Blackburn Says GOP Will Only Take Social Security Away From Those Who Don't 'Deserve' It

[haele]

93. Question? Who's going to hire someone who's mentally f****d up they'd rather be an addict?

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Seriously. I've worked with struggling tweakers before - the ones who were lucky enough not to have a record.
They can get clean enough to be hired, but once they slide -and they will, as soon as something becomes critical, you must get rid of them or they'll blow the whole job to shit, and you and your project ends up losing everything - including any reputation your company might have had as a reliable partner.
Seriously, the people who scam to get on to SSDI or spend their lives working under the table - for whatever emotional or attitude reasons - are not the types who are going to be able to hold down a regular job as an employee or a legit (as in record-keeping and tax paying) businessman or contractor who can maintain any of the recognized ways to make a living.
And even if they "laugh at people who pay taxes", they're just lying to themselves; they need those taxpayers to support any standard of living they currently have.
These are people who would otherwise end up living -and dying- in some shitty RV in the desert, or spend their lives in and out of jail or on surfing couches to avoid the street they will inevitably otherwise end up on. SSDI is cheaper to the taxpayer than ERs and local jails.
They're not going to "come to their senses" just because they lose government assistance. They're living in a downward spiral they believe is their fate.

On edit -
Even though one person out of 300 million in this country may know one or two people who are scamming the system, you're still looking at maybe one out of 300 people receiving benefits who might "not deserve" them in Marsha Blackburn's world. But "Deserving" is a loaded adjective, especially when talking about possible neighbors or people with hidden disabilities - especially emotionally based ones. One person's unbearable pain is another's - or a younger's minor inconvenience.
Do we ruin the slim chances at a bearable existence for a hundred or so families just because one damaged, selfish asshole only feels empowered by gaming the system, because there's little else they are capable of doing that satisfies them?
If the scammer is only getting Medicaid from his or her petty games - because that and a couple tanks of gas about all SSDI might get them, it's a mighty poor scam for the effort - 'specially since only 20% of SSDI applications get approved first time around.
Now, if you're talking Workers Comp fraud... That's a State issue, and a much larger problem than SSDI fraud.

Haele