"This ghoulish scheme would reduce eligibility for the disability program by 10%"

This is an attempt to make sure the disability benefits get to those who are actually disabled.
#4 | Posted by lfthndthrds

So you just happen to know exactly 10% of disabled people are faking it.

Can we see your data?

"Hopefully it's less but the assumption is 10% of those receiving the benefits don't qualify and should be kicked off."

If it's less than 10%, people who deserve benefits are going to be kicked off when 10% get kicked off.
Assuming they're somehow capable of making an accurate determination, which of course they aren't.

"Dems hate this because it's usually them who are cheating the system and allowing it."

It's sad how you just lie to yourself in almost every post.
You have no clue who gets SSDI in this country -- but getting SSDI is not partisan.

"In my opinion, disability programs are rife with abuse."

In my opinion, the abuse of disability programs is a natural outgrowth of an economy that cannot sustain the lower class.

Even Eberly can agree with that! (Though he is the only Republican who can agree with it.)

This is like saying 25% cuts to cancer research is a good idea because 25% of cancer research is fraudulent.

And Republicans really believe that to be the case. They really think cancer research is rife with fraud.

"Of the ones I've known abusing the system, most are Republicans."

Like Marjorie Taylor Greene, crying that her kids will be hurt if Obamacare Handouts stop.

They didn't have some illness or injury that kept them from working unless you want to count the alcoholism as an illness that keeps you from working.
#26 | Posted by eberly

^
"Counting or not counting gang violence?"

"It's because I think a lazy alcoholic should get off his ass and stop leeching off the rest of us."

And you think you and millions of people just thought of this independently, without the media giving you any ideas that lazy alcoholics are somehow obtaining benefits they aren't entitled to.

Millions of Republicans think Democrats are shutting down government until Republicans agree to give benefits to illegals.

Benefits they aren't entitled to.

I wonder how they got that idea.

Alcoholism is a disease.

Thinking people should stop having a disease is just Thoughts and Prayers, minus the Thoughts and Prayers thing where you pretended you cared before you went back to not caring.

You just want an excuse to be nasty to people. Especially to the people you think are nasty.

Why did you go with ghettos and not our national leaders RFK Jr. and Pete Hegseth, both addicts?

Racism is why.

A lot of folks think a lot of untrue things because the billionaires who own the media want them to, in order to advance an agenda that helps the billionaires.
#33 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

It is more pernicious than simply believing lies.

It's not untrue that there are addicts in the ghetto.

Ghetto is what Eberly associates with addicts. Not, you know, Kitty Dukakis. She gets a pass. She's not the "ghetto" kind of Democrat addict

That's how it works.

Yeah...lazy alcoholic but thank god I didn't have him under my roof.
He eventually drank himself to death.
#42 | Posted by eberly

That's how you treat family.

So Eberly you should want to keep disability intact, to keep these lowlifes out of your hair.

Ghettos are worse because the US allowed illegal immigrants into the country without mitigation.
#47 | Posted by oneironaut

Yes, bringing over those slaves is the root if the problem.

Slavery is why we have black people.

Racism is why black people were pushed into ghettos.

"Stupid, lazy people should be paid to not work."

^
It's just like when the libs say "we should take in refugees!"

And Republicans say "Fine, how many are you taking into you home?"

People say "Drunk lazy people should get jobs!"
But how many do they hire?
None. Well, none on purpose anyway.
Because nobody wants to hire drunk lazy people.
It pretty reliably doesn't work out well.

SSDI "abuse" is a reflection of the fact that nobody wants to hire Eberly's lazy drunk relative.

Cutting SSDI won't make lazy drunk people get better.

It will just force their problems to become other people's problems.

Tell them I'm right, Eberly. Let's have a healing moment.