tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post8356578794792919018..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: The mysterious epidemic of worker disabiltyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27719224202010649672013-04-12T09:06:23.934-07:002013-04-12T09:06:23.934-07:00In Tennessee, while there are supposedly many peop...In Tennessee, while there are supposedly many people on disability, it's common knowledge that getting on is almost impossible. The joke goes: Yes, we admit (after years of legal war) that you're a paraplegic. However, you can still hold a cup of pencils in your mouth and sell them on the street corner. Claim denied!<br /><br />People do have an exaggerated sense of how much social programs do. For example, SNAP (food stamps) has a maximum benefit for a family of four of $500 per month. So the maximum is roughly $4 per day per person.<br /><br />Yet corporate media tells us 24/7 that it's the disabled and the food stamp recipients who are bankrupting the nation...not the crooked and loser banks which needed $14 trillion in government handouts. Hey, the banks safeguard the free enterprise when they aren't destroying it and stealing depositors' money with both hands, so handouts to them are A-OK.<br /><br />President B.O. blew through more taxpayer money during his re-election junket and second inauguration than any group of SSI fakers could ever hope to spend. But that's A-OK, too, because O-dog be de MAN, bro.<br /><br />Meanwhile, when your back goes out for good, or your payroll tax (which skyrocketed on Jan. 1 thanks to O-dog) trips you up, or your Social Security check shrinks under chained CPI (or a similar scheme), there is a simple solution. Sell pencils on the street corner. Well that, or borrow a few grand to get a degree in video animation or blood-drawing at the local community college.Davidhttp://david-passingparade2.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7117287560701654282013-04-11T12:09:55.751-07:002013-04-11T12:09:55.751-07:00SSDI is slated to run out of money in 2016. That&#...SSDI is slated to run out of money in 2016. That's not a typo - it's 3 years from now, when I suspect the feds will raid the SS pot to keep it afloat.<br /><br />Two stories.<br /><br />I help folks who are new to Medicare, which you can get 24 months after being declared SSDI disabled. In 2012 I had 3 people getting Medicare who were so young that they were still on their parents' health insurance. One was 25, one 22, one 19 - all disabled none with any income to amount to anything other than a small SSDI check (though one did work a few hours a week) so that I suspect that the government paid for their Medicare as they certainly hadn't worked enough to qualify without buying it.<br /><br />I know a local 30-something who got a MA-Ed but couldn't find a job that she considered worthy of her talents. Last I heard from her, she was helping her mother (stroke victim) and 19-yo kid brother (autism) get SSDI and applying for it herself. <br /><br />I wouldn't bet that all 3 didn't get it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-60902362815542025682013-04-10T17:57:50.406-07:002013-04-10T17:57:50.406-07:00These days, not so much. Carpal tunnel, minor neck...<i>These days, not so much. Carpal tunnel, minor neck injuries, "fibromyalgia" (an entirely fake disease you get by reading a pamphlet), allergies, hurt feelings, bruised knees. All of these can get you Social Security now if you stick to it long enough.</i><br /><br />It's like ADHD. Most times, kids who are "disabled" with that have been misdiagnosed. They often have BPS (Bad Parenting Syndrome).alexishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14958611059030729965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59008367801047821342013-04-10T12:48:36.121-07:002013-04-10T12:48:36.121-07:00A little late for this, but I just have to share.
