Unfit For Work?

[Pete Zicato]

As I get older and my Crohn's disease gets worse, I may be forced into this situation.

[Nirvana]

My neighbor down the road has nothing wrong with him except that his aging mother gave him the money to hire an attorney after he was turned down for disability so that he could appeal. He was putting a caution cone in a truck when he worked for the Toll Rd claims the truck was going too fast and hurt his shoulder.


I have seen him building a stone fountain in his yard, hanging 2 inch plywood in his barn and other things. He is 46 he is gonna be on disability for the rest of his life.

I am sorry you have a problem Pete, you are an apple to this guy's orange.

[maineiac04631]

Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

As I get older and my Crohn's disease gets worse, I may be forced into this situation.

Same here, I have had it since 1982 and it was the worst when I was 25. Discovered by accident that marijuana gave me better symptom relief than the steroids and opiates the doctor prescribed.

[be-bop]

Could someone tell me that when the crash happened some time around 2008 it was bad bankers. dodgy sub prime loans and mortgages and governments in cahoots with the investment industry that was the problem.
Now it's a witch hunt on the poor and benefit claiments, public sector workers, and everyone now has to pay for with "austerity measures" and tightening their collective belts.
That was some spin to turn it around and find a new enemy get the proles to fight amongst themselves and blame the poor cos if you claim benefit you must be a scrounger, this seems to be the new mantra.
The UK Tory coallition govt are getting us back to Victorian values all right we'll soon be sending kids up chimneys again, we can't have kids wasting time at school when they could be working now can we?

[IamSam]

There are so many myths and half truths about the Social Security disability program(s). The person who wrote that article seems to have fallen for many of them.

More people want to get affirmation of their own personal system of belief than they want to get the truth - especially if it's not their brand of the truth. A significant percentage of people in America today want to do away with what remains of this country's social safety net. I have my theories as to why this may be so, but bottom line, I really have no idea.

It would appear that many people besides Romney and his wealthy patrons have come to the conclusion that their fellow Americans are con artists - lazy, lying cheats who will go to any lengths to wallow in an endless shower of money and benefits rained down upon them by Uncle Sam and paid for by struggling billionaires who can barely juggle the payments on their 5th Jaguar, their 4th villa in France, and the cost of buying most of Congress.

The above is proved true by the lack of disabled people and older workers getting hired for jobs. Thanks to the ADA and EOE and the rest of the gov't alphabet soup, employers would jump at the chance to hire a 62 year-old worker with a disability. It couldn't possibly be that actually employers would rather hire someone else and there's no way of proving discrimination either way, so why bother?

I think a country where survival of the fittest and social Darwinism is held in such high esteem will get its just desserts - maybe later, but probably sooner. Apparently there are many who believe the result will be some kind of utopia. Maybe so. Even the society arrived at in Lord of the Flies must have felt utopian to the victors.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by IamSam

There are so many myths and half truths about the Social Security disability program(s). The person who wrote that article seems to have fallen for many of them.

Here's a criticism of that NPR show which caused them to change the web version.