August
14th, 2014
Disability
scamming has always been a subject near and dear to my heart.
America
today, finds itself awash with fit and well-fed young people on SSI and other
forms of “disability” for, in effect, “anxiety disorders and bad
backs.”
Reminds
me of what I presciently said about Marxism when I was but a mere slip of a
lad, “When you work each according to his abilities and reward each
according to his needs, all you wind up with is a nation filled with gluttonous
citizens with chronic bad backs.”
Our
court system has been rewarding scammers for decades now and the costs are
starting to kill us.
PTSD
was once called “shell shock” and TODAY, as in yesteryear, REAL sufferers of
actual PTSD require a lifetime of institutionalized care. They cannot hold down
jobs, balance check books, walk down the street in daylight, however, today our
courts have chosen to reward scammers who may actually be suffering from very
real “anxiety disorders,” by allowing them to be diagnosed with PTSD.
That’s
a scam, plain and simple. At least it WILL BE when the government gets around
to shutting down this loophole, remaking the standards for that claim, or
setting them back to their earlier default positions.
This
past January 7th, the New York Daily News reported;
“Eighty
greedy NYPD and FDNY retirees, whose departments suffered devastating losses on
9/11, collected millions of dollars in disability-pension benefits by
pretending they were at Ground Zero and suffered emotional trauma, authorities
said Tuesday.
“They
were among 106 alleged scammers arrested in a $400 million Social Security
rip-off — one of the largest in history — that also included city Correction
officers and a former Nassau County cop.
“Many
of them claimed they couldn’t sleep, do simple arithmetic or even leave their
own home — but investigators found that they’d been piloting helicopters,
riding Jet Skis, teaching karate, deep-sea fishing and even running
half-marathons.
“Up
to 1,000 people could be involved in the scam, “and I can say that ultimately,
the estimates add up to $400 million,” Vance said, noting the investigation is
far from over.
The
Post first revealed in 2010 that two dozen retired cops were under
investigation for claiming mental illness to receive Social Security disability
payments while still holding gun permits.
Their
disability applications “indicated that they were incapable of owning
firearms,” said NYPD Chief of Internal Affairs Charles Campisi.
“However,
when we dug deeper and we checked the forms that they filed with the Police
Department in order to get pistol permits, they indicated that they were of
sound mind. So we had a discrepancy.”
Did
you see that?! “Up to 1,000 people could be involved in the scam!”
And
these are Police and Officers and firefighters who have been documented in
numerous cases of going “above and beyond the call of duty” at various
incidents. You see how quickly, the honored hero becomes the “greedy
pensioner”? Count on a LOT more of this, because so many of us have succumbed
to the incentives for claiming disability status.
ONE
very real problem is that so many such government workers feel entitled...they
feel “they’re OWED” something extra and a tax-free disability pension nicely
fits the bill.
A
few years earlier dozens of LIRR workers wrangled disability pensions from a
handful of unscrupulous physicians, one of whom has been sentenced to 8 years
in prison for his part in the estimated $1 BILLION scam!
The “dirty
little secret” of Giuliani’s “Welfare Reform” was that as the welfare
rolls shrunk, the disability rolls exploded!
No
claim has been as abused and over-used as “PTSD.” Partly because the government
and some mental health professionals have allowed anxiety disorders to be
classified as PTSD...for now.
In
government work, ALL government work, “You’re the GOOD guy UNTIL they
make you the BAD guy.” That is, when an agency needs you to work a ton
of overtime, you’re a “team player,” by working the extra hours. When the
budget inevitably busts, the administration is going to blame…the lowly worker.
SAME
here, just as Captain Renault was “shocked to find
gambling going on in this establishment,” in the film Casablanca,
once the lid s blown off the extent of the PTSD claims over the past decade, a
LOT of yesterday’s heroes are going to wind up tomorrow’s villains.
I
know a lot of people are squeamish about such things, but the truth often does
hurt.
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