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2017-02-24 -Lurid Crime Tales-

How Jesse Jackson Jr. collects $138,400 a year from the federal government

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Posted by Skidmark 2017-02-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 And you wonder why "the elites" are willing to fight to the death (others' by preference) to keep their power?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-24 03:52|| 2017-02-24 03:52|| Front Page Top

#2 We've not heard or seen much from 'Triple-J' or the senior Jackson lately. Perhaps the incentive is working.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-24 08:17|| 2017-02-24 08:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey! That's more than I get for my phony, baloney job! Where's the sign=up list?

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-02-24 08:51|| 2017-02-24 08:51|| Front Page Top

#4 The payments flow to Jackson because he has bipolar disorder and depression ~~and graspy hands and no morals~~ — the issues that led to an extended leave from Congress in 2012 — and those conditions have been exacerbated by a "very difficult, contentious divorce" from former Chicago Ald. Sandi Jackson, Schatz said.

"Whatever benefits Jesse Jackson Jr. has, he earned them, and as a matter of law, he's entitled to them," the attorney said. "If the government thought he wasn't entitled to them, they wouldn't be paying them."

Jackson's workers' compensation benefits are for a temporary, total disability, the attorney said. His health is checked once a year or more, and should it improve, the benefits might change, the attorney said.
(why do I think it won't improve?)
"He's not a slacker, ~~he's a racial grifter~~" said Schatz, who disclosed that the ex-congressman is on medication and "not currently able ~~or willing~~ to work."

Posted by Frank G 2017-02-24 09:11|| 2017-02-24 09:11|| Front Page Top

#5 I would have guessed from the title that it involved one weird trick.

Snark of the day.

Posted by Crusader 2017-02-24 10:13|| 2017-02-24 10:13|| Front Page Top

#6 The payments flow to Jackson because he has bipolar disorder and depression ~~and graspy hands and no morals~~

IOW, a Democrat politician who got caught doing what Democrat politicians do.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-02-24 11:51|| 2017-02-24 11:51|| Front Page Top

#7 My brother had bi-polar disorder for 30 years (on meds)depressed and out of work for ten years (he lived with me for 8 of those years), but he couldn't get disability.

But he didn't have a Chicago attorney and friends in the right places.

Posted by Bobby 2017-02-24 12:40|| 2017-02-24 12:40|| Front Page Top

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