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2013-04-04 Economy

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2013-04-04 10:11|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 and the tax treatments of disability pay or retirement

Posted by Frank G 2013-04-04 12:20|| 2013-04-04 12:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Is disability the new welfare?

Yes. The democrats, during the Reagan push to "reform" welfare, deliberately loosened the requirements to continue funneling bribes and payoff money to their constituents (vote buying on credit, where the money is delivered AFTER the election, not before.)

But want to expand on the comment at the end regarding lawyers: I submit that Congress knows precisely what is good for business and knows what it takes to have a thriving business sector, mainly because of the way they regulate the business that they DO know about, which is lawyering.

And how do they regulate lawyering?

That's the point: THEY DON'T.

The lawyer-business is totally self regulated. There are NO regulations imposed on lawyers by the federal government, and there are NO limitations placed on lawyers as riders on totally irrelevant bills.

I submit that the "stupid" laws being passed by lawyers on all other businesses and business fields are not done from ignorance, but from greed or malice: take 0bamacare, replace Doctor with Lawyer, and it would NEVER pass.

I'm ready for the Revolution (aka the Great Reset), for I KNOW who f*cked up the Great American Experiment.

Posted by Ptah 2013-04-04 12:34|| 2013-04-04 12:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Nothing new about it.

I was hired in 1974, along with a whole bunch, into the SSA when SSI was instituted. Supplemental Security Income was targeted Federal welfare as an adjunct to Social Security. The targets were clearly cut as the blind, aged and disabled.

Ooops there's that disabled term again. What does that mean? Originally in the terms of this program it meant physically unable to hold a job. What it has come to mean is just another excuse to redistribute money to favored "disadvantaged groups". It literally took less than a month for the welfare worms to attack this new barrel of apples.

The progressive welfare pushers immediately started pumping out pamphlets telling potential recipients how to game the system. They actually set up an information table in the lobby of our office building two or 3 blocks up from the WTC explaing the 4 A's of disability: Angina, Allergies, Arthritis and Arthereosclerosis.

Obviously old age and blindness is pretty cut and dried but disability???? Hoo boy.

The worst of it was that the damn state and city offices were the worst offenders. All NYC and state welfare offices forced ALL their recipients to come and apply for the federal benefit or they were cut off.

The black humor in the situation was pretty funny. There were a raft of girls from the limosine liberal strongholds of Vassar, Swarthmore, etc. that now had to deal with low-life scum where one woman had 7 children with 5 different men living in an apartment with her sister and her 3 kids from 3 other different men AND their boyfriends AND their father and his girlfriend. These "poor naive" misses turned in to raving racist Nazis in the proverbial blink of an eye.

Me? I thought that I was a cynical conservative when I started. When I quit a year later I was more cynical about the gov't then ever AND actually felt sorry for some of the "clients" because of the bureaucratic crap they had to endure.

Disability as the new welfare? It's enough to make a cat laugh.

Posted by AlanC 2013-04-04 12:39|| 2013-04-04 12:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Warning: long rant.
In 2002, it took us eleven months to get funding for in-home autism therapy. Just after the therapy started, the new (Dem) Gov's office said, "Gee, why are we giving kids 30 hours of therapy a week? Why can't they do this for a few hours in a doctor's office?"

One of the providers for Early Childhood autism therapy managed to convince legislators that the therapy really only worked for kids under seven. So his program gets all the funds now, and those kids diagnosed at age 7 are out of luck. It was quite interesting to discover that the appeals judge, who eventually granted one of our kids a modest extension of services, did not know that the age 7 cutoff was completely arbitrary.

The eleven months of therapy our kids did receive, before the state yanked the funds out from under older kids, has made our kids employable, functioning, and on their way to independence. My kids are paying their taxes.

It is unconscionable to set up road blocks for those who need disability assistance, and to turn around and give it away to people who just sit on their fannies.

Posted by mom 2013-04-04 12:59|| 2013-04-04 12:59|| Front Page Top

#5 I know (2) people who went this route. One even calls her monthly deposit her "paycheck" that she uses, in part, to go bowling....

Both of them are now former friends...they cannot understand what I have an issue with....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-04-04 19:52|| 2013-04-04 19:52|| Front Page Top

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