Obama Covers Another 44 Million Americans Under Disabilities Act
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 5:37 AM
President Barack Obama signs an Executive Order to increase Federal employment of individuals with disabilities at an event commemorating the 20th anniversary of the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act, at the White House in Washington on July 26, 2010. (UPI/Kevin Dietsch)
There are 26 million Americans with diabetes.
There are at least 3 million Americans who suffer from epilepsy.
2.3 million Americans suffer from bipolar disorder.
More than 13 million Americans suffer from or have suffered from post traumatic stress disorder.
That’s at least 44 million Americans.
Barack Obama just allowed at least another 44 million Americans to be covered under the Disabilities Act including those Americans with diabetes, epilepsy, bipolar disorder and PTSD. Add that to the current number covered under the act and you have at least 84 million Americans who come under the American Disabilities Act. That’s more than one in four Americans who qualify as being disabled.
FOX News reported:
Millions of Americans may be disabled and not even know it, according to some legal experts.
That’s because sweeping new regulations from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission offer new guidelines on the issue of how to define “disability” under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The ADA, originally passed in 1990 and updated by Congress in 2008, originally defined disability as “a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity.”
When a worker satisfies the definition, employers must provide reasonable accommodations. For years, employers and employees have clashed over who truly qualifies for the sometimes-costly modifications to workplace duties and schedules. Attorney Condon McGlothlen says the new regulations could have a profound impact on that debate.
“Before, perhaps 40 million people were covered by the ADA. That number will increase significantly,” McGlothlen told Fox News. “Some people might even say that a majority of Americans are covered as disabled under the law.”
This is the kind of decision that you would expect from someone who was determined to destroy the US economy. No wonder the state-run media is mostly ignoring this news.
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#1AMERICAN commented:
Does that include the entire ODUMBO administration as they are mentaly disabled?
MWTexas commented:
According to the American Diabetes Association, compared to the general population, African Americans are disproportionately affected by diabetes:
•3.7 million, or 14.7 percent of all African Americans aged 20 years or older have diabetes.
•African Americans are 1.8 times more likely to have diabetes as non Hispanic whites.
•25 percent of African Americans between the ages of 65 and 74 have diabetes.
•1 in 4 African American women over 55 years of age has diabetes.
According to the Epilepsy Foundation, more than 350,000 of the over 3 million Americans with epilepsy, or some 12 percent, are African-American. African-Americans are more likely to be diagnosed with epilepsy than Caucasians
According to Mental Health America most African Americans with bipolar disorder are going undiagnosed and untreated.
Several factors have contributed to African Americans not receiving help for bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses. Some of the reasons are:
A mistrust of health professionals, based in part on historically higher-than-average institutionalization of African Americans with mental illness; and on previous mistreatments, like such tragic events as the Tuskegee syphilis study.
Cultural barriers between many doctors and their patients.
Reliance on family and religious community, rather than mental health professionals, during times of emotional distress.
A tendency to talk about physical problems, rather than discuss mental symptoms, or to mask symptoms with substance abuse or other medical conditions.
Socioeconomic factors which can limit access to medical and mental health care. About 25 percent of African Americans do not have health insurance.
Continued misunderstanding and stigma about mental illness.
According to the American Psychiatic Association the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is estimated to range from 9 to 12 percent in the general population. These figures likely underestimate the prevalence among residents of urban, economically disadvantaged areas, because this population is at higher risk than the general population of exposure to traumatic events. This greater risk of victimization among urban residents can be attributed to a variety of factors, including low socioeconomic status and high rates of violence in the inner city. Despite the potential high rate of PTSD in the urban population, trauma is likely underrecognized and PTSD is often underdiagnosed These findings are compounded by the possibility that mental illness, particularly affective disorders, tends to be underdiagnosed in the African-American community.
Any questions who this broad new “medical bill” for the rest of us is really intended to benefit?
Militant Conservative commented:
Socialism or Cloward and Piven or both?
powder is dry
Dave-O commented:
the flood of American manufacturing jobs overseas will continue. The Obama Administration has made it clear that the US is not a good place for business.
