Quote from wartrace:
My neighbor got on disability although I question the decision made by social security. I see him out working on his property all the time. He added on a deck/sun porch, has an acre garden, tends to a flock of goats and chickens and walks three or four miles a day.
He was a truck driver that lost his job in 2009 and had some sort of medical issues. It may be his medical condition caused employers to not want to hire him as a truck driver but he can obviously work something else. Maybe he couldn't get any full time work due to his age and medical condition, I don't know. All this is for his is early retirement.
What disturbs me is the children getting disability checks. Why? My mother worked for social security and the stories she told about the people coming in for their "crazy checks". The scam worked like this- you get your kid diagnosed with a learning disability or some other non-sense and then they get a monthly check (in the story it mentioned 700 dollars). You don't think these single women with eight or ten kids ain't loving this stuff? If you get half the kids diagnosed as "disabled" you can pull in 3500 a month PLUS whatever other welfare benefits you can get.
Quote from wartrace:
My neighbor got on disability although I question the decision made by social security. I see him out working on his property all the time. He added on a deck/sun porch, has an acre garden, tends to a flock of goats and chickens and walks three or four miles a day.
He was a truck driver that lost his job in 2009 and had some sort of medical issues. It may be his medical condition caused employers to not want to hire him as a truck driver but he can obviously work something else. Maybe he couldn't get any full time work due to his age and medical condition, I don't know. All this is for his is early retirement.
What disturbs me is the children getting disability checks. Why? My mother worked for social security and the stories she told about the people coming in for their "crazy checks". The scam worked like this- you get your kid diagnosed with a learning disability or some other non-sense and then they get a monthly check (in the story it mentioned 700 dollars). You don't think these single women with eight or ten kids ain't loving this stuff? If you get half the kids diagnosed as "disabled" you can pull in 3500 a month PLUS whatever other welfare benefits you can get.
Quote from oldtime:
I doubt any of your problems are caused by poor people getting too much free money.
But it's somethimg to bitch about
at least it is something you understand
keeps your mind off the big problems
yes, it's all those poor people pretending to be sick, getting free money, that is driving us hardworking citizens into bankruptcy
eliminate those poor deceiving scoundrels and all our problems will be solved
I knew there was something wrong going on
thank you for informing me it is all because the poor are getting too much money
why didn't I think of that?
eliminate the poor, eliminate the problem
everytime we get a little bit ahead, the poor just suck up all the excess
I've seen those people on Food Stamps
they don't look that hungry to me
if they knew how dysfunctional I really am, they would give it to meQuote from atticus:
Sounds like a guy on disability.