Political Ramblings

[bakerjw]

My wife is legally blind and and she could qualify for disability. We don't need it so she never applied and probably never will. She works with a lot of other people who are also blind, get disability and need the help. People that need assistance should get assistance. Where my problem lies is that people who can't control themselves enough to lose enough weight to work a normal job shouldn't get disability. And as for the 300+ pound guy, they're planning a European vacation with their back pay. Yep, their check will be enough fort them to trot off across the Atlantic. Kudos to them then since they know how to work the system. Tough luck to people like me that'll be putting in a 60+ hour week to help pay for it. But, hey. They'll vote for the party that keeps giving them stuff. Something to be proud of there isn't it?

Like I've said all along. If you need assistance, great. I don't mind money taken from me to help them. But if your situation can be rectified by getting off your dead backside and putting forth some effort, then I do have a problem. I have known way too many people who gripe and complain about their lot in life without ever even trying to do anything about it. It takes a work ethic and that is something that we have lost.

And if Hillary gets in, I'll probably scale back to part time work to stop feeding the leeches. I worked myself out of poverty. I went to college full time while working full time and supported a family of 4. I am 100% debt free and I own everything that I have free and clear. Our expenses are pretty minimal and a part time job would cover them all very easily and I'm not even 50.

 

[hemet dennis]

My wife is legally blind and and she could qualify for disability. We don't need it so she never applied and probably never will. She works with a lot of other people who are also blind, get disability and need the help. People that need assistance should get assistance. Where my problem lies is that people who can't control themselves enough to lose enough weight to work a normal job shouldn't get disability. And as for the 300+ pound guy, they're planning a European vacation with their back pay. Yep, their check will be enough fort them to trot off across the Atlantic. Kudos to them then since they know how to work the system. Tough luck to people like me that'll be putting in a 60+ hour week to help pay for it. But, hey. They'll vote for the party that keeps giving them stuff. Something to be proud of there isn't it?

Like I've said all along. If you need assistance, great. I don't mind money taken from me to help them. But if your situation can be rectified by getting off your dead backside and putting forth some effort, then I do have a problem. I have known way too many people who gripe and complain about their lot in life without ever even trying to do anything about it. It takes a work ethic and that is something that we have lost.

And if Hillary gets in, I'll probably scale back to part time work to stop feeding the leeches. I worked myself out of poverty. I went to college full time while working full time and supported a family of 4. I am 100% debt free and I own everything that I have free and clear. Our expenses are pretty minimal and a part time job would cover them all very easily and I'm not even 50.

You don't think you built that do you ?

 

[chickened]

More then just the relatively small money factor. I can just see inside the head of these two people who have gone on disability. If we could see inside their heads on the one hand you have a 30 year old who says, let me become a fat pig, have a heart attack and not be able to stand or walk. Then I can get disability and I will be a happy person. I don't get what the point of the issue is. Maybe as part of compasionate conservatism (or whatever) we just shoot them.

Maybe let them live with you... or do something easier give them a few bucks. There are many ways to look at this Don.

 

[chickened]

There is aright way and a wrong way to help people. I think there was a saying during the depression that said give them a hand up not a hand out. Enabling a person to continue a life on a meager 600.00 a month is not helping them. educating them to become a better more productive person in society is helping them. giving them some dignity by hiring them to teach them the rewards of hard work when they are young is helping them. Leave SS funds for those that payed into. If the people want to support deadbeats blindly or think that a drug addict or alcoholic should get disability for life then they should petition the government through legislation to enact a program just for that. I hardly think this would happen and that is why some in government have done forced wealth redistribution disguised as SS disability to somehow prove to someone that they are being compassionate when a real compassionate person would give someone thier shirt off thier back by choice.

 

[rufus]

It is supposed to be a safety net, not a hammock. My mother used to say "Sympathy cripples," maybe she was right.

 

[Capvin]

Ed...to me it is really unbelievable that you, and other conservatives still can not figure it out. Your statements could be an exact quote from Romney's campaign and it is the reason they lost. Almost any idiot should have been able to beat Obama; the election was theirs for thee taking, except for the insistence on making comments exactly like yours. Personnaly, I would like you to continue in the same vein just to insure that your voices won't be heard in politics for a long time.

