Thank you for all that you do to help people escape or avoid high-demand groups and undue influence. I have a burning question of my own: Have you ever investigated America's SSI Disability program and applied the BITE model?
People on SSI Disability (and those who SHOULD qualify) are the poorest, sickest people in the country. After a grueling process of applying for assistance which can take years, and requires a lawyer, if someone DOES get approved, they are presumed to be welfare cheats, kept well below the poverty line , punished for trying to work, punished for accepting family/ friends assistance, and punished for getting married. Its presumed that if you can't support yourself, then you dont have the right to dignity or respect.
The govt interferes with our social ties, any efforts to work, or save money, is constantly asking us to justify ourselves, and using any pretext to cut off our benefits. This usually costs us our health care, which for us is deadly. In this brave new Internet world, they spy on our social media as well.
Its like an open air prison and creates an artificial divide between people: economically, socially, and sometimes geographically, disabled people and healthy people are segregated by an invisible Grand Canyon: iron lungs over here, Ironman over there. As if people who need assistance and health care, but could then work, don't exist.
Currently healthy people seem to be pumped full of thought-stopping cliches like "If you can work you are not disabled" ( like if someone with Down's Syndrome gets a job, they no longer have Down's Syndrome?)
"You're a leech on my hard-earned money." As if the parasite class is the least powerful, instead of the most powerful billionaires...
Maybe workers don't want to think about what awaits THEM when they can't work anymore. Of course, denial and repression won't protect them, just as shame and blame makes us no less disabled.
You are a brave man, or you would not have gone into this line of work. If you are EXTREMELY brave, you will analyze the SSI Disability program against the BITE model and publicly share your findings. I will post another note with links to give you the general idea if you don't already know.
How can those of us who are not in the cult, reach out to those who have fallen victim to it? I believe we need to unite, as Americans all, to save our cherished freedoms.
Imani Barbarin is a guest on The Financial Diet. She has cerebral palsy , and talks about the extra hardships that "legislated poverty" heaps on disabled people.
This video about the top 5 unethical rules of SSI ( he lists more like 13) is from Walter Hnot, a lawyer who specializes in representing people who get/ need to get SSI.
Thank you for all that you do to help people escape or avoid high-demand groups and undue influence. I have a burning question of my own: Have you ever investigated America's SSI Disability program and applied the BITE model?
People on SSI Disability (and those who SHOULD qualify) are the poorest, sickest people in the country. After a grueling process of applying for assistance which can take years, and requires a lawyer, if someone DOES get approved, they are presumed to be welfare cheats, kept well below the poverty line , punished for trying to work, punished for accepting family/ friends assistance, and punished for getting married. Its presumed that if you can't support yourself, then you dont have the right to dignity or respect.
The govt interferes with our social ties, any efforts to work, or save money, is constantly asking us to justify ourselves, and using any pretext to cut off our benefits. This usually costs us our health care, which for us is deadly. In this brave new Internet world, they spy on our social media as well.
Its like an open air prison and creates an artificial divide between people: economically, socially, and sometimes geographically, disabled people and healthy people are segregated by an invisible Grand Canyon: iron lungs over here, Ironman over there. As if people who need assistance and health care, but could then work, don't exist.
Currently healthy people seem to be pumped full of thought-stopping cliches like "If you can work you are not disabled" ( like if someone with Down's Syndrome gets a job, they no longer have Down's Syndrome?)
"You're a leech on my hard-earned money." As if the parasite class is the least powerful, instead of the most powerful billionaires...
Maybe workers don't want to think about what awaits THEM when they can't work anymore. Of course, denial and repression won't protect them, just as shame and blame makes us no less disabled.
You are a brave man, or you would not have gone into this line of work. If you are EXTREMELY brave, you will analyze the SSI Disability program against the BITE model and publicly share your findings. I will post another note with links to give you the general idea if you don't already know.
Dr. Hassan,
How can those of us who are not in the cult, reach out to those who have fallen victim to it? I believe we need to unite, as Americans all, to save our cherished freedoms.
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Some quick notes on how the SSI Disability program does NOT work:
https://youtu.be/hq2s7RMRsgs?si=taaA7D4aJq8V7Wc_
John Oliver's brilliant, hilarious critique
https://youtu.be/4kKWb1ttMsk?si=kjbIdcyXvpozk5e9
Imani Barbarin is a guest on The Financial Diet. She has cerebral palsy , and talks about the extra hardships that "legislated poverty" heaps on disabled people.
https://www.youtube.com/live/tkNYzq9vi6I?si=W-l2UllWeF7qMujU
This video about the top 5 unethical rules of SSI ( he lists more like 13) is from Walter Hnot, a lawyer who specializes in representing people who get/ need to get SSI.
The SSI program provides much needed help to millions. But it is run like a CULT!