RedBeard commented:
I have an allergy to cats. I demand my rights (and my free stuff) as a person with a disability.
JT commented:
My Fiancee is diabetic and if anybody thinks they can have a job when they could possibly black out and drop to the floor in a coma then they are unsure of the “capitalist” system that would deny anybody that job to begin with. She is already “disabled” and her type of diabetes is extreme but there really are certain times when some of these illnesses are truly debilitating and should be where our compassion lies granting SSI. Not to drug addicts and people who can work in some capacity, safely and securely.
vagabond trader commented:
Unfortunately your fiance is truly disabled but the current SSI system is designed as a fallback for the non productive wastrels of society.It is a feature not a bug.
dunce commented:
An old scam used in minority communities is to tell your children to act crazy in school to get them classified as mentally disabled to qualify for what they commonlly called “crazy checks”. Do not expect to ever see racial statistics on any of this, the truth must be suppressed. With obama care ,we get crazy panels and death panels.
Warthog commented:
Ah, I see that Obama is now providing a present for his trial-lawyer friends. This will do nothing to improve people’s lives but will only provide pretense for lawsuits.
I can see it now…
“What? How dare you bring powdered doughnuts into the same building as me, don’t you know I’m diabetic? I shall see you in court! All you doughnut eaters will have to do that outside from now on with the smokers. The workplace will now be sugar-free as well as smoke free.”
More Hopn’change coming at’cha
Andreas K. commented:
I don’t count diabetes as disability. A well trained diabetic is not disabled. This is bullsh*t.
JT, type 1 or 2? I guess she’s young, so it’s very likely type 1 (usually young people are type 1, but there are cases where young people are type 2, type 2 is rather harmless compared to type 2.) And even there, once a diabetic is properly trained, follows the rules, makes sure he does what he’s supposed to do, then there is absolutely no risk involved. Without proper training, etc, it’s a different story.
One of the neighbors of my grandmother was diabetic type 2. She never listened to what the doctors said. Didn’t follow any rules. She continued to eat like she didn’t have diabetis (in her case that meant extremely fat cakes and pies, stuff I turn away from even without being diabetic.) In the end they had to amputate her legs. Step by step. Because she just wouldn’t listen. And then she died. This is what happens to diabetics who don’t follow the therapy and the rules that come attached to it.
I have a colleague who’s a diabetic type 1. You woldn’t know he is one. He’s perfectly trained and knows what to do. He’s working his 40 hours like the rest of us. No issues at all. I’m going to tell him that, in the US, he’d be disabled now. I’m pretty sure he’s going say something along the lines of “dumbass Americans”.
Epilepsy. Same thing. The fallout can be dealt with. There is medication. An epi-patient on this medication is NOT disabled.
This is a load of horse manure. This is the nanny state.
Bi-polar and PTSD… Stuff like this was never really an issue until the psychologists became mainstream. PTSD I understand if a soldier saw his best buddy getting blown apart. If a fireman sees his comrades die. Sure. But in the general population? How many people witness actual traumatic events? Not many. Most are just whiny b*tches. Bi-polar… give me a break. If I would go to a psychologist or psychiatrist, they’d diagnose me with similar things. Bi-polar maybe, paranoia, maybe even PTSD, since I’ve seen some really ugly sh*t as voluntary paramedic.
But I’m not going there because those bastards killed a friend of mine. He was in for depression. 6 years. Did everything they tossed at him. In the end, he blew his brains out because not one of those psycholiars would listen to him. I blame them for his death. He sent me an SMS saying “thank you”. He was quite sentimental at times, a bit cheesy too, but alright. He would do things like that every now and then, so I didn’t think much of it, since I knew him. Two days later I was told that he had killed himself. Thank you psychiartrists and psychologists.
I avoid those buggers like the plague.
Andreas K. commented:
“type 2 is rather harmless compared to type 2″ shall read “type 2 is rather harmless compared to type 1″
Joe College commented:
This is classic Cloward–Piven. Overload the system with seemingly well-meaning entitlements that cannot possibly be met — without collapsing the system.
listingstarboard commented:
Just imagine how many more handicapped spaces will be needed and motorized grocery carts!!