...A little late for this, but I just have to share.<br /><br />I'm a Southern California lawyer, practicing in workers compensation law (employer (defense) side) for a little over a decade now. Social Security has a tremendous amount of overlap with my field, as you might expect. This is for a host of reasons too boring to list.<br /><br />When a worker gets SS disability, it becomes much harder to settle the case, so we have to pay attention to it.<br /><br />Even only ten years ago, Social Security disability was extraordinarily rare. We only saw it on cases with severely disabling conditions. Paralysis, amputations, etc.<br /><br />These days, not so much. Carpal tunnel, minor neck injuries, "fibromyalgia" (an entirely fake disease you get by reading a pamphlet), allergies, hurt feelings, bruised knees. All of these can get you Social Security now if you stick to it long enough.<br /><br />It's become clear to this insider that the main effect of Social Security (as well as workers comp), is not their respective original intents. It is to hide the real unemployment numbers. I am sure readers of this blog will be able to guess why successive administrations have wanted to hide the real unemployment rate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10211678928753190932013-04-10T10:21:31.592-07:002013-04-10T10:21:31.592-07:00The real scammer of SSI or SSDI are those who are ...The real scammer of SSI or SSDI are those who are also working under the table at the same time. Scamming taxpayers both ways.<br /><br />So what percentage of SSI and SSDI are doing this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30659842274125535652013-04-10T07:11:17.705-07:002013-04-10T07:11:17.705-07:00Well factory work in both California and Arizona i...Well factory work in both California and Arizona is mainly Mexican and few people speak that good of English. In fact call centers are more American few foreign born compared to working in a Factory. I got can from Factory work much faster because I don't have the ability to work with my hands. Seom Call centers make 40,000 if you work for the Telephone companies and are union.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85751150718902300492013-04-09T16:58:52.870-07:002013-04-09T16:58:52.870-07:00@Chicago: "Not much to look forward to for t...@Chicago: "Not much to look forward to for the rest of one's life, just waiting for a once-a-month check in the amount of between $750-1200."<br /><br />Right, how do these people live? An old family friend has had debilitating arthritis in both hands her whole adult life. Her hands are curled up, crooked, and painful. She's been on SSDI her whole adult life. She collects a mere $400 per month.<br /><br />It hardly seems worth it to scam SSDI, and it's a two+ year process of lawyers, hearings and denials before one gets accepted, if one gets accepted. The opportunity cost is pretty high, but I guess not for those with no better alternative. or that are just plain lazy.E. Rekshunnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7469162303558012022013-04-09T11:10:45.461-07:002013-04-09T11:10:45.461-07:00Will you admit that it is not just the liberal yup...<i><br />Will you admit that it is not just the liberal yuppies that are on 'the other side' but also the multi millionaires, the zillionaires and the billionaires that are our <br />enemies?<br /></i><br /><br />There is a word for those people, you know.<br /><br />Democrat donors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40372965076604180632013-04-09T10:48:07.656-07:002013-04-09T10:48:07.656-07:00Throw in the avalanche of autistics starting to hi...Throw in the avalanche of autistics starting to hit 18 and you've got a real problem.Dutch Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02687679491743923216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78664897723775503352013-04-09T09:48:12.660-07:002013-04-09T09:48:12.660-07:00The various government disability schemes, includi...<i>The various government disability schemes, including veterans, are becoming welfare for White people.</i><br /><br />Unfortunately when Congress goes to clean this up the pendulum will swing the other way. People who actually belong on disability won't be able to get it or will have to spend energy they don't have jumping though a lot of extra hoops.Bob Loblawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11081916786770290968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42689382044985955332013-04-09T09:19:50.103-07:002013-04-09T09:19:50.103-07:00Pink Arrow Gal said...
Will you please admit this...<i>Pink Arrow Gal said...<br /><br />Will you please admit this, steve? </i><br /><br />Protip: Showing up with a misleading name and stock photo, then switching to another fake name and photo when you get called out, and then, after you get clocked the second time, making up another fake name and yet another stolen photo does not create a rock solid base from which to repeatedly accuse the blog host of dishonesty.<br /><br />As to the actual post: there is a good chance that more people are disabled now. Diabetes, obesity, and sedentary lifestyles coupled with the occassional bout of high impact, high contact activity results in more acute injuries. Super expensive medical care means a lot of people can't get an injury treated just because they don't want to be crippled.<br /><br />After getting crippled, jumping through all the hoops to get treatment is hard for healthy people. Doing it through constant, screaming pain is practically impossible. robnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-115295752245825182013-04-09T09:11:17.490-07:002013-04-09T09:11:17.490-07:00Commander Banes said...
