Disability numbers on the rise (The new welfare office Social Security)

dailymail.com ^ | September 7, 2010 | Jared Hunt

[IbJensen]

bttt

[meanie monster]

I know someone right now who gets disability and even though he does have some health issues it doesn’t stop him from being a crack head and that is where his money goes. Makes me sooooo mad.

[KoRn]

I was doing some work in a doctor’s office recently, and one of their nurses was telling me about how they see LOTS of patients that show up trying to get the doctor to help them get on SS Disability. The doctor wouldn’t go along with it, and the nurse said that the patient left angry, saying they would find a doctor that WOULD. It’s the new ‘American Dream’ around here. Get on disability, get the ‘food stamp’ card, free rent, and you’re set for life. I’m sure this is going on everywhere.

My wife has a relative that is pretty much like that. We calculated that the leach gets around $30,000 per year in government handouts, between her and her three bastard children.

We are so screwed.....

[Myrddin]

The skilled scammers get on disability with BS like "authority aversion". The rest of us pay for it. It rubs me the wrong way to see of 400+ lb "human" ooze out of a car in a handicapped parking place, then wallow into an "all you can eat" establishment. Where is the personal responsibility?

[org.whodat]

Keep those fat checks rolling in!!!

[Gabrial]

“I know someone right now who gets disability and even though he does have some health issues it doesn’t stop him from being a crack head and that is where his money goes. Makes me sooooo mad.”

I have a neighbor who gets disability and for the life of me there is absolutely nothing wrong with her that I can tell. It turns out she hired a lawyer and expert witnesses and sued to prove she had fibromyalgia. She is one of the most active people I know and has never complained about any pain to me. I think she is simply gaming the system.

[Chickensoup]

I always heard of disability refered to as “white man’s welfare.”

[org.whodat]

Fat girl down the street, got knocked up her junior year in school by a druggie, that has now spent about 12 years in jail during his marriage, oldest kid is about fourteen, but she has three, never worked a day in her life , husband is still a pot head and she applies for disability.

[yarddog]

This is one area in which I think there is some misinformation. When I first graduated from college, I worked for a year as a claims rep for Social Security.

Social Security disability is one of the hardest to qualify for of any. I think something like 90 percent are turned down initially and not all that many qualify eventually.

[RockinRight]

I work in a bank.

I can almost pick out the fake-disabled ones. What’s funny is the TRULY disabled seem to still work a job, somewhere, unless they’re over 60 or so and mostly retired anyway.

What I’m talking about are the 30-somethings (and younger) who, aside from being kinda stupid, don’t seem to have anything wrong with them. Sure, people can have spinal injuries, mental problems, or fatigue issues that are far greater than one can see with the eye, etc. The ones I’m talking about though, they all have the same personality - dumb, history of drugs, live in trailer parks (no offense to others in trailer parks), not particularly attractive, etc.

I believe the law states that as long as you’re medically unable to do your chosen profession, you’re “disabled.”

So if you were a construction worker, and lost a leg, you can’t work in the field anymore, but that doesn’t mean you can’t sit at a desk as an analyst, or design something on a computer, or even drive a modified vehicle, or whatever.

Disability pays what, $1600 a month? You can’t tell me that most of these people can’t find SOMETHING they can do, even part-time, telework, whatever, that can pay them that much.

[RockinRight]

FWIW fibromyalgia is a real disorder, but crap like that is one reason people tend to believe it’s not.

[BenKenobi]

And many of us with a disability cannot and will not qualify because of the leeches. They need to reform the rolls, and ‘obesity’ shouldn’t be a disability.

If I could fix myself, you should bet that I would, but I don’t have an option there. I have to deal with it.

[BenKenobi]

“What’s funny is the TRULY disabled seem to still work a job, somewhere, unless they’re over 60 or so and mostly retired anyway.”

We want to contribute and anyone who gives us a blasted chance will be rewarded. The best thing for truly disabled folks is to find them a job where the talents they do have can be put to use.

Businesses benefit and people with disabilities benefit. Instead we all end up paying 1200 a month to these leeches who scam the system.

[Gabrial]

“This is one area in which I think there is some misinformation. When I first graduated from college, I worked for a year as a claims rep for Social Security.
Social Security disability is one of the hardest to qualify for of any. I think something like 90 percent are turned down initially and not all that many qualify eventually.”

I don't have much experience with this, but it seems there is a whole industry out there that helps people game the system.

http://www.disabilitysecrets.com/how-do-you-qualify-medically-for-disability.html

[Gabrial]

“This is one area in which I think there is some misinformation. When I first graduated from college, I worked for a year as a claims rep for Social Security.
Social Security disability is one of the hardest to qualify for of any. I think something like 90 percent are turned down initially and not all that many qualify eventually.”

I don't have much experience with this, but it seems there is a whole industry out there that helps people game the system.

http://www.disabilitysecrets.com/how-do-you-qualify-medically-for-disability.html

[DrC]

“I always heard of disability refered to as “white man’s welfare.”

That may be, but wait until being a minority is deemed a disability in this “racist” country of ours. With 40+% of black teens unemployed, that’s a rather size “target population” for the Dems to get on the permanent dole.

[Gabrial]

“The skilled scammers get on disability with BS like “authority aversion”. The rest of us pay for it. It rubs me the wrong way to see of 400+ lb “human” ooze out of a car in a handicapped parking place, then wallow into an “all you can eat” establishment. Where is the personal responsibility?”

I was going to the store yesterday and a car with a handicap tag zooms into a handicapped spot and the sole occupant jumps out and literally runs into the store almost knocking me down in the process!

What the heck is up with that?

[bareford101]

when it became a “disability” to be fat/lazy, it became welfare, even if it comes from social security... I see people everyday with handicapped car signs because they are downright Fat,Fat, Fat and can’t walk far because of it.

[KoRn]

It’s all about general laziness/desire.

Unless someone has just a terrible disability where they are literally bedridden, even folks who are ‘disabled’ can find SOMETHING to do, if they REALLY want to. It’s all about desire.

On the other hand, you have your lazy 20/30 somethings(as you mentioned) that don’t WANT to work. They WANT to be disabled, and that’s what they will be, come hell or high water. SS Disability is the ticket to ‘freedom’ in their worthless minds. Then they line up the rest of the government handouts. I’m SURE many of them also do a bit of work for cash under the table in order to buy drugs and or playing around/party money.

All of it enabled by politicians who take advantage of the fact that a large number of their constituents can vote themselves access to our Treasury, and by extension, OUR wallets.

I seriously believe that if people don’t pay federal taxes, they shouldn’t be allowed to vote in federal elections! It would take a Constitutional amendment for such a thing to come to pass, and any politician ballsy enough to make such a suggestion would be demonized and practically run off the planet.