Until I read this article, I didn’t know Dwight Eisenhower was the President when the Social Security Disablity Program was created. Like Eisenhower, I believe the truly disabled should be given help getting back on their feet. He described the program goal clearly - “to help rehabilitate the disabled so that they may return to useful employment.”
Well guess what happened? It became another clusterfuck entitlement program. Only 6% of all the people that go into the SSDI program EVER go back to work. I do believe our medical treatments have improved since the 1950s. You would think the majority of people who have become disabled would be able to go back to some sort of work at some point. But NOOOOO. The number of people in this program has surged by 16% in just the last three years. If you are obese, depressed, or have a sore back – you are disabled in the America of Obama. And once you punch your ticket into the SSDI program you get Medicare, SNAP, and an Obama phone.
There are 10.8 million people in the SSDI program costing you over $200 billion per year when you add up the additional program costs. There is no doubt in my mind that at least half of these people can and should work. The Free Shit Army waddles onward.
Yes America, Your Fellow Citizens DO Abuse Federal Aid Programs
“Governor Romney—and any candidate who wants to move us back toward a balanced budget—shouldn’t shy away from calling for the reform of such ill-conceived aid programs.
The media pounced on Governor Romney for implying that the nearly half of Americans who depend on government assistance enjoy being free riders. More than just political poison, such a presumption ignores how devastating the jobs crisis has been for so many Americans who yearn to be productive, independent, successful contributors to society.
Yet Americans shouldn’t make the mistake of ignoring how aid programs can be abused. Sadly, a not-insignificant portion of those receiving benefits do exploit assistance programs. This more than just wastes taxpayer dollars and leaves less for those who truly need it; perhaps most importantly, it enables a dependency that might be temporarily attractive, but limits someone’s life prospects and chances for long-term fulfillment.
Governor Romney—and any candidate who wants to move us back toward a balanced budget—shouldn’t shy away from calling for the reform of such ill-conceived aid programs.
Social Security’s disability insurance program would be the place to start. The number of Americans receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) payments—which average $1,111 per month for disabled workers—has increased substantially in recent years, from 9.3 million in January 2009 to 10.8 million Americans today. As the number of enrollees has climbed, so has SSDI spending. In 2011, payments through SSDI totaled nearly $129 billion.
That’s a lot of money, even by Washington’s standards. For some perspective, the federal Department of Transportation spent far less ($77 billion), and the entire Department of Labor used roughly the same budget ($132 billion). Yet SSDI’s official price tag dramatically understates the real costs associated with SSDI determinations, since those who qualify for disability payments automatically become eligible for Medicare after two years. According to Dr. Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute (the former principal deputy commission of the Social Security Administration (SSA)) Medicare’s annual expenditures on SSDI beneficiaries now exceed $70 billion.
Americans overwhelmingly support the idea of a safety net, and might not object to even SSDI’s large bill if those payments all went to those truly unable to work because of disability. Yet a recently released report by Senator Tom Coburn, the ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, suggests that’s not the case. His committee examined 300 cases of Americans who were awarded Social Security disability benefits and determined that more than one quarter received benefits based on “insufficient, contradictory, or incomplete evidence.”
Those tempted to dismiss the report of a leading conservative Senator known for being unforgiving of government waste should note that the SSA also concluded in an internal review that 22 percent of disability awards made by Administrative Law Judges had errors and used incomplete evidence.
Eliminating all fraud within programs like SSDI may be impossible, and reasonable people can disagree about when a case reaches the threshold of complete disability. Yet it is clear that SSDI’s problems go beyond different shades of grey. Senator Coburn’s report notes that in three years, one judge in Oklahoma City decided 5,400 cases, approving more than 90 percent of them, and granted what will amount to more than $1.6 billion in lifetime federal benefits.
