I think society’s been like that all over the world for a looooooooooong time.
I’ve worked for managers that had only four people to manage and she musta thought she was the Queen’a something! It doesn’t take a lot of power to corrupt many folks.
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I got turned down for SSI and am not going to appeal it. I also got turned down for cash benefits from MI-DHHS.
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I had a 1-hour webinar on Medicaid/Medicare/SS for older disabled adults today. One point they really stressed: you WILL get turned down. You have to appeal. That’s just how it works.
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The three people I know who went through that process all had to appeal it. Took my mom like two whole years of appeals, and they basically just said well that’s normal, everyone gets turned down. Something like 60% of appeals get approved though. So you just gotta push. Similar with my daughter and my friend.
If you don’t want to, I can’t blame you for not wanting to deal with all that. But please make sure that it’s an actual choice, and not just giving up or defaulting. They just assume people will give up. And for people already struggling, it is so much easier to give up than dealing with all that.
I think you should keep pushing. Understand if you don’t want to, but it’s kinda just how the system works. And yeah, that sucks.
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I’m just so very, very tired of dealing with all the broken systems we have going on here.
And I realize they are partly designed to screen out the scammers as well as to discourage people like me. But a job-list from 1977???!!! Being told flat-out that one doesn’t qualify, even after begging and crying, et al, and while toting around an oxygen tank???
I don’t want anything to do with a system that is in such major disrepair. In my weird way of thinking, that would make me an accomplice to this travesty. I don’t want my fate decided - once more - by someone whom will never see or talk with me in person and whose credentials I won’t be able to check on.
I can’t stress it enough - I’m tired.
Addendum. Like, John Coffey tired. Like, Madeline Kahn tired (except for below the waist, i don’t think it’s quite kaput yet).
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I see Reagan, but folks need to remember he ran CA as prep for POTUS - and that Nancy was his motor for the climb up as a Republican, I can’t stress that enough. Nixon was a Quaker, allegedly. But it was Ronnie who found out Xtians would pay for him to run if he did what they wanted.
If they want a theocracy, let 'em take over Epstein’s island and turn that into their own li’l dream world. They’ll destroy themselves, more’n likely. Or send them to any number of countries east of the US and Africa, where theocracies have been the style since…well, before Christ, for sure!
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But which day? I mean, they’re pretty backed up with the violence they’re carrying on with now, as it is.
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Either he’s really dumb, or he’s really-really dumb.
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So, some of what is described here is mercantilism? And as for “Marxist”…am I missing something there? Also, these guys make me think of the liberal elite of the late 1890s-early 1900s who sat around and talked about revolution and who were waiting for the “spark” to get the working class off its ass and do the actual revolting.
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Headline is: North Carolina Republican urges supporters to challenge voters with “Hispanic-sounding" names
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The spirit of Don Rickles is working within Tim Walz - HALLELUJAH!
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Grrr…if only I was a Level 3 or higher mutant; I’d butter his necktie for sure!!!
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