Graphs like this are ...<br />Commander Banes said...<br /><br /><i> Graphs like this are really misleading. A casual viewing (which is all that most people in zombieland would give it) gives the impression of a massive drop, whereas if you look at the numbers its quite modest, from ~67 to 63 or so. A graph showing the entire plot 1-100, or even let' say 1-70 to capture the workforce, would barely look like a small dip.</i><br /><br />Well, on the other hand, if you graphed unemployment like that, on a graph from 1-100%, an increase from 4% to 8% wouldn't look like much either. Only the Great Depression would look like much.<br /><br />Labor force participation doesn't move around much, in general. But, relative to the amount it generally moves around, the drop in, say, prime age male labor force participation from 1970-today is huge. Though it would not look huge on a 1-100% chart.Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10106711470374183502013-04-09T09:11:08.380-07:002013-04-09T09:11:08.380-07:00The most chilling book I've read recently is &...The most chilling book I've read recently is "Race Against the Machine". The authors present the case that the US economy is not in a cyclical recession but that we are at the beginning of a new and fundamentally different kind of economy.<br /><br />They point out that the machines are producing much of the wealth today and have been for some thirty years. Corporations increasingly don't need human workers to produce products. So after the short sharp shock in 2007-8 we went into recovery but a jobless recovery. Companies bought new equipment but they did not hire new workers.<br /><br />Recessions are valuable. During the good times, businesses invest in marginal activities. When the not-so-good times come they cut back on their mistakes. <br /><br />Human labor may be a mistake.<br /><br />Albertosaurus Pat Boylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477950851915567863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10348510971196879262013-04-09T08:47:15.740-07:002013-04-09T08:47:15.740-07:00Anonymous @7:23, that's exactly what I meant i...Anonymous @7:23, that's exactly what I meant in the Margaret Thatcher thread.FWGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-11388567889076186052013-04-09T08:26:19.223-07:002013-04-09T08:26:19.223-07:00>Will you please admit this, steve?<
All ki...>Will you please admit this, steve?<<br /><br />All kinds of people want Steve to like them.<br /><br />>scum villages<<br /><br />I want to move to Amsterdam now (read the linked story above). Why can't we have this idea in the US? Oh that's right. "Racism." The single most dispiriting word in any language.<br /><br />Were other set-aside areas in history prompted by the same kind of problems?Davidhttp://david-passingparade2.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-82846164187926306652013-04-09T08:24:26.703-07:002013-04-09T08:24:26.703-07:00jody said...
obama has driven the US labor fo...<br />jody said...<br /><br /><i> obama has driven the US labor force participation rate all the way back to where it was in 1979! now that's a recovery - of women back to the kitchen. make me a sandwich!</i><br /><br />Except <a href="http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2013/01/labor-force-participation-rate-update.html" rel="nofollow">the decline in participation has been concentrated among men,</a> not women.Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45495359906401662013-04-09T08:16:59.046-07:002013-04-09T08:16:59.046-07:00Whiskey said...
To quote Duran Duran
Wow.<br />Whiskey said...<br /><br /> <i>To quote Duran Duran</i><br /><br /><br />Wow.Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63938612244368815472013-04-09T08:00:04.491-07:002013-04-09T08:00:04.491-07:00Once considered backwaters, these Sunbelt cities a...Once considered backwaters, these Sunbelt cities are quietly achieving a critical mass of well-educated residents. They are also becoming major magnets for immigrants. Over the past decade, the largest percentage growth in foreign-born population has occurred in sunbelt cities, led by Nashville, which has doubled its number of immigrants, as have Charlotte and Raleigh. During the first decade of the 21st century, Houston attracted the second-most new, foreign-born residents, some 400,000, of any American city—behind only much larger New York and slightly ahead of Dallas-Ft. Worth, but more than three times as many as Los Angeles. According to one recent Rice University study, Census data now shows that Houston has now surpassed New York as the country’s most racially and ethnically diverse metropo Another reason why Texas will have problems with the Republican Party in the future. Houston is the Los Angeles of the 1980's. And Texians blame liberal whites from California for their shifts when its a lot of foreign born heading to Houston.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85882384384884263672013-04-09T07:39:58.269-07:002013-04-09T07:39:58.269-07:00Graphs like this are really misleading. A casual v...<i>Graphs like this are really misleading. A casual viewing (which is all that most people in zombieland would give it) gives the impression of a massive drop, whereas if you look at the numbers its quite modest, from ~67 to 63 or so. A graph showing the entire plot 1-100, or even let' say 1-70 to capture the workforce, would barely look like a small dip.