The sloppy process used to determine Social Security disability eligibility should alarm taxpayers given that the lifetime cost of each award averages $300,000. The life-time costs are so high because once on, few leave the program’s rolls. More than half of those matriculating from SSDI in 2011 left because they had reached full retirement age, and therefore transferred onto traditional Social Security benefits. Just 3.6 percent left because of medical improvement, and 6.1 percent returned to work.
This last finding—that few ever return to work—is particularly concerning. When the disability program was launched in 1956, President Eisenhower described its purpose as “to help rehabilitate the disabled so that they may return to useful employment,” as well as to “advance the economic security of the American people.” Yet SSDI falls sorely short on that first measure. Even the progressive think tank, Center for American Progress, criticized SSDI for providing “strong incentives to applicants and beneficiaries to remain permanently out of the workforce.”
Most Americans want more than to live on government’s dime. Most want good jobs so they can support themselves and start climbing the economic ladder. Safety net programs like SSDI should be reviewed and reformed so that they aid in that process, providing support for those truly in need, while protecting the interests of taxpayers and encouraging independence.
Carrie Lukas is the managing director of the Independent Women’s Forum.
bluestem says:
“…..so that they may return to useful employment.” It’s like any other gov’t. idea, starts out looking real good on paper, but once the program get “massaged” it turns into a real shitter. John
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5th October 2012 at 11:28 am
SSS says:
Ike was an excellent president, but he made mistakes. SSDI was one of them.
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5th October 2012 at 11:31 am
Stucky says:
I am very embarrassed to say this, but what the hell, my life is pretty much already an open book here. I am embarrassed because I did NOT raise my son to be this way.
He gets about $750/month SSDI, and $250 month SNAP. How? He was diagnosed about two years ago as paranoid schizophrenic by a doctor in the state of Washington. He easily qualified for SSDI. But that diagnosis has long been discredited by both psychologists and psychiatrists in three different hospitals in Michigan. Does he still have mental/emotional issues? Yes. Is he TRULY disabled? No. Will he continue to get about $1,000/mo. from the government for as long as he wants? Yes. The system itself is what’s truly demented.
My other son is a hard-working responsible father of three who doesn’t accept free shit, even from me. So, I didn’t totally fuck up.
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5th October 2012 at 11:48 am
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Stuck
Based on everything you’ve posted about your son, I think he qualifies as disabled. It’s the people who seek out lawyers for a way to get into this program for fake problems that are the issue.
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5th October 2012 at 11:55 am
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SSDI is a flawed system, and I really see no way to fix it. It’s impossible to repeal it now, and it’s just one more reason why our economic system is going to implode.
The currency debasement going on will make the payments so inadequate within the next 15 years or so that anybody depending on it will probably starve, anyway.
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justanotherscrewedusamerican says:
first of all, i wish the author and other msm would say “former-governor” rather than “governor”, he no longer holds office. when i tried in the ’90′s to get ssdi so i could get my lungs (i have asthma, was born with it) back in order so i could go back to work when i got better, i was told “NO”. i wouldn’t try now to save my own life, because i am not a leech. when i was young and just married with a newborn my hubby lost his job and we went to welfare for “a hand up, not a hand-out!” they treated me and my hubby like we were trash or criminals or something and didn’t want to give it to us, but had no choice by their own rules. after we both had jobs and didn’t need welfare anymore, they refused to let us give it up! i did anyway and took all their stuff back to them a got a receipt so they could charge me for it later. anyway, when you don’t want or need it they want to hang you with it, when you need it badly they don’t want to give it too you. personally i say screw them and it. i would rather live in a box and dumpster dive to exist than to take one dollar from “the system”.
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5th October 2012 at 12:15 pm
justanotherscrewedusamerican says:
correction, i meant so they could NOT charge me for it later.
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5th October 2012 at 12:17 pm
Jimi d says:
In 1990, after the RTC (Resolution Trust Corporation) called in all of my loans and mortages as they ‘rescued’ my local savings & loan (forcing me into a chapter 7 bankruptcy) I lost everything my wife and I worked 10 years in building – including my home. As painful as it was I applied for AFDC – this program ‘saved my ass’ ! I was financially destitute and needed to house and feed my family. I was off of AFDC in less than 9 months.
