tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post6868400086390379118..comments2024-03-27T20:39:24.337-04:00Comments on Social Security News: Let Them Eat Cake!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-9958042065141113572015-04-24T20:31:30.672-04:002015-04-24T20:31:30.672-04:00Charles, your assertions border on crazy. Just be...Charles, your assertions border on crazy. Just because someone works at a laborious job and not in an office doesn't mean they can't do the easier job. <br /><br />There are lots of people working at jobs that would like easier jobs...they just can't get them. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-81392571957276384172015-04-24T04:54:51.806-04:002015-04-24T04:54:51.806-04:00The unfairness is not that between a lawyer and ...The unfairness is not that between a lawyer and someone who has done heavy work all his life. It is that between a truck driver who can retire at 55 and a chicken factory worker with the same conditions who has to work until 66.Lindavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06231267914486563332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-44105563750025488812015-04-23T14:06:23.918-04:002015-04-23T14:06:23.918-04:00*form, my mistake *form, my mistake Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-29787418983354110432015-04-23T13:02:27.866-04:002015-04-23T13:02:27.866-04:00SSC Result 2015
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This "so jus...Could not agree more with 7:19.<br /><br />This "so just give 'em money" crap shows the lack of cerebral capacity required for understanding individuals who pay into a system until their '50s, and then applying for disability due a medically determined impairment. If they are found disabled, the money they receive is part of the promise SSA disability involves. <br /><br />I used to work for the agency and there was always someone who felt they were self appointed to distribute tax dollars. But this lack of perspective is wide spread and tiresome. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-27326305172884650662015-04-23T09:38:03.519-04:002015-04-23T09:38:03.519-04:00Anonymous Anonymous said...
So just give them mone...Anonymous Anonymous said...<br />So just give them money because they're too stupid? Is that your message?<br /><br />7:19 AM, April 23, 2015<br /><br />Really, bro? Do you think these people want to live in poverty instead of working? Because living on disability is living in poverty. Look at what your disability payment will be -- it's not what most workers will get. The typical disabled individual earned minimum wage, maybe a couple bucks more per hour. Their disability payment is probably around $900-$1,100 a month. Go live on that. <br /><br />So you're indirectly saying, "We shouldn't "pay" these because they're stupid." What? What's the alternative in your opinion? Don't give them money, let them rely on handouts from family, your church, and beg on your street? Go hungry? Just die? Get into crime until they're imprisoned and cost $2,000 per month to the taxpayers to keep them incarcerated?<br /><br />No, the guy that changes your tires, bags your groceries, flips your burgers, cleans your office, welded the parts on your car, cuts your grass, has a steep uphill battle to prove disability. He would rather work. And he is not stupid, as you define it. He is not lazy. He probably worked more physical jobs than you did. <br /><br />I hear comments like yours all the time. Usually they're coming from someone who grew up privileged. Some how they think they "earned" their status. Bro, it was given to you, you just showed up. Don't be greedy. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-49587682052066447782015-04-23T09:25:37.188-04:002015-04-23T09:25:37.188-04:00a commenter nailed the answer to my question about...a commenter nailed the answer to my question about skills on that previous thread. Job skills, as they correctly pointed out, are learned, not innate. So in that respect it makes sense that SSA only puts folks to unskilled work, since the program doesn't put people in to work they can't currently perform. But I have a few issues with that notion and how it squares with two aspects of the program.<br /><br />First, a lot of people that begin a semiskilled or skilled position do not already possess the job skills necessary for the job. Sure, lots of folks get certifications, degrees, licenses, etc. that provide many or all of those skills, but a great many people learn the skills on the job. Why are people never required to acquire job skills on the job? I know, I know, employers are in fact getting much more demanding about having public schools, colleges, etc. (anyone but them) provide (i.e., pay) the workforce with these skills, making it much less likely someone without those skills could get hired for the job. But it doesn't make much sense to me considering the second issue I see:<br /><br />According to SSA disability program, if one does not have a physical impairment, one is necessarily able to perform medium and even heavy exertion. So you mean to tell me a 54-year-old woman standing 5'1" and weighing a buck o' five sopping wet can perform medium or heavy exertion if she has no severe physical impairment? But that same woman, let's say she has an IQ north of 130 and no mental impairments, is never expected to pick up a job skill?<br /><br />I get that skills are learned, but isn't strength? It's strange to me that physical and mental ability defaults are treated completely differently by SSA here--with mental job skills, SSA assumes nobody has them and cannot get them. With physical ability, unless you show you have a limiting impairment, you are assumed to be able to perform heavy exertion. <br /><br />It's just very odd to me the near-opposite default treatment of physical vs. mental.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-50474672022412206522015-04-23T07:37:10.392-04:002015-04-23T07:37:10.392-04:00You make some good points - it's illogical to ...You make some good points - it's illogical to assume that people are capable of doing jobs simply because those jobs are available in greater numbers. It's also ridiculous to use anecdotal evidence of people with smartphones as proof that most of the population is now qualified for skilled work.<br /><br />At the same time, you are also painting with too broad a brush. It's not reasonable to presume that everyone doing unskilled work either has psychiatric problems or lacks the intelligence to do office work. <br /><br />First, I disagree with the baseline assumption that physically-demanding jobs pay lower wages than sedentary office jobs.<br /><br />Second, employment choices (to the extent that there is a choice) are often driven by geographic considerations, not functional limitations. If a particular type of job isn't available very close to home, many people will take whatever is available rather than picking up roots. For better or worse, the disability standard does not depend on geographic preferences. <br /><br />Third, I think some commenters might have a problem with the general policy that people are not expected to do more complex jobs than they have actually performed. There appears to be a presumption that past work reflects the highest skill level that an individual is capable of performing. In other words, if you chose to work on a union assembly line for years and then apply for disability at 55 with an RFC for light work or less, SSA will presume that you can't adjust to an office job. There may be legitimate vocational reasons for this, but they're not immediately clear. "Employers don't hire and train old people" seems like an unsatisfactory answer to a complex question.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19246708.post-90659126229319265352015-04-23T07:19:56.616-04:002015-04-23T07:19:56.616-04:00So just give them money because they're too st...So just give them money because they're too stupid? Is that your message?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com