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wateroverfire
Jul 3, 2010

mugrim posted:

I'm kind of surprised with the relative absence of posts. Is SS Disability not juicy enough for people? We have a ton of Libertarians on this board who I assumed would be all too happy to debate the merits of a disability program, and a ton of lefties I assumed would be outraged by the insane wait times. Anyone have any insight on this?

Sure.

1) There are not a lot of libertarians on this board. There are some centrist liberals who get cast in that role and some trolls, but nobody who will say they think we shouldn't do SS Disability or gently caress THOSE POORS in a thread that isn't already terrible.

You wrote a good OP about an important topic that is fairly technical and isn't intensely partisan. Unless you get Fishmech involved it will be dead in a couple of weeks.

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wateroverfire
Jul 3, 2010

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Might be a good thread to move to ask/tell after discussion here dies down.

Yeah it'd probably do really well there.

OP, can you comment on whether SS disability serves as a backdoor long term unemployment insurance? ie: whether there is a way for people who can't get jobs because there are none but otherwise aren't disabled to get into the system?

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