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5th October 2012 at 12:24 pm
harry p. says:
SSDI had noble intentions but where it fails is that it requires one group of people to “help” others until they can return to useful employment.
No lasting good can come from the use of coercion. It perverts every good intention because it crushes choice and freedom. You can’t achieve good thru the use of evil.
I am know I am being ideological but hey, it’s “Filosofical Friday”
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5th October 2012 at 12:43 pm
Oscar Mannheim says:
I consider myself an old-school gentleman (stand when ladies enter the room, open doors, etc), but when I encountered my first fatty-cart woman in a large supermarket some fifteen years ago, she told me to get out of her way in the not-all-that-narrow aisle. My blood pressure went ballistic and I said, and I quote: “Listen you fat fu*!, I’m going to cow-tip you and you won’t be able to get up, you tub of shit, and while you’re wallowing on the floor I’m going to go get some charcoal lighter and come back to roast marshmallows while you get crispy!” She began a wheezy “OOO! OOO!” sort of screeching and I winked at her and walked away. I have no regrets, none. Disability my ass. Self-indulgent slobs get no sympathy from me. I wish they didn’t get it from anyone, never mind a meal ticket on the taxpayer’s dime.
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5th October 2012 at 1:26 pm
ron says:
I think ssdi is a good idea.Helping people is good.
I was explaining to my daughter about the military bases and how after a war we stay in places,forever.I pointed out that the war is over with Germany and Japan and yet we still have bases there at what cost per year?So i dont feel bad about food stamp or ssdi spending.I cant help it you have a bunch of thieven lazy fcks on the east coast.
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5th October 2012 at 1:42 pm
harry p. says:
oscar mannheim,
watch the latest episode of southpark on comedycentral.com.
It’s called “raising the bar”, from reading your comment you might like this episode, it involves people being in those fatty scooters as well as “honey boo boo”
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5th October 2012 at 2:00 pm
Stucky says:
Oscar
That’s a funny story. Did you really say all that? Funny shit, there.
I have a slightly funny story that happened just yesterday.
I went to Barnes&Noble yesterday. I went to read (free!!) sports mags about the upcoming college basketball season …. cuz Indiana University is picked to win it all. Yeah, baby!! After reading them I went to the Info Desk. My younger son recommended a book, “Fruit Hunters”, so I was hoping they’d have it in stock. The guy helping me looked kinda faggety … you know the look. Anyway, this is how the conversation went;
Me: “Could you check if you have the book “Fruit Hunters” in stock?
Him: No response. Just a quizzical look.
Me: “I’m sorry. Perhaps you didn’t hear me. It’s called “Fruit Hunters”, and I don’t know the author.”
Him: “Oh, OK. I just never heard of it.”
Me: “No problem.” (Now, I’m trying to be funny.) “It’s about the food, not the people.”
Him: “I take offense at that statement!!”. (In a somewhat raised voice.)
Me: “That’s OK. Look it up anyway.”
Him: “I said I take offense at that statement!!!”. (This time he said it loud enough to cause several nearby customers to stop and look.)
Me: In a stern but not too loud voice. “Look. I don’t really give a fuck what offends you. I was just trying to be a little funny. If you yell at me again I will shove you face into the computer screen. Now either look up the goddamn book, or get your manager.”
So, he gets on the phone and within 30 seconds the store manager is there. I explain the situation exactly as happened, including my profane response. The manager apologizes to me, and then offers me an immediate 25% manager’s discount on the book!! Don’t know what happened with the hypersensitive homo guy. Maybe I’ll go back tonight and if he’s there ask him if they have “Queer Eye For The Straight Guy”.
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5th October 2012 at 2:07 pm
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Stuck
You’re a pip.
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5th October 2012 at 2:12 pm
SSS says:
“I think ssdi is a good idea. Helping people is good.
