[Aurorales]

But I have a sister who is collecting social security disability on a fake problem. Fibromyalgia.

I guess NO ONE is talking about cutting her money or weeding out the fakers.

So my husband spent over 20 in the military is an easy target. No problem that he was promised something different.

Gotta love those repubs. They sure have our backs.

[duckman]

“....on a fake problem. Fibromyalgia”

I don’t really think you mean Fibromyalgia is fake. My late wife had this condition and believe my I watched her suffer. Guess what, she was denied Soc Disability. Go figure.

[Usagi_yo]

Fibromyalgia is real, but like chronic backpain, many freeloaders fake it because it’s easy to fake.

Fibromyalgia is often (if not an exclusive) a psychological symptom of an underlying disorder, whether known or unknown. The disorder could even be another psychological disorder itself.

Fibromyalgia is like the side affect of a ‘statin’ drug, but without taking the drug.

That’s the “Holiday Inn” version.

[driftdiver]

Fibromyalgia is not fake. Its a diagnosis of exclusion. Meaning the doctors don’t know whats wrong so they call it fibromyalgia.

Not to say there aren’t people who are faking disability.

[Old Yeller]

But I have a sister who is collecting social security disability on a fake problem. Fibromyalgia.

I have a former b-i-l who collects SS disability because he pouts and can't keep a job. He does self-employed landscape work on the side and gets paid in cash.

[RFEngineer]

“he was promised”

I’m sympathetic to anyone who thought they were going to get something and it didn’t turn out to be the same deal they thought they were going to get. I’ve been there and done that.

There isn’t enough money to pay everybody everything they were promised by someone in government laying claim to someone elses future productive work.

There IS a superseding promise in our Constitution that limits the governments ability to take other peoples hard work and give it to someone else.

If you are counting on government promises, you’re likely to land somewhat short of those expectations - no matter who you are or why you were promised something by the government.

Another way to put it is that government promises do not amount to anything - especially when government must extract the fruits of anothers labor in confiscatory proportions to fulfill such a promise.

Government doesn’t just betray our military - active and retired, but it betrays those who actually must pay for it all - at great peril to their own retirement and well being.

There aren’t enough of us to pay for everything - and at this point there is a good chance that all those “promises” of some future benefit - military or otherwise - will in fact amount to nothing in the future.