Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Maine reminds that some people don't want to work Date:   2/11/2016 9:40:30 AM

Do you have any information about what the average person on welfare receives each month?  I don't know.  I don't know what percentage of the population in Maine are on public assistance.  If the situation in Maine is improved, that is great.  Wisconsin too.  I think individual states can put in some reforms - but then do these people just move to a more liberal place?  Or do they stay put? 

But what would happen if they tried reforms in places with a hard core welfare population?  Some place like NYC, Comptom CA, Minnesota?  Would we see a significant increase in crime or drugs?

What portion of the U.S. population is collecting public assistance?  I feel just as strongly about SSD as I do about welfare.   You know there must be a lot of people collecting SSD when you have all these lawyers who specialize in getting people SSD.  Why can't these people be made to find jobs?  Just because you can't do the job you used to do doesn't mean you couldn't do another.  A friend of mine who was a lawyer with SS and handling SSD cases.  She said that on the 3rd submission, they were always approved on appeal.  And yet vets, who actually served their country, wait long periods of time for their cases to be adjudicated, and then have to fight for the benefits they deserve.