I was explaining to my daughter about the military bases and how after a war we stay in places,forever.I pointed out that the war is over with Germany and Japan and yet we still have bases there at what cost per year?”
—-ron
Well, you’re half right, namely your comments about closing all military bases in Germany and Japan. And might I add, Great Britain, Turkey and many countries in the Middle East, South Korea, and Kosovo, plus most of the bases in Italy, Spain, and Easter Europe. All overkill to the Nth degree.
Programs like SSDI should be left to the states. If the states can afford SSDI-like programs and they’re working, fine. If not, then shut ‘em down or cut them back, which is much easier to do at the state level, where balanced budgets are a reality.
Every one of these federal “help the people” programs spirals out of control on a cost basis. And none of them are killed or cut back because of the lack of political will and common sense in Washington. Not one. And that’s why I said Ike made a mistake when he signed the SSDI bill.
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5th October 2012 at 2:13 pm
AWD says:
No, SSDI isn’t a plan anyone created, except the progressive liberal democrats to gain more voters. And scumbag shithead fucking lawyers who are making tens of billions getting POS lazy assholes on disability. This program has to be completely eliminated, period. Once on SSDI, people are on for life, forever, until they die. Many do die, because they’re morbidly obese, drug addicts, alcoholics, and generally scum of the earth. I see them every single day. 99% aren’t disabled, I shit you not. The irony: the ones that are actually disabled want to work, and many of them do. Unless you don’t have arms or legs, you aren’t disabled. Argh, don’t get me started. These lazy fucks are all driving new cars, living the high life, and everyone’s alive to wait on their lazy POS asses 24/7. Please, shoot me now.
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5th October 2012 at 2:37 pm
Stucky says:
“These lazy fucks are all driving new cars, living the high life, ….” —– AWD
How is that even possible? I’m not saying some of these lazyfuks don’t have new cars. They obviously do. But I don’t see how it’s possible to live the high life off SSDI.
The MAXIMUM SSDI amount is $2,116. Not shabby. But certainly not even close to being able to buy new cars, new homes, the high life, ..etc.
http://sci.washington.edu/info/forums/reports/ssdi&ssi.asp
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PS; I am not trying to start a pissing match. OK? Just trying to understand you reasoning.
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5th October 2012 at 2:47 pm
AWD says:
Fighting the urge to post pictures of fat people, fighting it, fighting it,
maybe the fat fucks on SSDI will get cancer…
“At my work I recently learned that one of our employees was going out on full disability for her obesity. Now this employee already had a designated parking space close to the building, a modified schedule (more breaks, allowed to sit at her job, and longer lunch), she had a handicapped placard for her car from the DMV, and she had qualified for rent assistance due to her having to work fewer hours.
I don’t think a person should get disability benefits for being obese if the only reason they are obese is their poor food choices and lack of exercise. People can be disabled and due to that they put on weight so that sucks and I think they should have their disability benefits due to the original disability.
But this lady is now getting state aid to sit around and do nothing and eat all day long while my taxes pay for it. Isn’t this just feeding the reason why she is on disability in the first place?”
Disability recipient voting for Obama, her lord and savior
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5th October 2012 at 2:58 pm
Oscar Mannheim says:
Harry: Thanks, I’ll give South Park a shot. As for HBB, well, I’m trying hard to avoid psychotic-episode-causing stimuli.
Stuck: Yes, I actually said that, surprising myself, to be honest. But the sneering look on that pasty, flabby face just touched the wrong button. And when I left, I had a spring in my step, a smirk on my face and the imaginary scent of flaccid flesh aflame tickling my nostrils. Good work with the clerk!
I think helping peeple is good too, because peeple who kneed peeple are the luckiest peeple in the whirled! I’m afraid I’m turning into a grumpy old man, but upon reflection, I believe I was a grumpy young man as well, once upon a time.
