I think we should remove "disabled" from the dictionary

[Southpaw]

I was simply agreeing with your post about the programs vulnerability to abuse and fraud, which is where I think reform could play an important role in getting it to those that NEED it and away from those that just WANT it.

gotcha!

 

[Sugar Land]

Hell, they won't give me one of them!!

But I do get to board airplanes first, which is actually a benefit for everyone else. If you ever see a one armed guy about to attempt to put
a 30 lb. bag into the over head and you are close by, you may want to take cover.

I sure get some odd looks with handicap plates on my Harley.

 

[Shotgun Jeremy]

The only ones that get me are handicapped plates on sports cars. You mean to tell me youre handicapped but can climb in and out of that thing several times a day? Shit-getting out of a chair hurts for me sometimes and I'm just a regular dude. Lol!

 

[Sugar Land]

Hell I have a hard time getting in and out of my car and its pretty big. Just because you are handicapped don't mean you can't have fun.

 

[Byrd666]

Being a "handicapped/disabled individual myself due to real nasty incident some 20 years ago that left me paralyzed, wholly and totally paralyzed, on one side of my body, I totally agree with quite a few of the statements and opinions expressed. There are way too many people on some sort of disability pay that shouldn't be.

Even after being put on government disability, I went back to school, got my degree, and after graduating I worked for various design and manufacturing firms/companies for over twenty years, Without taking a penny from the gov., until I had to have serious, limb threatening surgeries, about eleven or twelve of them on my "good" arm. It was about that time, just before the surgeries, that I got laid off due to the economic collapse and was drawing unemployment. So in a way that was a godsend of sorts. Fast forward four years, working again and no longer accepting a gov. check.

Granted, I can't climb a ladder anymore. Or drive a big truck, or hang sheetrock or wallpaper, or work on cars or bikes like I used to can. But I can still get off what little ass I have left and do something. I think, as has been mentioned, that I still owe my country and community something. Anything. NOT the other way around.