01-16-2015, 10:32 AM
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Re: Too Much Candor
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
A couple of thoughts:
(1) I have no doubt that there are dubious claims, but I also have seen people with clear issues struggle to get their claims recognized.
(2) This is anything but a third-rail issue. You are talking about people who don't have money and who aren't politically organized. Which Republican is going to lose his seat for trying to cut disability insurance?
(3) The reason the GOP is going after SSDI is not to reform SSDI (which would be a different conversation) but to engineer a crisis over SSDI's fiscal health to go after Social Security again. |
And fuck the GOP.
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