I know. She's still taking my money, too. I can't get my student loan discharged, even though I have a demonstrated permanent disability.

@KKGator she committed felony perjury 2017 Senate confirmation hearings denying she was Vice President of AmWay schools run by her mom and is going to jail violating a Federal Judge order now for months collecting debts for a corrupt school ordered out of business

@Larry68Feminist Just another fucking swamp-dweller.

@KKGator she got her job quid pro quo for TrumpOLINI by delivering 3 million names addresses phone numbers and emails to the 2015 2016 campaign because AmWay owns the Medicare Medicaid contract in Michigan.... corrupt Congress does nothing about this fraud mega crime because Democrats do the same thing in other states

I remember back when I first had to apply. They conducted a series of phone interviews because I was living in the sticks and couldn't get to one of the offices.
In any case, one of the interviewers asked me if I was depressed, in addition to being legally blind. I told her that of course I was, and asked her wouldn't she be a little depressed if she was losing her vision and had to go on disability?
No one ever asked me that question again.

@K9Kohle789 Of course anyone paying attention knows there is no 2 party system both sides have worked together to consolidate money and power.

Paul Ryan started this bullshit years ago. McConnell took it up, with a vengeance when that coward "retired".

@KKGator And Faux News will garner support for all of the BS by calling it an Entitlement Program and claiming the system is overloaded by fraud.

Many people's conditions are going to be reassessed by NON-medical personnel. Very much like what for-profit insurance companies are already doing to millions of Americans right now.

I'm sure they haven't, and they won't.
They have zero interest in doing anything that would make any sense.

@KKGator the things they do make sense to them. Somehow. The answer to that is probably here, somewhere [dsm.psychiatryonline.org]

@1of5 I have zero interest in trying to understand why they do what they do.
I think it's all bullshit anyway. It all comes from a place of greed and darkness.
I don't believe for one second they're doing anything to "improve" anything.
They're targeting people who can't fight back. That's what they always do.
They're targeting people in need.
There is nothing remotely positive about any of this. No matter how they try to spin it.

@KKGator I agree for the most part, but I do want to understand it to best try and keep it from happening again. Trumps rise/popularity is frightening, especially since it appears to be cyclic in our civilization.

@1of5 For me, and I'm totally serious, it boils down to a whole lot of white people being very threatened by the fact they are no longer holding ALL the power. They're threatened by the fact that they (we) are becoming the minority.
It's also got A LOT to do with the unmitigated level of ignorance and hubris maintained by a lot of white people.

I get what you're saying, but I think the ONLY thing that's going to "cure" that is education. Which is something a lot of ignorant people are resistant to.

@KKGator no matter the skin colour, religious affiliation, economic status, culture, or sexual orientation, everyone wants to be in the majority because deep down, everyone knows we're all the same and the majority always finds ways to screw the minority - because people tend to blame thier problems on the things least like themselves.

Education in the form of exposure is about the only thing I think would work, but then we run into the "some people just fucking suck" rule and it reinforces thier prejudice.

This is why I drink and smoke. It's a flimsy excuse, but it works fr me.

@1of5 I had to quit both, and the only drugs I do now are the kind to keep me from dropping dead. I can't even find weed anymore.

I've had to take up angry bitchery full time.

@KKGator that sucks (not the keeping you alive part). Weeds been legal here for a few years and when I moved to Albuquerque I'd mail myself vape cartridges and edibles whenever I'd fly back up to see/help the folks.

I must say, you happen to be quite adept at it. From this side of the screen it's often a joy to watch.

@K9Kohle789 I don't understand any resistance to education. I don't want to be anywhere near anyone who doesn't wish to be educated.

@K9Kohle789 Yeah, plus they're generally big believers, too.
Pass.

That's terrible. I am so sorry.

I'm sorry, @LenHazell53, that's awful! Is there no way to challenge a decision? I know doing so here often takes an attorney, a cumbersome and expensive task.

Incidentally, the UK's punitive system (in which private companies have been given the role of deciding who does and does not qualify for disability benefit, and they of course strive for excellent performance - ie kicking people off disability benefit - so they get to retain the lucrative government contracts) is estimated to have led to 180,000 deaths.

@Jnei completely true

@Jnei, @KKGator @Lauren thank you all

I'm one of them, too.