LL> Let's see how well those who are presently on disability (SSDI)   
    LL> manage to survive when their checks are cut by 20 percent in 2016.   
    LL> Let's see how those on disability manage to survive when conservative   
    LL> Republicans undo at least some of Ronald Reagan's 1984 reform that   
    LL> expanded the kinds of disabilities covered.   
      
    LL> Do you think the Congress will do anything to save the SSDI trust   
    LL> program?  By doing nothing, the cuts take effect automatically.   
    LL> What will happen is Republican lawmakers will say something along   
    LL> the lines of "Let's compromise" to the Democrats, and then refuse   
    LL> to go along with anything the Democrats propose.  To obstruct, by   
    LL> any means necessary, resulting in getting exactly what they want,   
    LL> while blaming Obama at the same time.   
      
    LL> After gutting the SSDI program, Republican lawmakers will move on   
    LL> to gutting the Social Security program for retirees age 65 and over.   
    LL> Won't that be grand?   
      
    LL> Let's defund Obamacare, and gut Social Security.  Leave everybody   
    LL> broke and without access to quality medical care.  No more social   
    LL> security or medicare for anybody.  But let's keep SSI and medicaid,   
    LL> as funding for those programs come out of general tax revenues   
    LL> rather than dedicated trust funds financed mainly by payroll taxes.   
      
    LL> Imagine that.  Folks who never worked a day in their life are better   
    LL> off than folks who worked their butts off their entire lives.   
      
    LL> What we thought were entitlements are now fast becoming just a pipe   
    LL> dream.  Maybe you think working until you drop is the thing to do.   
    LL> After all, there are lots of folks who are in their 80s working as   
    LL> greeters at WalMart.  But it seems to me that most folks would prefer   
    LL> having a bit of free time after having worked for sixty or seventy   
    LL> fucking years.   
      
     This is the best message I've read all day. Outstanding!   
      
       HusTler   
      
      
      
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