Joe College commented:
Sorry to go off this very important topic but … guess who’s governing Libya now:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/28/us-libya-oil-rebels-idUSTRE72R6X620110328
“(Reuters) – The United States on Monday gave a green light to sales of Libyan crude oil from rebel-held territory…”
FreakyBoy commented:
Who wants pie?
greg commented:
Obama’s just corrupted ADA from being a “hand up to being a hand out”. Before ADA the employer/disabled relationship was based solely on good will between parties. Enacting ADA established some basic parameters for making accommodation reasonable restoring dignity to the process was there was none. By now covering 25% of the population, the employer will have to back away to accomplishing the minimum just to stay in business.
Observe the competition for handicap parking places. As doctors write more scripts to folks with minor disabilities the available space becomes crowded out to the point where wheel chair people have to park at the far end of the lot. That is the corruption that ONE WTF has enacted.
For a seriously handicapped person, neither SSI OR SS disability is available until the person has worked enough quarters to qualify under the SS rules. This ADA expansion just made it more difficult for a serious handicap person to work enough to meet the minimum number of quarters
Pat the First commented:
There are 2 types of diabetes. Type I is the worse. There is nothing that can be done about it. You are born with it. It will eventually kill you unless you die of an accident or some other catastrophic illness takes you first. My nephew has it. He has to be very careful, but I don’t see it being a disability.
Type II comes from being over-weight. It is curable. It is not a disability. It is caused by your own actions. It is like 99% of all lung cancer. It is caused by your actions. No one has to live with Type II diabetes. You have to just cut down your weight and eat better.
theBuckWheat commented:
This in effect reverse-socializes the cost of dealing with an employee whose condition causes low productivity or a high amount of management attention. BHO declares that these people are now members of a privileged class and instead of having to bear the costs of their own condition, the employer must bear it.
By their own rules, if I have a job opening, not only will 1 in 4 applicants be “disabled”, but along with this designation comes an increased liability of discrimination should I reject any of them. Should I hire one, the burden of proof about any “reasonable accommodation” I might attempt to make falls on me. Any disabled employee who disagrees about such accommodation can call in free experts from government to second guess me while I have to defend my actions at my own expense.
And we wonder why employers are expanding their overseas operations instead of increasing hiring here in the US.
Steve Burri commented:
I am a healthy taxpayer who works full time. As a minority…
Arch commented:
When I retired from the USAF, I got a call from the VA who wanted me to take another physical. They were trying to get me classified as partially disabled. If you are 50% disabled, half your retirement pay is tax exempt. They told me that the USAF had more money allocated to the VA for disabled retirees than they could spend and that because I had been wounded in Vietnam, it would be easy to get my paperwork through the system. As much as I hate the IRS, I refused. I wasn’t disabled and it would be dishonest to claim otherwise. The guy said I wasn’t being a team player and that others later would be denied because I didn’t file a claim.
daryl commented:
Yeah, buckle down. Work harder. Get a second job if you have to.
“Cause ‘fore this’ll woik, “Evuhbidy gots tuh git sum skin in thuh game”
CT commented:
WOW I finally qualify for special treatment, I’ve been diabetic for fifteen years. Now my prick boss will have to give me some special treatment or else. I hope he will listen as I am self-employed.
CT commented:
#17 Pat the First
You have no idea what you are talking about with regards to diabetes, better you should refrain commenting on the subject.
RedBeard commented:
My family tree is full of diabetics (including two aunts, one uncle, and my father who died from the disease) and not one of them ever thought of asking for special treatment. They all just got on with life.
jomojava the infidel commented:
It was done by Executive Order.
It can be undone by Executive Order.
January 2013.
