]

God bless you brother! OOORAH!

[Absolutely Nobama]

God bless you brother! OOORAH!

[Absolutely Nobama]

Literally, if I skip a pill here or there.

[Absolutely Nobama]

“Yes, I will.”

I have made it my personal mission to see Obama sent back to Kenya in disgrace.

I have been doing much better. I’ve lost weight and so far, so good on the incessant blood tests that diabetics are tortured with.

Thank you!

[Absolutely Nobama]

I’m with you. Social security has assumed room temperature. It has been replaced by a pile of IOU’s.

[Absolutely Nobama]

Back pain is the worst, no question. How you do it is beyond me.

[Logic n' Reason]

Well...that's at least two of us with the same mission!!

And your weight loss is the exact right way to go...but of course, you knew that!! :)

I'm whit-cha!

[Absolutely Nobama]

OOORAH!