</i><br /><br />Is a 15-year downward trend merely a "blip"? Is a four percentage point exodus from the labor force--amounting to 12-14 million people--really "quite modest"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-15006787674857755732013-04-09T07:35:45.428-07:002013-04-09T07:35:45.428-07:00Our client, a major Lotion and fragrance Manufactu...Our client, a major Lotion and fragrance Manufacturer located in Huntington Beach is seeking Assemblers who can do repetitive<br /> work on a production line.<br /> Previous experience working in a production environment is important.<br /> Will be putting caps on bottles and packaging products off of an assembly line.<br /> Must be able to speak and understand directions in English.<br /> Bilingual in English and Spanish is preferred but not required.<br /><br /> Qualified applicants should be able to work while standing, complete repetitive hand movements and have a sense of urgency and <br />initiative. Being on-time and dependable is a MUST.<br /> <br />Hours are Monday through Friday 7 am - 3:30 pm.<br /> <br />Pay rate: $8/hr.<br /><br /> Positions are temporary for 3-5 days a week, but there is a possibility of hire for the right work performance <br />and positive attitude.<br /><br /> Please send resume for review if available for interview, attention:MEL <br />Pre-employment drug screen and background may be required. <br />• Location: Huntington Beach, CA<br /> • Compensation: $8.00/HR<br /> •Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.<br /> •Please, no phone calls about this job!<br /> •Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.<br /> <br /><br />Posting ID: 3725692834<br /><br />Posted: 2013-04-05, 5:13PM PDT<br /><br /><br />Lots of Mexicans for the job need some engligh but if they can't always get english they will get spanish. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59278207969594292012013-04-09T07:25:18.825-07:002013-04-09T07:25:18.825-07:00Whiskley you live in Orange County about 50 percen...Whiskley you live in Orange County about 50 percent of manufactoring jobs there are done by Hispanics thee and Mexico goes a lot of car manufactoing so Blacks do have the skills to do manufactoring.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24532493669457215662013-04-09T07:22:57.970-07:002013-04-09T07:22:57.970-07:00Oh, and the high demand for call center workers co...Oh, and the high demand for call center workers comes from extremely high turnover. Combine low wages, a soul-destroying job, the fact that it requires no skill so anyone can try it, and the fact that the workers are predominately people who change jobs often for various reasons -- women, young people, and immigrants -- and you have a job that's as easy to drop as it is to pick up.<br /><br />I don't know about you, but when a business has had a "help wanted" sign in the window for so long it's getting faded, I don't see that as a sign of health or a good place to work.Cail Corishevhttp://cailcorishev.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56761207995707633902013-04-09T07:02:16.161-07:002013-04-09T07:02:16.161-07:001) Buchanan obviously is talking about factory job...1) Buchanan obviously is talking about factory jobs <em>before</em> they filled up with Mexican women. Obviously that happened sooner in some places than others.<br /><br />2) Working in a call center has to be destructive to one's soul. I try to be polite to telemarketers, I really do -- I know they're just doing their jobs and trying to make a living like the rest of us -- but it's hard to sometimes. Usually it means saying, "No thanks, goodbye," and hanging up on them. I can't imagine sitting there annoying people for eight hours a day. Taking incoming calls, as in customer service, would be better, but then you're dealing with people who are already irritated. A factory job may not be exciting, but I'd take it over manning a phone any day.Cail Corishevhttp://cailcorishev.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85885055644201182912013-04-09T06:53:14.132-07:002013-04-09T06:53:14.132-07:00But even though Senator Graham has been a long-tim...But even though Senator Graham has been a long-time amnesty supporter, the amnesty groups were not impressed. ”We’re very concerned about what we’re hearing,” said Mee Moua, president of the Asian American Justice Center. (NBCnews.com, Apr.3, 2013)”The elimination of any of the categories, particularly the sibling or married children categories, is going to have a disproportionate impact on the Asian American community, in addition to the Latino community and the African-Caribbean community as we’re striving to allow those groups to reunite with their families.” (Id.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43742273532590166832013-04-09T05:59:09.782-07:002013-04-09T05:59:09.782-07:00Well, I work in a a factory 20 years ago and you d...Well, I work in a a factory 20 years ago and you didn't make big bucks there like Pat Buchanan states. Mainly the factory had Mexican women since they have skills with their hands. Granted, retail can be parttime but factory jobs in Arizona don't pay any better than call center jobs. And actually there is more deamnd for call center jobs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com