RedBeard commented:
Just a quick comment: Being overweight is a contributing factor to Type II diabetes, but cannot be called the cause.
greg commented:
And another perspective, if you are white and disabled do not expect help from the feds in pursuing a disability discrimination complaint. Last year at a popular national roadhouse restaurant where you get cracker with the meal my wife was verbally abused for using a scooter. Follow up with the restaurants home office only confirmed the corporate discrimination mentality. Two separate requests for assistance were sent to the US ADA discrimination office in Washington with no response.
listingstarboard commented:
Thats what happens when one race is brainwashed into believing they can not legitimately complain about another race.
rampart ranger commented:
Plus, add another 30 million who suffer from PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome)
Charlie commented:
So these guys can now compete in the special olympics?
bigred commented:
Andreas, this is rich. The only reason I’ve been unemployed since Jan. last year is about 7 years ago I had to go on insulin. My job moved just belw the state line after 22 years of employment there and reaching top of seniority. Even after insulin I could still drive truck 130,000+ miles a year and pull in 50-60k a year. But the federal gov. said I could not cross a state line because of insulin. I am 60 years old and would love to finish my driving career in a few years, but looks like I’m pretty much screwed. So Barry puts me under ADA as a diabetic but doesn’t change the DOT rules that cost me my job to begin with. There are a lot of guys in this predicament who would just like to work.
And Pat, stick to playing a doctor on TV.
Joanne commented:
Obama needs some way to document those 84 million he will terminate first – the expendable.
Joanne commented:
If you want to get off insulin, use Usana Nutritionals – it works; there are many people who have had their lives changed with it.
Joanne commented:
Andreas K. – bipolar is a huge problem, and they can be very dangerous people to themselves and others.
Chris commented:
Gee, thanks O Great Obamster, Your Royal (pain-in-the-###) High(and-mighty)ness.
(From a site found via Google search for “NFL atheletes diabetes”)
“There are actually a number of athletes who have reached the professional level while living with diabetes. The NFL boasts three such athletes in Jay Leeuwenburg, Mike Echols, and Mike Sinclair. Both Leeuwenburg and Echols have type one diabetes. Players like Mike Sinclair, DE Philadelphia Eagles, face the same disease that affect tens of millions of Americans, Type two diabetes.”
Well then! That settles it!
Any day now we can expect to see news stories about whot these guys be suing the NFL for special consideration of their disability status, right?
Riiiiiiiiight…..
Sara B commented:
We’re all disabled now!
tarpon commented:
The move to disable all Americans. This is total BS …
EO, is this even Constitutional?
waicool commented:
Start looking for padded flooring and walls and no sharp corners in any new buildings or else we will all be dragged into court by the trial lawyers over this. hell, we may as well start putting free accessible dialysis equipment in new buildings, right next to the dual level water fountains and baby changing centers in those oversized spin-around bathrooms. Just wait until one of those strobe emergency lights goes off and the next epilectic victim starts freaking out, what’s a good building designer supposed to do?
PJ commented:
Cloward Piven on the march.
Also as offensive is the WOTC. http://www.doleta.gov/business/incentives/opptax/
Now convicted felons and welfare recipients as well as certain races go to the head of the line for jobs. When you get a temp you could be getting an embezzler just released from prison and you wouldn’t know it.
Gordo commented:
Finally! As a diabetic middle-aged male Caucasian with PTSD, it looks like I’m finally a member of a protected class. SWEET!
Just kidding. Why do we need to keep adding to the lists of people who get something free from the government. Actually, I already know the answer — buying votes.
S. Wolf commented:
How about covering the Cloward-Piven disability?
ElCee commented:
Type 2 diabetes is not necessarily caused by obesity, and it is not always curable.
There are several instances of diabetes in my family tree, and only one of them was even remotely overweight. One member was able to control his blood sugar levels by diet and exercise, everyone else had to use some sort of medication.
I have been told I have a 50/50 chance of developing diabetes, though @ 54 years old, I’m not particularly worried about it now.
My fear? I think this whole thing is another step to remove the privacy from your medical records. Right now, how does your employer know you have diabetes unless you tell them? Under Obamacare, and under these new rules, does that become part of your employment records? Will I not get hired in the future because I have diabetes in my family? Will diabetics be denied employment and medical care because they are “fat and caused it themselves”?
Brave new world.
Gordo commented:
By the way “Pat the First” doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about.
“Type II comes from being over-weight. It is curable. It is not a disability. It is caused by your own actions. It is like 99% of all lung cancer. It is caused by your actions. No one has to live with Type II diabetes. You have to just cut down your weight and eat better.”