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5th October 2012 at 2:59 pm
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Stuck:
They get anywhere from $30,000 to $40,000 in “back wages” once they’re approved. They get free housing, free food, free cell phone, free cash, free healthcare and meds. Around here, the cost of living is low. I know a guy, weighs 450 lbs, been on disability for more than 10 years, gets a brand new pick-up truck every year.
Over 220,000 disability recipients were caught going to 4 or more doctors per month, getting oxycontin or lortabs from each doctor (on their Medicare), and selling their meds. The government knows they are doing it and does nothing. Those are just the ones they caught. That’s an extra $3000 per month or more. It’s a big scam, a huge scam. Many, many are on disability and work. I’ve known SSDI recipients who work on cars, put up fences, construction, even roofers. They can put on a fucking roof, but are disabled?
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5th October 2012 at 3:05 pm
Stucky says:
AWD
$30-$40k inn back wages?? Holy fuck. I had no idea about that … or the other way they scam. It’s just beyond me. The “creativity” of these folks is amazing.
Thanks for the answer.
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5th October 2012 at 3:09 pm
Administrator says:
I’m glad I don’t use the metric system.
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5th October 2012 at 3:19 pm
AWD says:
Admin
Based on your picture, your BMI is 45 or more
Stuck
Great story about the book store. Glad you didn’t back down, nice.
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5th October 2012 at 3:27 pm
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AWD
Blow Me
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5th October 2012 at 3:32 pm
Stucky says:
Admin
AWD is giving you a compliment. BMI = Blow Me Index …. the number of times in one week you tell someone, “Blow Me”.
Apparently, you’re at 45 for the week. Keep up the good work!
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5th October 2012 at 3:40 pm
AWD says:
BMI: Blow me index
That’s about the response I get 99.99% of the time when I tell someone their weight. Groan.
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5th October 2012 at 3:47 pm
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AWD – Bedside manner of a prick
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5th October 2012 at 3:53 pm
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5th October 2012 at 4:01 pm
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AWD preparing for a rectal exam of an obese Boomer
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5th October 2012 at 4:22 pm
AWD says:
When I grow up I wanna weigh 400lbs and get on disability.
Mom and dad were on Welfare, then got on disability. They take a cruise every year, make piles of money selling their medicine, have this nice section 8 house at the beach, go to the ER every time they have a hang-nail, and they weigh 400lbs each. They’re my role models.
AWD advising high BMI patients not to commit suicide
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5th October 2012 at 4:50 pm
Stucky says:
There is a human body preservation technique called Plastination.
The essence of the process is the replacement of water and fatty material in the cells of the body first by acetone and then by plastics.
I have been to the show in NYC, twice. Check out the link to see if will be in your neighborhood. If so, ….. GO!! No one is EVER disappointed.
http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/
Anyway … here is one of the displays. A formerly live human being ….. a fat woman. (Pictures don’t do it justice.)
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5th October 2012 at 5:23 pm
Stucky says:
Body scan.
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5th October 2012 at 5:25 pm
Stucky says:
This one was amazing in real life. The man is actually holding his own skin.
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This one was, for me, BY FAR, the coolest exhibit. It is a torso with all organs, bones, etc. removed … and only the circulatory system showing. It took over a full year to do.
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5th October 2012 at 5:30 pm
AWD says:
Nice Stucky, and right at dinner time.
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5th October 2012 at 5:32 pm
SSS says:
Stucky
You have, yet again, posted a picture of a cock and balls. When is this going to stop? The older members and women of this site cannot allow you to post actual pictures of cocks and balls. More demerits. You get enough red marks, and you’re going to be punished. I still have friend in high places, drones, you know, that kind of stuff. You’d better watch it pal.
SSS
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5th October 2012 at 5:34 pm
SSS says:
Ha. My BMI is precisely 23. And I converted my weight and height to metric. Give me your weight in pounds and height in inches, Admin. I’ll do the math.
Your official TBP calculator (damn, I have a lot of official titles on this site; I’m the King of Titles),
SSS
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5th October 2012 at 5:34 pm
SSS says:
Knock off the doppel shit, Stuck.