 

[thaiturkey]

Ed...to me it is really unbelievable that you, and other conservatives still can not figure it out. Your statements could be an exact quote from Romney's campaign and it is the reason they lost. Almost any idiot should have been able to beat Obama; the election was theirs for thee taking, except for the insistence on making comments exactly like yours. Personnaly, I would like you to continue in the same vein just to insure that your voices won't be heard in politics for a long time.

I followed the election campaigning quite closely and listened to the views of many political experts. The general conclusion of quite a few was that Romney lost for several reasons:

1. Lack of respect for women.

2. Lack of respect for the poor.

3. Lack of respect for low wage earners.

4. Flip flopping.

5. An apparent lack of sincerity.

6. Lack of empathy with people.

7. His Party admitted that it put obstructing the Obama Administration before the needs of the country.

8. Opposing a health care plan that was based on his own successful model.

9 Jingoistic remarks.

10. An outmoded bullying style rather than a more effective consultative one.

Perhaps it's surprising that he didn't lose by a greater margin.

 

[kuntrygirl]

My wife is legally blind and and she could qualify for disability. We don't need it so she never applied and probably never will. She works with a lot of other people who are also blind, get disability and need the help. People that need assistance should get assistance. Where my problem lies is that people who can't control themselves enough to lose enough weight to work a normal job shouldn't get disability. And as for the 300+ pound guy, they're planning a European vacation with their back pay. Yep, their check will be enough fort them to trot off across the Atlantic. Kudos to them then since they know how to work the system. Tough luck to people like me that'll be putting in a 60+ hour week to help pay for it. But, hey. They'll vote for the party that keeps giving them stuff. Something to be proud of there isn't it?

Like I've said all along. If you need assistance, great. I don't mind money taken from me to help them. But if your situation can be rectified by getting off your dead backside and putting forth some effort, then I do have a problem. I have known way too many people who gripe and complain about their lot in life without ever even trying to do anything about it. It takes a work ethic and that is something that we have lost.

And if Hillary gets in, I'll probably scale back to part time work to stop feeding the leeches. I worked myself out of poverty. I went to college full time while working full time and supported a family of 4. I am 100% debt free and I own everything that I have free and clear. Our expenses are pretty minimal and a part time job would cover them all very easily and I'm not even 50.

I agree with your way of thinking.

 

[kuntrygirl]

There is aright way and a wrong way to help people. I think there was a saying during the depression that said give them a hand up not a hand out.  Enabling a person to continue a life on a meager 600.00 a month is not helping them.  educating them to become a better more productive person in society is helping them. giving them some dignity by hiring them to teach them the rewards of hard work when they are young is helping them.  Leave SS funds for those that payed into. If the people want to support deadbeats blindly or think that a drug addict or alcoholic should get disability for life then they should petition the government through legislation to enact a program just for that. I hardly think this would happen and that is why some in government have done forced wealth redistribution disguised as SS disability to somehow prove to someone that they are being compassionate when a real compassionate person would give someone thier shirt off thier back by choice.

I found out a few months ago that these "benefit" cards, (SNAP or whatever the free money cards are called) allows recipients of these cards to purchase "seeds" so they can plant gardens so that they can reap the benefits of fresh fruits and vegetables. I guess that is too much like work because I don't know any recipient who is taking advantage of this benefit. I'm sure there are a few but I never see it while I'm standing in line at the grocery store while the cashier is ringing up 3 grocery baskets full of FREE steak, shrimp, crabs, Little Debbie's cakes, Doritos, Skittles and cases of soda. I guess some of the females don't want to get their freshly manicured nails (compliments of all of the hard workers who make it possible for them) dirty by getting out there and planting a garden. I'm sure they don't want to sweat out their fresh hair-dos done by a professional beautician to get messed up. How dare they if a strand of hair gets out of place.

 

[mom'sfolly]

I don't think anyone can determine a person's whole life by standing behind them in the checkout line at the grocery store. I've stood behind a lot of people, and have never been able to see what kind of card they are using or been able to tell if they garden just by looking at them.

The average monthly SNAP benefit is $133 or about $1.50 per meal. I don't think anyone can buy three baskets full of "steak, shrimp, crabs, Little Debbis's cakes..." with a SNAP card. Go volunteer at your local food pantry, see what needy people look like. Surprisingly enough, they look just like everyone else.