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What does disability mean to you and who qualifies?

What does disability mean and who should get it?

  • who cares, it is unmanagable

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    27
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Gleaners seem pretty successful, maybe we could use them as a model. You would have an administrative staff to handle these things, just like any charity. And if the disabled need funds, they may get them, who's to say they wouldn't?

Also, please give this video a try if you have time: Disability, USA - 60 Minutes - CBS News

Gleaners are not medical/psychological/disability experts. They are volunteers collecting food. Again, who determines what needs the person with disabilities has? What if it's not medical but living expenses, as they now receive? Who determines they are eligible and how?

The video is not all it's cracked up to be: Outrage Grows Over

There were any number of experts who could have been interviewed on this topic to counterbalance the views of a far-right senator who is best known as a denier of global warming (Tom Coburn). But Sixty Minutes apparently could not be bothered to present a more balanced picture of the disability program.

The basic fact, which may be painful for CBS News and Sixty Minutes, is that it is not easy to get on Social Security disability. Close to three quarters of applicants are turned down initially and even after appeal, 60 percent of applicants are denied benefits.
 
Gleaners are not medical/psychological/disability experts. They are volunteers collecting food. Again, who determines what needs the person with disabilities has? What if it's not medical but living expenses, as they now receive? Who determines they are eligible and how?

The video is not all it's cracked up to be: Outrage Grows Over

What, do you want me to submit a policy to you? Each location will probably go off of the same basic template, but then again, maybe they won't. If a disabled person feels they've been mistreated at one office, they can try out another.

They're not going to get the exact same thing as the government provides. Friends and families will be doing more than they do now, which will actually be better for the disabled imo. Some may receive cash, but not nearly like the government is doling out. Help would probably come more in the form of helping to find roomates for cheaper rent, medical supplies like wheelchairs, braces, etc..., transportation, etc...

And I find it hard to believe that 60 Minutes is running a hit piece on an entitlement.
 
What, do you want me to submit a policy to you? Each location will probably go off of the same basic template, but then again, maybe they won't. If a disabled person feels they've been mistreated at one office, they can try out another.

They're not going to get the exact same thing as the government provides. Friends and families will be doing more than they do now, which will actually be better for the disabled imo. Some may receive cash, but not nearly like the government is doling out. Help would probably come more in the form of helping to find roomates for cheaper rent, medical supplies like wheelchairs, braces, etc..., transportation, etc...

And I find it hard to believe that 60 Minutes is running a hit piece on an entitlement.

No, I want you to describe the structure that would replace disability. If you are familiar at all with handling people with disability, you could describe the structure of the charity.

Answer these questions:

Who determines what needs the person with disabilities has? What if it's not medical but living expenses, as they now receive? Who determines they are eligible and how?

Why do you find that hard to believe?
 
If a disabled person feels they've been mistreated at one office, they can try out another.
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So, in other words, those private institutions were just open arms with the disabled wanting to get an education? It was tough enough getting them entry in the public sector in the 1960s, let alone them gaining services in the private sector without federal funds right now.
 
No, I want you to describe the structure that would replace disability. If you are familiar at all with handling people with disability, you could describe the structure of the charity.

Answer these questions:

Who determines what needs the person with disabilities has? What if it's not medical but living expenses, as they now receive? Who determines they are eligible and how?

Why do you find that hard to believe?

I just explained to you the structure. Local charities will serve people and national charities will help fund the poorer communities. It's not going to be exactly like the government, everyone won't get a $1200 check, it would be different, more personal and hands on. As far as who'll determine their needs, that will depend on the policy that community adopts, which probably would follow some sort of basic template like everyone else uses.

If you're afraid that a disabled person might slip through the cracks and not get help, look at Detroit.....who's received more entitlement money than them. How can my plan turn out worse than Detroit?
 
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