Let them eat cake!

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Brianna

mr. Obvious? No.

the 'system' should help the helpless to engage in society. It's good for the mental health plus more. You wanna deprive good people the chance to contribute? talk to someone else. Lots of folk want to m atter...you can volunteer without loss of benes....or didn't you know that?

Huh?

I don't get the connection between what I said and what you said.

My point was that if it is currently set up so that if you earn over a certain dollar amount you lose a large lump sum, then that actually discourages the recipient from earning money unless they can make enough to cover the entire SSDI payout and more. If, instead, the SSDI was decreased slowly as the recipient earned more, then every dollar they earned would reperesent a net increase in income, and there would be no point at which earning another dollar would be a net negative.

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Huh?

I don't get the connection between what I said and what you said.

My point was that if it is currently set up so that if you earn over a certain dollar amount you lose a large lump sum, then that actually discourages the recipient from earning money unless they can make enough to cover the entire SSDI payout and more. If, instead, the SSDI was decreased slowly as the recipient earned more, then every dollar they earned would reperesent a net increase in income, and there would be no point at which earning another dollar would be a net negative.

it;s possible that I didn't mean YOU>

[Flint]

you quoted him