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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
How are you going to "teach" someone with MS or severe rheumatoid arthritis, or an IQ of 65 to work?
Social security should be for the retirement of working men and women. Welfare should be for the indigent. SS would be be solvent now if it weren't being spent for welfare. It's wrong to pay for taking care of the sick and the lame out of a fund paid for only by working men and women. Pay for their aid out of the general fund that everyone pays in to - welfare. What you suggest is yet another way to transfer the cost of government away from income and onto the wages of working people.
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If you added up all those with MS et al and were not able to work I don't think it would be as much as you think. Not a big drain in other words.
What I see first hand from 'training programs' from the state is that they are a freaking joke. I big joke. The problem isn't with the people that need help, the problem is how they are dealt with and managed. The government offices and personal that deal with them are as incompetent as you can imagine. If it was privatized and incentive focused then you would see many folks getting the training they need.