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tsa: Feb 3, 2014

Lyesh posted:

Sure it does. If you can't stand up for more than ten minutes at a time, for example, you can't do a lot of factory jobs. If you can't lift a hundred pounds, good luck working in construction. And if you don't have training for jobs that ARE doable with these kinds of limitations, then those jobs are not available to you.

If you're going to go full-out with weird any occupation stuff, you're essentially saying that people with ALS should just get prestigious professorships in theoretical physics. It works GREAT for Stephen Hawking, after all.

And the reason that I frame it that way is that the article is extremely slanted against the fact that without SSI or SSDI, people experience even more hardship than they already do. If you want to augment the program, sure. Go for it. But the problem isn't with SSDI or SSI, it's with the numerous factors in the US that have removed as many social safety nets as possible.

You can be a cashier with any of those problems mentioned, and as esquilax points out you the very first thing is "they have a physical or mental condition that prevents them from engaging in any "substantial gainful activity" ("SGA")" which certainly includes jobs like cashiering among many other common jobs. Your ALS example is simply not very good, and is pretty much equivalent to saying 99.999% of americans are disabled because they don't qualify for the NBA.

Basically you are arguing for increased welfare or GMI and things of that nature, which is perfectly reasonable. But you aren't disabled simply because you can't do some jobs, at least according to the stated rules.

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