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Family in Missouri has been receiving disability checks for 4 generations
Posted on 6/14/17 at 9:52 am
Posted on 6/14/17 at 9:52 am
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A profile of one family in Missouri, where four generations have been receiving disability checks.
"The boys were identical twins William and Dale, 10. They were the fourth generation in this family to receive federal disability checks, and the first to be declared no longer disabled and have them taken away."
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Posted on 6/14/17 at 10:11 am to saintforlife
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Family in Missouri has been receiving disability checks for 4 generations
Misleading bc
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the first to be declared no longer disabled and have them taken away."
Posted on 6/14/17 at 10:15 am to saintforlife
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A profile of one family in Missouri, where four generations have been receiving disability checks.
"The boys were identical twins William and Dale, 10. They were the fourth generation in this family to receive federal disability checks, and the first to be declared no longer disabled and have them taken away."
Various Democrats have said that doesn't happen so you must be lying. I guess next you're going to try to convince us that it was a Democrat that shot up the ball park in Alexandria this morning, eh?
Posted on 6/14/17 at 10:15 am to saintforlife
they call it the check out in Linvingston Parish. I worked at a bank branch for 2 months in walker. It's a cycle of disability checks, pain meds, pay day loans.
Posted on 6/14/17 at 10:17 am to saintforlife
There are so many like this across southern Missouri (and all over rural America); fat, lazy, and entitled; always the victim; never doing anything to better themselves or their families but finding new angles to get at the government tit.
Posted on 6/14/17 at 10:19 am to saintforlife
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This month, reality was a $600 electricity bill that included late payments. An additional $350 for the mortgage, $45 for water, $300 for cellphones. Then $98 for cable television, $35 for Internet service, $315 for furniture bought on credit, $35 for car insurance and $60 for life insurance.
This pretty much sums up their problem. They are paying more money each month for things they don't need than they are paying for things they do need.
At one point it describes one of the "adults" furiously researching autism symptoms and any other disability label she could hang on the twins. At no point was getting a job even remotely considered a solution to their problems. Getting more government checks was the only option.
Complete, 100%, dependence on the US government: promoted by the Democratic Party and paid for by the American taxpayer.
This post was edited on 6/14/17 at 10:47 am
Posted on 6/14/17 at 10:22 am to HaveMercy
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$350 for the mortgage
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$300 for cellphones
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$98 for cable television
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$35 for Internet service,
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$315 for furniture bought on credit
lulz
Posted on 6/14/17 at 10:22 am to saintforlife
With their free guvmit checks gone, they won't know what to do with themselves. No example to look back on.
Posted on 6/14/17 at 10:28 am to Yat27
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Yat27
My thoughts too
Posted on 6/14/17 at 10:33 am to TheFonz
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guvmit checks gone
Trump should executive order no welfare. Just to see what would happen for a while until courts reverse it. He should make it very wordy so he can keep changing it slightly to make a new order for no welfare. The trolling would be hilarious.
Posted on 6/14/17 at 10:36 am to TheFonz
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With their free guvmit checks gone, they won't know what to do with themselves. No example to look back on.
I know what will happen. They will either:
1.get a job
2.starve
3.steal something and either get killed doing so or caught and go to prison... where they will be provided food and shelter.
This post was edited on 6/14/17 at 10:37 am
Posted on 6/14/17 at 10:53 am to saintforlife
It's amazing how raw and unsympathetic the portrait can be when it's white folk.
Disability is just another form of unemployment with a pool of doctors all too willing to certify.
Disability is just another form of unemployment with a pool of doctors all too willing to certify.
Posted on 6/14/17 at 10:55 am to saintforlife
Not too disabled to slay some poon
Posted on 6/14/17 at 10:57 am to the808bass
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Disability is just another form of unemployment with a pool of doctors all too willing to certify.
I totally agree.
Somewhat related...I've noticed over the past few years signs at doctors offices near reception desks that go something like "we do not certify disability".
Posted on 6/14/17 at 11:06 am to the808bass
Why would children get you a bigger disability check? They are obviously on medicaid. Do non-autistic children eat less food?
Posted on 6/14/17 at 11:06 am to saintforlife
I have been trying to tell people this for years. The problem is not welfare, it is social security disability
Posted on 6/14/17 at 11:09 am to saintforlife
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Kathy sat with a notepad that said “Live Like Your Life Depends On It” and did the math. Their monthly checks totaled $2,005 — $1,128 less than when the twins received benefits — and bills would consume all of it except $167. There wouldn’t be enough to whittle down her payday loans. Or to settle up with the school for her granddaughter’s cheerleading. Or to pay her lawyer for a divorce from her fourth husband.
So she has money for 4 divorces, her granddaughters cheerleading and cable but can't make ends meet?!
Posted on 6/14/17 at 11:18 am to Quinn225
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And yet others say it’s about money. Ruth Horn, director of social services in Buchanan County, Va., which has one of the country’s highest rates of disability, has spent decades working with profoundly poor families. Some parents, she said, don’t encourage their children academically, and even actively discourage them from doing well, because they view disability as a “source of income,” and think failure will help the family receive a check. “It’s not a hard thing to limit a person,” Horn said, adding: “It’s generations deep.”
The money isn't for food and basic necessities. It's supposedly for added expenses one might incur with a special needs child - like tutors, parenting courses, seminars, extra-curricular learning tools, homework aids etc. Funny I didn't see any of those type expenses in this families budget. Hmmm.
Saw it all the time when I was teaching. Keep the kid dumb, mo money.
Posted on 6/14/17 at 11:29 am to Chappy
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I have been trying to tell people this for years. The problem is not welfare, it is social security disability
Social security disability IS welfare. Just pointing that out.
Posted on 6/14/17 at 11:34 am to the808bass
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It's amazing how raw and unsympathetic the portrait can be when it's white folk.
I thought the same thing. The article stressed this was a rural issue. Yet it's not at all limited to rural areas and has this has also been a problem in the black community for years. It's a problem that cuts across race and geography.
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