Originally Posted By: redkgb
I got to say this article means a couple of different things to me. For one, I can see the draw of losing the means to support yourself, and your family, thru no fault of your own, and to have a system, so easy to step into, that allows you swallow your pride, to live as your allways have lived, and not work for anything. The draw is easy, it speaks to you with a mouth sweeten by milk and huney. Just give in, let us provide this for you, and you no longer need to sweat in the sun, freeze in the dead of night on shift work... Yes this could bring in and break the most strongly willed man.

Reforming the system will not fix the underlying problem. The under lying problem from my point of view, is/are people not feeling they have a way out of where they are at. They feel traped by thier surrondings, either due to the need to provide for thier family, living close to where thier family is, or not given a chance to see what choices they have before them. People must feel what they are doing provides something, that could be just about anything from a future for thier childeren, to providing for a retirment in the sun and shore. To work just for the sake of working will not cut it. We as a group must make a change to the underlying problem, and no reform of the system will do it alone.

Now from my personal stand point. I am disabled, my spine is fucked, it slipping in places, compacted in others and fused in a v shape in others. I live in pain every day, I take 7 different types of painkillers and muscle relaxers. I on avg take 21 pills a day. I still get up every morning, go to work, for the purpose of providing for my family, to feel a measure of self worth, for not letting life keep me down, for the ability to spit in Gods eye for fucking me over. I am driven, not of sound mind at times, but driven non the less.

I tell you all this not for pity, not to feel sorry for redkgb, but to understand that I know I more then qualify for disability. I would make a couple thousand more per month then what I make now. To say this program speaks to me is an understatment, the chance to play with my kids more often, to fish from the bank, the things could be endless.

We must change the underlying problem, if we dont, throwwing money at it will never fix it.

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