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5th October 2012 at 5:37 pm
Stucky says:
“Nice Stucky, and right at dinner time.” —- AWD
You sure you’re a doctor? Somewhere around a BILLION people have seen this exhibit. Why? Cuz it’s really way way fuckin’ awesome.
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@sss
I hope you’re kidding. One never knows. Well, spy-boy, I have one last exhibit pic just for you … nipples!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And, yes, the baby in the womb is real. Well … was real.
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5th October 2012 at 5:43 pm
Stucky says:
Next time you boys go down on some pussay … keep this pic in mind.
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5th October 2012 at 5:47 pm
Eddie says:
Stucky
I saw the Body World exhibit in Houston a few years ago. I agree that the circulatory system dissections were the most amazing.
(The skinned guy riding the skinned horse was pretty good too.)
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5th October 2012 at 5:49 pm
AWD says:
Originates from the Japanese, who perfected the technique. Goes to show what a bunch of sick fucks the Japanese are.
“You know you’re a fat slob when” you get banned from a buffet restaurant.
“Gobi restaurant in Brighton, England offers all-you-can-eat Mongolian Barbecue for just £12 (or about $19). Well, unless your name is either George Dalmon or Andy Miles. Why? Because George and Andy have been going there for years, eating five plates a sitting. The owner finally had enough and banned them for life. What’s so wrong with a couple of fat dudes being friends and stuffing their faces?”
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5th October 2012 at 7:20 pm
Moto says:
Amazed at how this discussion deteriorated. I have worked with clients on disability. What a miserable existence. They weren’t fat either. I’ll try another article. This used to be an interesting website.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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5th October 2012 at 7:55 pm
Llpoh says:
Moto on off then.
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5th October 2012 at 8:28 pm
Administrator says:
48 inches – 350 lbs
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5th October 2012 at 8:50 pm
Novista says:
SSS, the King of Titlies
Moto, on behalf of the STMs, I apologize that the discourse doesn’t meet your exacting standards. Meanwhile, you added nothing to the discussion. I find it sad that those who game the system are doing a disservice to those with real disabilities.
When the various frauds of America bring the system down, no one will get anything.
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5th October 2012 at 8:52 pm
AWD says:
“This used to be an interesting website.”
When was that exactly?
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5th October 2012 at 8:54 pm
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Moto
Blow me.
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5th October 2012 at 8:56 pm
AWD says:
Moto: “I have worked with clients on disability.”
Government employee no doubt. Tries to figure out how to give SSDI recipients more free shit. Gets $165k per year salary. Retires at 50, or gets on disability himself for “post-traumatic stress disorder” for having to deal with all the SSDI scammers, frauds, and miscreants.
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5th October 2012 at 9:04 pm
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5th October 2012 at 9:09 pm
sangell says:
A very easy way to reduce SSDI would be to hire investigators to tail the so called disabled and film them engaging in activities they claim to be unable to do. Insurance companies use to do this and I knew a guy who worked for Hal Lipset, the San Francisco private detective agency and he had great stories of him exposing insurance fraud cases of this type.
I have a friend ( and I’m sure many of us have similiar anecdotal stories like this) I worked with who had neck problems and despite our employer making every effort to keep him employed including changing his duties and allowing him to take breaks every hour, wanted to get on SSDI and, in effect,
retire early. He did. He now spends his days fishing and hunting at his mountain cabin. He sent me a picture of at least two cords of firewood he had cut, split and stacked for the coming winter! I like the guy but dammit he is not disabled if he can cut split and stack firewood or track, kill and load a deer on his ATV.
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5th October 2012 at 9:12 pm
sensetti says:
Here’s a revelation our TBP Doctors have not shared with us.
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5th October 2012 at 9:19 pm
AWD says:
“I like the guy but dammit he is not disabled if he can cut split and stack firewood or track, kill and load a deer on his ATV.”
