August 15, 2007

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1. Did anyone else read the letter to the editor in today’s paper?? He has some valid points I believe. Anyone else agree with him?

   Comment by billy the kid — August 15, 2007 @ 5:41 pm

2. I ran into a friend today , He just recieved 4 pints of blood . he has bladder cancer and still has a tumor that has to be removed . He has a disease that disfigures his entire body with golfball size lumps . He has about 15 surgeries a year because they can root into muscle and bone and cause pain . His eyesight is very poor . He is a single parent . HE HAS BEEN TURNED DOWN FOR DISABILITY SEVERAL TIMES . He tries to work through the pain , but has been struggling the last 2 years . This is the best candidate I have ever seen for disability . I am not a big supporter of the way govt. money is handed out . In his case I continue to be amazed that he is denied . We have a problem at DSS when someone like this is turned down , But someone in a nice car with freshly done nails is accepted . I thought America was supposed to help those who needed help . Regardless of how you look . Vance county DSS needs a good reworking , new fraud investigators and a much smaller budget . On the COO . Some people don’t seem to understand whose money is going into the landlords pockets . Govt. money comes from taxpayers , Govt. money pays for section 8 programs . In other words , taxpayer money goes in their pocket , they could care less who they rent to . The trough will always be full

   Comment by Timothy — August 15, 2007 @ 8:11 pm

3. How right you are Timothy.

   As I have said many times ,there is profit in poverty and we have some here in Vance County that are having to get bigger milk buckets because they are sucking on the cash cow.

   Comment by Robert L. Duke — August 16, 2007 @ 2:47 pm

4. Scary, I keep finding myself agreeing with Robert Duke. And Timothy as well.
   There is plentyof money in poverty, and precious little of it goes to poor people.
   Keep in mind that the system is set up to be inequitable ON PURPOSE. Keep the little guy scrambling for crumbs and at each others’ throats and worried about why I deserve this and didn’t get it and the other guy is an SOB and he did get it — and as long as everyone is complaining about the other guy no one is looking at the big picture and who is really raking in all the profits.
   Everyone should have a decent education, no matter what their parents are like. Everyone should have access to health care, no matter what their personal habits are. Everyone should have access to minimally decent housing, no matter what their personal morals.
   Until we figure out that we are all in this together — no matter how much we don’t like somebody else — we’re all screwed. And the slumlords and povery pimps are laughing all the way to the bank as they watch the peons squabble about who is the most moral and therefore deserves the crumbs.

   Comment by Infidel — August 16, 2007 @ 4:17 pm

5. DSS (Department of Social Services) has nothing to do with disability. You must mean SSA (Social Security Administration) which handles disability claims. However we have a VERY serious problem with both in this county and nation wide. When we talk about no justice, now there is no justice in either of those systems. It’s almost as if they toss names up once a year and see whose name happens to fall in the hat. Then you are approved!

   Comment by Mudball — August 16, 2007 @ 8:43 pm

6. I am sorry about this error . Disability is a function of the S.S. office . The other benifits all fall under DSS . This is a person that needs help . I help him when I can , But it is not enough . I wish I could help him more . I just can’t afford it . I am not asking for anyone to start a fund drive or anything else . It is just amazing to me that someone like him has to keep fighting for this .

   Comment by Timothy — August 16, 2007 @ 10:17 pm

7. Timothy, I don’t think that anyone gets Social Security benefits without an attorney.

   Comment by Beautiful Dreamer — August 17, 2007 @ 6:22 am

8. #7-Disability cases have been awarded without a lawyer,
   I know of five such cases. I guess it rarely happens and most of the time the individual is at deaths door or die very soon after receiving disability.
   #2-I understand your frustration for your friend, my husband had to stop working at a very early age and he had to get a lawyer to get disability, I was told to go to the DSS while we waited out a year with the lawyer. Yes, I agree the system needs a complete over haul so that people that really need help can get help.

   Comment by grandma — August 18, 2007 @ 7:25 am

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