As I previously posted, I’m Type II diabetic. My weight for most of my life (46 years) has never been over 200 pounds (not counting a 6 month period of depression where my weight went up to 225, and by that time my diagnosis was 6 years old).
(My height is 6′, weight is 195 and I walk and ride a bike)
Since my father was diabetic (also never overweight), I have taken great care to eat low-fat, health foods all my life (I NEVER drink sugared sodas). As a result, I was able to put off the diabetes for more years than my father did. He was insulin dependent at my age and I’m nowhere near that.
So, “Pat the First”, STFU.
Gordo commented:
#43 March 29, 2011 at 10:46 am
ElCee commented:
“Under Obamacare, and under these new rules, does that become part of your employment records?”
There is absolutely no way I would tell an employer about any medical condition I or my family have. There are too many ways that information can be misused.
RS commented:
Sounds like the tort lawyers’ full employment act.
All the more reason for ANY employer to resist the temptation to hire ANYONE.
contessa61 commented:
Pat is partially right.
a majority of type II people could be cured if they just lost weight.
Eponymous commented:
The requirements shouldn’t be onerous for companies, Michael Eastman, director of labor law policy with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a Washington-based group representing more than 3 million companies, said today in an interview.
Roscoe commented:
I’m attitudinally disabled. Where do I pick up my check?
WannabeAnglican commented:
Hey! I may be disabled now! All aboard the gravy train!
Gary commented:
Best exchange on Judge Judy:
– what is the nature of your disability?
– back problems
– and you have kids
– 3 your honor
–after your disability?
– yes your honor
– didn’t it hurt your back making 3 kids?
– yes your honor
Good grief!
A few years ago only a master strategist (like say El Rushbo) could see where all the pieces of this puzzle were going but today you’d have to be blind not to see the obvious pattern at work bankrupting the system, putting in the debt of and at the mercy of other nations, pumping our money out to other countries, pushing our industry away, enrolling the whole populaiton on a broken welfare system, disincentivizing home ownership, disincentivizing private charity, and generally taking more of the people pulling the cart off the job and putting them on the on the cart (while redefining how to count the number pulling and the number riding so that the number riding is always 9.9%).
A quick program idea to help with the budget deficit (besides the obvious “quit spending it, dumba……es):
Offer $1000 cash reward to any American who can produce photo or video evidence of a “disabled” person doing yard work, sports, or any other physcial activity that would prove they are scamming. The thousands would save millions!
Bob commented:
President Barack Obama is considering sweeping legislation that will provide new benefits for many Americans. The Americans With No Abilities Act is being hailed as a major legislative goal by advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills or ambition.
“Roughly 50 percent of Americans do not possess the competence and drive necessary to carve out a meaningful role for themselves in society,” said California Sen. Barbara Boxer. “We can no longer stand by and allow People of Inability (POI) to be ridiculed and passed over. With this legislation, employers will no longer be able to grant special favors to a small group of workers, simply because they have some idea of what they are doing.”
In a Capitol Hill press conference, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pointed to the success of the U.S. Postal Service, which has a long-standing policy of providing opportunity without regard to performance. Approximately 74 percent of postal employees lack any job skills, making this agency the single largest U.S. employer of Persons With No Ability.
Private-sector industries with good records of non-discrimination against the inept include retail sales (72 percent), the airline industry (68 percent), and home-improvement warehouse stores (65 percent). At the state government level, the Department of Motor Vehicles also has an excellent record of hiring Persons with No Ability (63 percent).
Under the Americans With No Abilities Act, more than 25 million mid-level positions will be created, with important-sounding titles but little real responsibility, thus providing an illusory sense of purpose and performance.
Mandatory non-performance-based raises and promotions will be given so as to guarantee upward mobility for even the most unremarkable employees. The legislation provides substantial tax breaks to corporations that promote a significant number of Persons of Inability (POI) into middle-management positions, and give a tax credit to small and medium-sized businesses that agree to hire one clueless worker for every two talented hires.
