Posted on 08/29/2009 8:26:43 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
TAMPA — Todd Cohen was diagnosed with bone cancer in 1994 when he was 19. The cancer led to the amputation of his right leg.
Since then, Cohen has learned to walk with a prosthesis. He got an education, but he has never held a steady job.
He's gotten by with Medicaid and monthly Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, checks that have ranged from $271 to $650.
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I have a brother who is very smart and friendly. He is also a double-amputee (both legs). He gets government assistance (has for many years). I think it is wrong to keep extending these benefits to him. He needs to get a job.
Actually the guy is a art degree graduate of a local college, and has become what all those that take such course aspire to be......
A long suffering starving artist!
From the other parts of the story, I would suggest that he is suffering from pains possibly caused by MRSA, and the drugs he is taking to reduce the pain are not helping him in his quest to seek employment.
In life there are no easy solutions, those solutions become even more scarce when you only turn to the government to provide for you.
My brother has change the timing belt on his minivan standing up in his wheelchair. He can get around. He also built a raised patio deck, by himself, at the house he is living in, to make it easy for him to get in and out of his minivan.
What a blessed son.
Our soldiers have limbs blown off defending our freedom’s and peace, so we can continue to sleep peaceful in our beds at night. And THEY GO BACK TO WORK. Run races and marathons. So STFU you frckn cry baby mooch.
No you pnh, the mooch in the article.
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I had 2 spinal surgeries in the last 2 years. I am unemployed, going to school for vocational rehab because I qualified and am down to my last 6 months of unemployment compensation insurance payments to me.
IF I try to lift something heavy for work, I am guaranteed that I will speed up the final injury that will send me back for my 3rd surgery, a fusion, which they say I dont need now. I am legally limited to 35 pounds lifting, 75 pounds pushing or pulling. I am refused any repetitive lifting.
This guy with his leg: What are his limits? To read that a one legged man is roofing; it is clear he did not lose his leg at work for he is working to his known limits, not his legal limits.
I can collect disability in a lump sum and take my chances on injuries, but I also lose any future coverage for surgery that I was assured I would need at a later, unknown, date.
And, something else, not everyone works well in an office, that is an easy answer to just blurt out, but try it! The transition from mechanic to Engineer was tough, so tough I decided to go back to being a mechanic again...and that's when I got hurt!
So, anyways, I am going to Electrical Engineering this time, the combination of Mechanical Engineerng and Electrical Engineering, AS degrees, should make me more employable. Lots of experience, lots of training, been around the block a few times...too bad there aint no jobs in Connecticut!
Employable is one thing; finding a job is another. :-( (and though to be honest, your statement isn't really necessarily true...what one might not see in a day of posting is that the person is severely narcoleptic, for example, but those are exceptions).
Making him try to find work is long overdue. If the govt had been more of that mindset for decades, we'd be in better financial shape.
I have a friend who got her degree and training in assisting disabled people with finding jobs, etc., but then couldn't get a job doing it. Even though she is a whiz with public transportation, the standard job requirements always said, "must have drivers license," which her disability prevented! She now has set up as a professional psychic.
Another disabled friend of mine couldn't find any job she could do online, so she has started a business doing "distance therapy" with Reiki and other modalities. People send her money via PayPal and she spends an hour sending them healing energy.
And the worst part is that too many of our soldiers who are injured in such a manner get shafted by GOVERNMENT health care.
Everyone thought that was going to be the end of her softball playing, instead, she was back this year and played one handed. She has also taken up soccer and is phenomenal at it. Not bad for a 12 year old girl.
There are millions of Americans out of work...Your lazy x-girlfriend is probably helping someone out by staying out of the job market.
You going to hire someone like this, and accommodate their needs and many times their heavy luggage, including potential law suits against their employer for not accommodating them in an adequate manner? How about insurance? Who's going to pay if this guys cancer comes back?
I have a friend who has cerebral palsy from birth. She is the administrator of hospital coding for insurance companies. She learned to walk by scooting across the floor on her butt when she was a baby. She learned to speak by loving parents and friends. She attended college and worked harder than anyone I have ever known. She is the sweetest, most caring person who sees the best in everyone. She is a fantastic worker and would never, ever think of asking the government for a cent.
If this loser has any brains, ambition or talent at all, he could learn to write programs for, say, the iPhone, and sell his work at the Apple AppStore. Mobility is not required for that -- aside from the will to get up off his lazy parasitic butt, and figure out a way to make himself useful.
He gets zero sympathy from me.
This person is not my problem.
just WOW - little hero
read post 20
Wow... your son is pretty cool.
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