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LiberalArkie

(15,686 posts)
Mon Nov 9, 2015, 07:30 PM Nov 2015

Tom Cotton suggests link between Social Security benefits and drug addiction



Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) suggested on Monday that population decline and drug abuse in poor areas could be the result of too many people on Social Security disability.

Speaking to the conservative Heritage Foundation on Monday, Cotton warned that communities with high a percentage of residents on Social Security disability had reached a tipping point that was linked to population decline. But he said that communities which used fewer benefits were enjoying a population increase

“It’s hard to say what came first or caused the other, population decline or increased disability usage,” Cotton opined. “Or maybe economic stagnation caused both. Regardless, there seems to be at least at the county and regional level something like a disability tipping point.”

“When a county hits a certain level of disability usage, disability becomes a norm,” he continued. “It becomes an acceptable way of life and alternative source of income to a good paying full-time job as opposed to a last resort safety net program to deal with catastrophic injury and illness.”


http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/11/09/tom-cotton-suggests-link-between-social-security-benefits-and-drug-addiction
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LiberalArkie

(15,686 posts)
2. Yea I know, I think it might be easier to find him a boyfriend and a photographer. Old style
Mon Nov 9, 2015, 07:38 PM
Nov 2015

Arkansas politics.

LiberalArkie

(15,686 posts)
4. If we had a decent Democratic party in Arkansas he would have been railroaded out of town,
Mon Nov 9, 2015, 07:47 PM
Nov 2015

but I think they try to play nice these days. There is something to be said for the Faubus methods of politics.

brush

(53,467 posts)
5. The first I've heard from this fool since the letter to Iran
Mon Nov 9, 2015, 07:48 PM
Nov 2015

Guess he's finally found something to jump that he thinks will get him some screen time.

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
9. 47of74 suggests a link between dumb fuckery and the United States Senate
Tue Nov 10, 2015, 05:50 PM
Nov 2015

All wrapped up into one nasty piece of work called Tom Cotton(mouth).

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