Posted on 03/24/2013 8:11:51 AM PDT by Theoria
Good post Carrie. Those charts give new meaning to The South Will Rise Again!
At some point, most people will just throw up their hands and finally realize that the govt does not care about the common citizen, nor is there any interest to change that.
Why is this so “startling”? Its yet another way for lazy people to live off the public teat. The government winks and nods and finds people disabled who aren’t and the Welfare State expands. I have one in my own family. He’s been “disbled” for 10 years yet for the life of me I can’t figure out why he can’t do a job that doesn’t involve heavy manual labor. He doesn’t even try to look for work and has zero shame in spending his life collecting a government check. I get so angry I can’t go to certain family functions where I will have to be around him for a long time.
How about someone starts going after these dirty doctors that seem to think they are some kind of modern-day Robin Hoods handing out sick notes and signing disability forms without any regard for the consequences to everyone concerned. Like they are some kind of gods- so let it be written, so let it be done! I knew a guy (licensed professional) who had a friend who happened to be a doctor. Every time he got sick of work and wanted a vacation, he would somehow hurt his back or knee and get 3 months of disability by just having him sign a form. WE had a name for it, too- the ‘Golden Ticket’. He would come into work waving that thing in the air like a lottery ticket with a big smile on his face and say ‘see you in three months’! then we would have to hear about how he took his family to Disney World while we all suffered and picked up the slack.
Hale County, AL is 59% Black, according to the 2010 census.
I’m sure everybody is surprised to learn that a heavily Black county is also into disability scams bigtime.
I absolutely fear that day and like you, sometimes I just want the d4mned system to collapse already. But then the Lib politicians will go manic and promote Lib solutions via government, ad nauseum. There will be more panic coming from Wash-DC than from main street. See tagline.
Uuuuuuh ... It's a NPR story. You even consider that there may be a slight skew to it?
Welcome to fascism!
Bread and circus by everyone!
When business and government get in bed together, everybody else gets screwed!
NAZI style socialism/fascism has never worked out for any country that has tried it. Just ask Germany how that worked out for them. The only reason they still exist is through our good graces.
Work is becoming “cruel and inhumane punishment” much like water-boarding. How can a kind and civilized society expect folks with an aversion to earning their own way to tie up so much of their time and effort at work?
my sister-in-law works for a food bank and sees lots of people coming in for help. She is required to help them or show them where they can get help.
She says lots of them are poor and down to their last meal. Others have full grown childern living with them who “can’t” work because of some so-called disability (bi-polar, high blood pressure, headaches, back aches) all sots of excuses for not getting a job. She hates these frauds but can do nothing about it.
Excellent article. Bump!
For those who have not been watching, disability is the new unemployment benefit.
As a volunteer triage interviewer at a local food/clothing bank, I see this all the time. As soon as the unemployment benefits get close to running out, the taker contacts a disability lawyer about getting their lifetime suck on the government teat.
Much has been made of the explosion in food stamps. Not much has been said about the corresponding explosion in disability checks. Food stamps are hard, you must recertify every six months. Disability is easy, once you qualify you’re good for life.
Massive, massive fraud. And we pay through the nose for it. Lots of fraud in food stamps too, but that’s another topic.
Another quick thought: notice the rapid increase in back pain as a reason for disability? That’s because back pain cannot be disproved. And the disability lawyers know that.
Rise in disability fraud is more like it.
Agree you may be to young to remember but there was a TV program called Queen for a day,the best sob story won by the applaud-o-neter.
I tried after I broke my spine, I didn’t work while I raised my children just started back and Obama’s administration caused me to lose my job. Not enough current years working to qualify. need 5 consecutive laid off after 3.5 years. I am forced to work. my husband is disabled nervous breakdown, and still waiting to be qualified, his employment fired him for poor work performance after returning from disability leave. shit happens. I wish I could qualify and work part time cause no one wants to hire someone over 50.
There is a simple solution to turn this around. If you are UNFIT TO WORK, you are UNFIT TO DRIVE. Go on disability and have your drivers license pulled. Get caught driving and automatically lose your benefits.
If you are in such pain that you cannot work, we don’t want you behind the wheel of a car. If your ADD or ADHD medicine keeps you from working, then you are also incapable of operating a vehicle. How many of these scammers would be willing to give up their freedom to drive for a check?
Getting them off the roads would make commuting for people going to work easier. It would lessen the wear and tear on roads being paid for by hard working taxpayers. Safer roads and cleaner air are benefits along with limiting drug dealing to only the neighbourhoods they could walk to. Those getting a welfare check should also be precluded from driving. Driving is a privilege, not a right.
This despite massive investment in reducing back injuries, more automated equipment, and OSHA regulations breathing down business' necks.
One area I would approve of increased funding would be in a benefits fraud division that actually got results,
The better answer is to get rid of government disability entirely. When charity was disbursed by the local church or civic organization, it was VERY hard to fake an injury because these were people who saw the "victim" frequently.
good post
the administration is buying votes. everybody “needs” a government check. Even children with learning disabilities can now get a government check. It’s disgusting and makes me hopeless.
SSDI is the hot scam right now. Have you “twisted your back”? Are your “eyes going”? Got “carpal tunnel syndrome”? Are your kids “crazy”? Have you become “dependent” on painkillers and alcohol? “Depressed”? Turn on some daytime TV and start writing down the phone numbers of all the sleazy lawyers who will be delighted to help you jump on the SSDI gravy train.
I recommend EVERYBODY look into this. Get back some of those tax dollars you dumped down the government toilet your whole working life before the moochers, bums, deadbeats, and parasites who comprise the Democrat party base gobble it all up.
Get some better shoes and don’t you get to relax for two weeks over Christmas, one or two weeks during spring break, all summer, 52 weekends a year and various and sundry teacher break days? Are you exercising? Dont’ you get the parking places close to the building while the students who are paying your salary and benes park far away? Don’t you get off about 3:45?
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