Let me borrow a clever line I’ve heard here before, “a hit dog will holler.” Hope I did that right.
OT: Made in the USA
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But we have canine teeth, we sposed to eat a bunch of meat Pawwwww!!!1111!!
Also, here is a completely unrelated picture of a herbivore that eats his own crap.
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Huh, I must need work on my delivery.
If this go off the rails, sorry.
To completely dismiss his comment the way you did seems disingenuous. There are many people in this country who are capable of working jobs that can contribute to society’s betterment, but are content to stay home and live on government assistance. Many people believe that reducing the number of able bodied adults on government assistance will increase the amount of people in the labor pool. It’s just a theory. Think about it. We’ll hash it out at the pre-tailgate planning party.
What government program(s) is/are paying able-bodied people to not work? I'm aware of TANF, which has a myriad of limitations including time. Also, I believe as part of the brett favre stealing scandal, we learned that 97% of these funds are not payed out in Mississippi.
But it sounds like you and lee are telling me the government is just giving out checks to able-bodied people and encouraging them not to work? I don't like that one bit.
You could start with anybody that got approved for disability by winning an appeal to an ALJ that approves benefits more than 95% of the time.
Knowing multiple ALJs and having seen approval stats for 15 years between 2004 and 2018(for 2 regions of the US, not all), your post misrepresents the SSI/SSDI process and overall results.
Where is this ALJ that approves 95% of appeals?
That approval percentage is probably 3x-10x higher than the overall federal appeal win %, depending on what is being compared.
If an ALJ is approving 95% of appealed cases, name em. There has to be some context that explains such a wildly different approval rate.
@johnson86-1 please don’t ruin the reputation of these young men. If you are aware of fraud please email [email protected]
I’ll bring the entire list to the tailgate. Without jumping too much down the political rabbit hole, which we’ve mostly avoided so far, i’ll say the food stamp/wic is often not used as intended. I’ve also seen the monies intended for helping poor kids not be used by the parent in the way politicians claimed it would be when advocating for the programs.
We can talk about those; neither are handouts tied to not working. In fact it’s often the opposite.
That was a Trump idea I liked if it were feasible. Hello Fresh style of food stamps. Healthy food delivered to the recipients.
Had to google for this, but:
David M Blume — 97%
- Henry H. Chambers — 93%
- Ronald Herman — 92%
- Paul L Johnston — 92%
- Andrea Addison — 91%
- Jeffrey Hatfield — 91%
- Margo Stone — 89%
- Jacqueline Y Hall-Keith — 89%
- Yeli Quinones-Regalado — 89%
- Donald R Colpitts — 89%
- Daniel A Piloseno Jr. — 89%
- Melinda McIntyre — 89%
- Benjamin R McMillion — 88%
- Jan Leventer — 88%
- Michael R Swan — 88%
- Phillip C Lyman — 87%
- William Wallis — 87%
- Marissa A Pizzuto — 86%
- David W Engel — 86%
- Matthew Malfa — 86%
- Donna L Walker — 86%
- Whitfield Haigler Jr. — 86%
- Gloria W Green — 85%
- John G Farrell — 85%
- Aubri Masterson — 84%
the number with a more than 95% approval rate has dropped. Last I have seen there were 20+ with a greater than 95% approval rate.
- https://www.atticus.com/advice/general/social-security-disability-judge-approval-rates
Interesting. I googled 3 random names on this list and another website shows all 3 with significantly lower approval stats up thru 2020.
So either those 3 random people happened to exponentially increase their approvals starting this decade, the stats of your site are wrong, the stats of the other site are wrong, or a combination of those 3 things took place.
I'll likely geek out a bit on this and go down a rabbit hole.
Regardless though, the overall approval rating of hearings when I last saw numbers I know were accurate was under 50%.
Complaining that a small % of all ALJs are approving too many is funny since it ignores the reality that a small % of ALJs also approve too few.
It's largely subjective, but there are also cases where you read the issues, talk with the person, and walk away dumbfounded as to how they were denied since they clearly can't work.
Perhaps it evens out. Or is that not possible and the issue is only one sided?
To be clear, I accept that there is some fraud/abuse in SSI/SSDI cases. I just disagree that it is at anywhere close to the scale that some claim it to be.
There isn't so much fraud that eliminating very instance would allow the US to reshore manufacturing at scale.
50% overturning the original decision is still indicative of a broken process. You have two different denials and on the third bite at the apple (2nd review), you’re still saying you’ve gotten it wrong 50% of the time? Either the ALJ’s are out of pocket or the initial application process is jacked up. I think sadly it may be both.
Have you gone thru the process with multiple people to see what is often denied the first time?
I’m a lifelong Republican, but that is total horseshit. The primary reason is whatever comes back on shore, it ain't gonna need people like that. The days of unskilled/semi-skilled labor making a good lower middle class living in industry are GONE in the US. Those days are NEVER coming back. Anything that reshores will be highly automated, and what little labor it requires will have to be highly skilled. There will be very good livings to be made in industry, but Bubba with at best a high school education ain’t getting those jobs.
Are you saying there aren’t people gaming the system? Do you really believe that?
There is about a 0.5% chance trump is owned by Putin, but not surprising you are that dumb.
What is Russia’s biggest export?
What does OPEC increasing output do to Russia?
In revenue, yes.
In labor participation, no.
I mention the two only because it seems like many on here are talking about one when responding to a comment about the other.
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this is where it all lands to me. Kevin O'Leary said it best about China, they are a bad actor in all of this, they do not play by the rules, and continue to steal "IP" and no one can do anything about it.....so, Xi and China, meet Karma.
There are other Asian nations that act and conduct business w/ integrity.
I don’t recall saying he was. I’m not surprised you yet again called names rather than offering anything of substance. I swear MAGAs are identical to 90’s liberals, incapable of doing anything but yelling louder.
You implied he might be which is dumb.
“The actions of the administration could indicate best case, Trump is playing chess, worst case, Trump is owned by Putin. I have my opinions, but I certainly would like nothing more than find out that I was completely wrong about all of my thoughts about Trump and that he earns himself gold stars in economics, diplomacy, the strengthening of America and fostering world peace. It would be good for all of us if he finds a workable plan and sticks with it.”
And I did ask some relevant questions to prove he’s not owned by Putin.
I don’t really know what to compare you too other than someone who lies about how they use to be really conservative but nothing you say is “really conservative”.
It’s rich having hamburglar Drump and heroin addict anti-vax boy preaching to the American people about being healthy.
How many people in here have applied and tried to use government services?
I was laid off in October and applied for unemployment.
Very rigorous process that never materialized with any support because I was hired a month later.
It ain’t easy just to “collect a check” as some think it is.
opened my eyes to the process as I’ve never been without a job since the day I could get a drivers permit with a work requirement
I was laid off in October and applied for unemployment.
Very rigorous process that never materialized with any support because I was hired a month later.
It ain’t easy just to “collect a check” as some think it is.
opened my eyes to the process as I’ve never been without a job since the day I could get a drivers permit with a work requirement