Finally, the Americans With No Abilities Act contains tough new measures to make it more difficult to discriminate against the non-abled, banning, for example, discriminatory interview questions such as, “Do you have any skills or experience that relate to this job?”
“As a non-abled person, I can’t be expected to keep up with people who have something going for them,” said Mary Lou Gertz, who lost her position as a lug-nut twister at the GM plant in Flint, Mich., due to her inability to remember righty tighty, lefty loosey. “This new law should be real good for people like me.” With the passage of this bill, Gertz and millions of other untalented citizens will finally see a light at the end of the tunnel.
Said Sen. Dick Durbin: “As a senator with no abilities, I believe the same privileges that elected officials enjoy ought to be extended to every American with no abilities. It is our duty as lawmakers to provide each and every American citizen, regardless of his or her inadequacy, with some sort of space to take up in this great nation and a good salary for doing so.”
Gary commented:
I remember when I was a kid in a factory town and I would often see people who’d been injured or even disfigured by the machines. But they weren’t on disability, they still worked in the factories!
I remember when my grandmother called a government office to inquire about disability. The lady on the phone asked who dialed the phone for her (back in the dialing days). My grandmother said she dialed it herself. The lady said, “then you can get a job”. And then the line went dead.
“Didn’t need no welfare state, everybody pulled his weight, gee our old LaSalle ran great!”
RedBeard commented:
My grandfather mangled a hand in a work accident, but never asked for anything but to keep going to work. Which he did. And even after he retired, he worked as a carpenter. Disability? Not to him.
Gordo commented:
“#47 March 29, 2011 at 11:20 am
contessa61 commented:
Pat is partially right.
a majority of type II people could be cured if they just lost weight.”
Citation Needed.
I would agree that there are some people with Type II that have it exclusively because of lifestyle and behavior issues, but you’re using an awful wide brush there.
There’s no reason to perpetuate that belief.
Lily Ledbetter commented:
There are waiting lists for services to those who are genuinely disabled now. This just waters down the programs even further. This robs from the disabled. Here in Canada, a socialized system, they cannot hold a candle to what the Americans do for people with disabilities.
Hopefully people from the community of disabled people will recognize and speak out against this.
I have received services for my son, who has Down syndrome, in both countries. The US, though not perfect, is head and shoulders above Canada. At least they were….
RedBeard commented:
“Cured” is a strong word to use, regardless. Some changes, for some people, result in their diabetes being “controlled.”
Primary Boehner commented:
What say you GOP?
Madkangaroo commented:
With this program expansion President Alinsky accomplishes several things:
1. Creates a new rationale for Obamacare
2. The “disabled” have high ins. premiums; employers will dump them into Obamacare
3. An enlarged class of government dependent Democrat voters results
4. An issue to run on in 2012 is created: any attempts by Republicans/Conservatives to undo this will be portrayed as viscious attacks on the disabled
The only Republican/Conservative response I see, at least in the short term, is to address this along the lines of fighting fraud and waste; since employers may react to the program by reducing hiring and passing expenses on to consumers, they could also approach it as keeping job creation going while holding down costs to consumers.
Larkin commented:
I think I’m bi-polar. No, I’m not. Yes, I am. No, I’m not. Yes, I am.
Wait! Maybe I’m schizophrenic. Is that covered?
tommy mc donnell commented:
the goal is to get 100% of americans dependent on the politicans for their well being. they we can have a one-party state like the other workers paradises.
tommy mc donnell commented:
which group is going to get all the money in the country first, the politicans or the lawyers? they are pretty much the same group. ban the legal-political complex.
eaglewingz08 commented:
One can’t just add up the numbers of these groups and arrive at a total, since ailing people will tend to have overlapping ‘disabilities’/illnesses/ailments. As for the 84 million disabled number, that too seems to be a tad high, but given the mental illness rampant in the democrap party, we can see why 30 percent of Americans call themselves democrats, they just can’t help their compulsions.
squeaky commented:
[CNSNews.com) - Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan said that no other President “better understands” the need for public housing than President Obama, adding that the administration will “fight” House Republicans over their proposed cut to public housing funding.] must be his 2 year stint in the whitehouse. there is that reported 11% vacancy rate in homesand with social justice being what it is………..
