indecentspeech: Re: The New Welfare
Awesome article, very good work by people at NPR, especially the info graphics. This is all to do with fat asses and hoveround culture. There's so many goddamn people with handicapped tags that I see...
View ArticleEphraim Gadsby: Warning: rude language
Whatever happened to pride in being handicapable?
View ArticleEphraim Gadsby: Re: The New Welfare
I feel compelled to relink to the whole Long Island Railroad thing.
View ArticleHidingFromGoro: Re: The New Welfare
Were there more hoverounds/rascal scooters at tea parties, or occupy events?
View ArticleHidingFromGoro: Re: The New Welfare
those folks who have the highest likelihood of meeting disability criteria If you meet the criteria then by definition the government is legally obligated to provide those meager benefits. Whichever...
View Articlethefadd: Re: The New Welfare
John Stossel, closeted hobosexual, I mean, liberal. The only thing more wasteful than the disability rules are the investigations. Two guys named Toby messing up people's trash cans.
View Articleindecentspeech: Re: The New Welfare
Tea Party events. And that's really why this shit pisses me off even more, because many of these people committing these frauds are "git yo' guvnmint hands off of my medicare" types. So if they want to...
View Articleindecentspeech: Re: The New Welfare
$270 billion don't sound meager to me and old white people (people most likely with money) are the majority receiving disability benefits and such. I'm not against them receiving a "hair cut" just like...
View Articleindecentspeech: Re: The New Welfare
Stossel is a douche but like all douches he gets things right at least some of the time.
View Articleport1080: Re: The New Welfare
My father's an "old white guy" receiving disability benefits. He gets about $900 a month. For the last couple of years, due to the Medicare Part D coverage gap, he's also been spending about $2k-3k a...
View Articleport1080: Re: The New Welfare
The average SSDI benefit is about $1100 a month, FYI. So yeah, for most people it's less than they'd make working minimum wage.
View Articleport1080: Re: The New Welfare
If you just look at my father, you wouldn't think he's particularly disabled. He can walk with just a slight limp. Of course, he's only good for about an hour a day of walking, max, and if he pushes...
View Articleindecentspeech: Re: The New Welfare
Of course, he's only good for about an hour a day of walking, max, and if he pushes it that hard he'll be in pain for the next two days and won't be able to move from the couch. His legs also like to...
View Articleindecentspeech: Re: The New Welfare
My understanding is that the main purpose behind these benefits was for supplemental income, not as your total income stream.
View Articleport1080: Re: The New Welfare
Umm, no. They're fucking disability payments. You can't get on SSDI unless you go before a judge and prove you can't work. If you do work beyond a certain amount, they reduce your payments....
View Articleport1080: Re: The New Welfare
The vast majority of the people I have seen lately with these tags are clearly not disabled And you know this how? Like I said - looking at my dad, you wouldn't automatically assume he's disabled. He...
View Articleslavdude: Re: The New Welfare
I thought Monday's story on the Mississippi county where 1 in 4 people is on disability was very interesting. Apparently the placing of people on the disability rolls is common across the South when...
View ArticleEphraim Gadsby: He did blow the lid off that mustache wax scam
Hobosexual is a fantastic coinage.
View Articlethefadd: Re: He did blow the lid off that mustache wax scam
the credit goes to a hobo in my neighborhood -- he uses the term on his sign to draw donations. apparently hobosexualism is quite the emerging pursuit around here
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