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Four More Years...and Social Security Disability Will Be Broke

glide Wrote: Sep 09, 2012 10:48 AM
Social Security Disability is nothing more than welfare program for those who do not want to work. I happen to know an individual who golfs three times a week, does work in his yard requiring lifting heavy cement bags and digging holes, not to mention everything else he does, yet because of a break in his ankle from many years ago, he is now 50 years old and went on disablity. We have never had so many people on disability as we do now since the Obama Administration. Vote this man out!
Jerome49 Wrote: Sep 10, 2012 10:19 AM
Not all on S.S. disability are frauds. Most are legit. that being said, there are many who are robbing the system blind because they are not disabled from doing work.
hunkahunka Wrote: Sep 09, 2012 4:52 PM
SSD has its place in today's society by providing income for those who cannot work for health reasons and due to failures on the part of state welfare departments who are suffering record budget cuts to take up the slack; however, there has been a lot of SSD abuse as of late. Mainly from those who given up on looking for a job with a pay scale that they "think" they deserve instead of accepting a lesser paying job, then rebuild off of that via hard work. Many feel that is is not worth it or that it is simply too much candy for a dime to try to rebuild after a 25-40 year stint with a company and simply take the easy out. After all, they say, everybody else is doing it. Nanny state government needs to be cleaned up for use by the truly needy.
JoAnne127 Wrote: Sep 09, 2012 1:13 PM
I knew a woman who did the same thing. Her lawyer boyfriend told her not to work in the yard, or anywhere the public may see her because she could get filmed. She had me praying for her and said her breast implants made her ill. She got them taken out free. She entered a law suit vs. the company. She collected disability (said soft tissue damaged, no one can verify that, and her doctor friend said she was disabled, fibromyalgia). She borrowed money from me for the law suit. She once scrubbed her carpets by hand because she wanted them real clean. She won the suit, disappeared with a former boyfriend and never paid me back. I also know three other folks who said it is better to go on disability because they get more free things.
preacher1611 Wrote: Sep 09, 2012 11:40 AM
Then you should report him. I have a friend whose wife is a full time investigator for benefits fraud. If someone is legitimately disabled, then they legitimately need help. But there are far too many parasites.
kurban Wrote: Sep 09, 2012 11:09 AM
Plenty of that going on---and they must be more deligent on granting ssd---However my father in law had an awful stroke few years back---no way could he work EVER,and to boot he was just 57.Without his ssd he would be on the street---at least he gets by,and carry on what little quality of life he has left.
JoAnne127 Wrote: Sep 09, 2012 1:16 PM
Well, years ago, I met a vet who coudn't get some sort of disability for some reason. He was on crutches. I picked him up in my car (not knowing any better) and offered to take him home. I'll never forget his name was Bob "White (because of the bird)...and he had me drop him off in a park
in Waco. I know he was homeless, and just didn't know how to get the aid due him. There are good guys out there who need help, also.

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