Posted on 10/21/2011 9:38:43 AM PDT by Justaham
A 30-year-old California man who wears diapers and lives as an “adult baby” can keep his $800-a-month Social Security disability checks, the agency ruled.
Stanley Thornton’s infantile lifestyle won him national attention after a National Geographic TV show revealed how he was spoon-fed and clad in baby clothes by his roommate and how he built furniture like oversized high chairs in his Redding, Calif., apartment.
The show prompted Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., to demand a probe of Thornton's Supplemental Security Income checks, the New York Post reported.
But in a letter to Thornton, the agency said, “We recently reviewed the evidence in your Social Security disability claim and find that your disability is continuing.”
A spokesman for Coburn told The Washington Times that the senator did not understand how "a grown man who is able to design and build adult-sized baby furniture is eligible for disability benefits."
"The problem is not with Mr. Thornton, per se, but with the politicians and bureaucrats who have coddled him," the spokesman added. "Disability fraud effectively steals from those who are truly disabled, while weakening the economy for everyone."
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The dam has officially broke.
Rush just covered it.
Looks like we’re also providing plenty of foodstamps for Baby Huey and his caretaker.
No wonder SS is going broke.
Someone please remind me why I work 16 hours a day?
Your f’d up government at work!
So if I sh!t myself a couple times a day, Obama will take care of me?
Goodbye all liberals next November!
Self Respect.
oh my god
the sucker should be locked in a loony bin.
It’s been broke.
I’ve lost track of the number of guys I know of that are recieving disability and either while away their days in the tavern, or better yet, the ones who still work nearly full time, but now doing it under the table for cash.
New swimming pools. Florida vacations for the fam. etc.
Liberal Mobs can protest infront of CEO houses, what would happen if we protested in front of this loser’s house?
I am sure the news media would call us “mean spirited and evil”.
We are so screwed. What a joke we are becoming.
I can’t imagine what the world thinks seeing this photo and knowing that taxpayers work to support this idiocy.
Decadent fools and sheep is probably the first thought...then hysterical laughter. ugh
Our country’s government is now officially insane, even by the accepted standard definition of “insane”.
No, this is different...those folk all got it probably for the ubiquitous “bad back”, old football injuries, or some other hard to pin down ailment, like a severe fear of air and manual labor or bad livers, broken hearts, etc.
This is the first I know of granting an able bodied man disability becuz he’d rather lay around in his footy p.j.’s and poop himself.
It sets a precedent, imo.
So you can keep that guy supplied with diapers and applesauce??
What makes him so much different than any typical Democrat?
^ Winner.
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