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[Neutral Corner]

I've helped several people get qualified for disability payments over the years. Every single one of them has been 1) truly unable to work; 2) wanting to work; and 3) a total nightmare to get approved. For people without much of a work history or whose work has been under the table/part of the cash economy - the monthly payments aren't even subsistence level. It was under $800 a month, last I checked. The cheapest rooming houses in the area charge $750 for a roach-infested room.

I absolutely agree with this. SS makes everyone jump through hoops of fire, and from experience I absolutely expect them to turn down virtually every initial application.After our car accident and her rehab, my wife returned to work and continued to do so until her physical limitations forced a medical retirement. She's one of the few people I know of who got SSD almost immediately. That said, working in a family practice clinic I saw multiple cases of people who were either on the disability train or trying to get there. Disability fraud is a very real thing, and there's a helluva lot of folks out there who'd be happy to get that little check and sit on the couch and watch TV.

 

[garrow]

Jimmy Carter built houses for the poor. Trump stiffed contractors who built apartments for Russian mobsters.

 

[Neutral Corner]

 

[dixiehack]

Goin' great!

Flu surges in Louisiana as health department barred from promoting flu shots

 

[garrow]

Jimmy Carter is the only president to attend the Naval Academy. Trump is the only president to start a fake university to rip off his future base voters.

 

[SixToe]

People should be smart enough to get a flu vaccine without the government encouraging, telling, suggesting or otherwise promoting said innoculations.

A lot of them aren't, of course, but it should be common sense. Same as "eat your vegetables instead of processed shirt" and "get daily exercise."

 

[micropolitan guy]

People should be smart enough to get a flu vaccine without the government encouraging, telling, suggesting or otherwise promoting said innoculations.

A lot of them aren't, of course, but it should be common sense. Same as "eat your vegetables instead of processed shirt" and "get daily exercise."

People should be smart enough to do a lot of things without being prompted by the government, their doctor, or someone else. Guess what? They're not.

It's the government's job to "promote the general welfare." Reminding people to get flu shots applies.

 

[wicked]

My nurse ex who was the first to get on me about not getting a flu shot is now a Trumper and is probably anti-vax. What a messed up world we live in.

 

[garrow]

Heard several times today in news reports about Carter that "failures outweigh accomplishments." Yeah, but not for Trump! His COVID failure dwarfs anything Ford or Carter or Bush 41 did wrong, g*damnit, but it got memory holed.

 

[Spartan Squad]

Republican politicians are never held accountable for the things they actually say and do....but all Dems are punished because someone somewhere once said "Latinx" a word so obscure I have never heard a single Dem politician utter it and for months didn't know how it was pronounced because I only saw it in print.

I primarily hear it in education functions (conferences, trainings, things where we have a speaker and the like). It's usually used when people have worked within the Queer community extensively.

But outside of areas where we're all trying to out woke each other, I almost never hear it. NPR if I'm listening to Latino USA. Or if I want to see me weirdly anti-woke Hispanic dad go on a rant.

 

[garrow]

Huh, why is that?

The Number of Murders Kept Falling This Year, But Fear of Crime Persists

 

[Twirling Time]

It's pronounced Latin X.

"Latinx" is deer urine they sell to hunters south of the Rio.