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/hud-secretary-no-other-president-history#
http://www.cnbc.com/id/41355854/Nearly_11_Percent_of_US_Houses_Empty
Annas commented:
I think we are done for–this will never be repealed. This empty shirt just keeps adding on stuff for taxpayers to pay for and we will have to wear it. Who is going to change this? John Boehner? I don’t think so!
commonman commented:
Our government is causing alot of us mental stress can we get help?
Bobbi commented:
There are two categories of diabetes. (I see that the 26 million makes up most of the new “disabled”)
1. Juvenile diabetes, which has its onset in childhood and must be treated with insulin.
2. Diabetes II which is caused by obesity, and is controlled by proper nutrition.
So, we have Muchelle lecturing to us about watching our calories, and Barry on the other side, rewarding people with Federal money to keep their disability.
Makes a lot of sense…
mcc commented:
From #64, squeaky’s post, BO’s HUD secretary said this:
“Let’s not forget, let’s not forget that President Obama got his first job out of school community organizing on the South Side of Chicago in public housing. No other President in our history better understands what a precious resource public housing is to our communities, to our country, and to our future.”
Donovan continued, “For too many years, public housing has been, not been seen in Washington as the precious resource that it is. You all know that there’s 20 to 30 billion dollars of renovations that are needed in public housing around the country and yet we have a Congress right now, at least one side of the isle, that’s not increasing funding for public housing, their trying to cut it back – a billion dollar cut from the public housing capital fund for this year alone, that’s not even including what could happen next year. So, we need to fight against those cuts.”
Yeah. Keep those billions flowing to Barry’s pals. They’ll take care of the poor. Thought I’d be cutting/pasting how Rezko built such lousy housing, it was deemed uninhabitable in just a few years and how Jarrett failed miserably as manager of some projects — which I could find, but ran across this instead:
“…the Plan for Transformation involved the largest demolition of public housing in American history, affecting about 45,000 people—in neighborhoods where eight of the 20 poorest census tracts in the U.S. were located. 2
But what does this all have to do with Obama? Just this: the area demolished included the communities that Obama represented as a state senator; and the top black administrators, developers and planners were people like Valerie Jarrett…[a]nd Martin Nesbitt who…serves as Obama campaign finance treasurer; Jarrett as co-chair of the Transition Team. The other co-chair is William Daley…” [who's also involved in this "gentrification" as they call it.]
“If we examine more carefully the interests that Obama represents; if we look at his core financial supporters; as well as his inmost circle of advisors, we’ll see that they represent the primary activists in the demolition movement and the primary real estate beneficiaries of this transformation of public housing projects into condo’s and townhouses: the profitable creep of the Central Business District and elite residential neighborhoods southward; and the shifting of the pile of human misery about three miles further into the South Side and the south suburbs.”
AND, If I remember, BO’s flight to Copenhagen to fight for a (Chicago) Olympics was an attempt to help his pals realize even more millions by leveling the(ir) lousy public housing and then build Olympic housing/sites.
cele commented:
I am a retired RN Nurse, worked for 54 years of my life.
Suffers from severe Asthma,
Server scoliosis (curved spine)
BI-Lateral Fracture of the Mandable (broken jaw on both sides)
jaw wired, numbness of lips, jaw, face, have to drink liquid diet.
Carpal Tunel Syndrome of both hands (pinched nerves in the palm of hands)
crippling Arthritis all over my body.
Multiple surgeries for pre-cancerous tumors.
3 level Disc herniation of the spine
Quess what?
I not only took care of others at times at the start of my nursing career up to 60 patients.
I earned $1.25 hourly, and had to survive on this.
The lists goes on and on about my medical problems, yet i worked, and never complained.
I also have many other friends and Associates with Disabilities who have worked and never complained. We had issuse but the patients came first.
Hopefully, those who recieve the help and assistance are the ones who really need it.
The US is broke where is the money coming from?
Mark commented:
What about the majority of the citizens who voted for him. In opinion they too are disabled. disabled.