That statement is discriminatory of those with disabilities. He may have chronic hang-nails, persistent crotch-rot, a “trick” knee, a sore back, or he may be depressed because they cancelled “the Cosby show” on Nick at Night. The fact that he can do everything a normal person does not, in any way, preclude him from getting free money for life. He can’t be bothered by working, annoyed by showing up for work, or burdened by paying taxes. He lives in America, damn it, where you don’t have to work if you don’t want to. You are entitled, for life, to everything.
Especially food stamps
US Foodstamp Usage Rises To New Record High
“That data point of course was foodstamps (or the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka SNAP), and we are confident that no readers will be surprised to learn that foodstamp usage for both persons and households, has jumped to a new all time record…. Finally, and putting it all into perspective, since December 2007, or the start of the Great Depression ver 2.0, the number of jobs lost is 4.5 million, while those added to foodstamps and disability rolls, has increased by a unprecedented 21 million.”
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5th October 2012 at 9:21 pm
sangell says:
Apparently Auric Goldfinger would be eligible for Food Stamps as I inquired myself as to the programs requirements. It seems ‘gold’ is not considered a financial asset for the purposes of eligibility. I filled out the ‘trial’ eligibility form and found that I too would be eligible if I converted all my financial assets into gold and kept only 2000 in cash, disposed of my vehicles and leased one ( I was considering a Jaguar as that would consume sufficient pension income) and even my paid for condo would cause no problems ( but the boat would).
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5th October 2012 at 9:36 pm
AWD says:
The 47% Rule!
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5th October 2012 at 10:04 pm
SSS says:
Administrator says:
“48 inches – 350 lbs” in response to my request for his height/weight to calculate his BMI.
Ok, he’s a really heavy midget coming in at 132 BMI, whereas anything over 30 BMI is considered obese. This makes him as dense as a neutron star and thus eligible as a WMD.
Conclusion? 24 hour drone surveillance over Admin’s house and neighborhood. DHS already has the address.
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5th October 2012 at 1:26 am
ron says:
Freedom,isnt it great.Im sure there are many people who cant work and need it. Just change the subject to say,gun control and look at your comments.So you all think guns should be illegal and people who say they need them are telling lies.Something like this anyways.
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5th October 2012 at 11:29 pm
Dugz says:
Showing a picture of Stephen Hawkings, and then saying that all disabled people should get off their asses and get back to work like he does is a pretty cheap shot. What about people like me who have gone insane? I used to be an engineer before I got sick. Do you want me to go back to work and design some insane highway bridges for you? I would like to be able to work, the money was nice. I have been waiting over a year now on a disability claim, having been unemployed for five years. Assuming I am successful, which is a big “if,” I can look forward to a meager pension which is barely enough to survive on. There are a lot of leechers on disability for sure, but there are a lot of others who simply have no hope without it. Do you want me sitting in front of your house begging for food every day? I can grow my hair and beard and put on some old army clothes and stop showering. A lot of others can do that too. Do we need millions of sick, crippled, insane, homeless beggars in one of the richest countries in the world? Suck it up, you’re lucky to have the privilege of being able to pay taxes too support it. Trust me the alternative is worse.
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5th October 2012 at 3:35 am
Llpoh says:
Dugz does not sound insane. Sounds out of work. Out of work is not disables.
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5th October 2012 at 5:48 am
Llpoh says:
“disabled”.
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5th October 2012 at 5:49 am
flash says:
Dugz, enough of the B/S….. if you were really insane you’d either be working for the government or pushing pills in the medical field.
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5th October 2012 at 7:36 am
Novista says:
Dugz
” … in one of the richest countries in the world?”
After that, I agree, you are insane. And .. if the shoe doesn’t fit, why let it pinch?
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5th October 2012 at 7:59 am
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Dugz
Any idiot can get on SSDI. You really are a loser if you can’t fake your insanity. Maybe you should go with back pain or depression.
Did you design the Schuykill Expressway?
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5th October 2012 at 8:08 am