Dissability increase on Melissa Harris-Perry. WTF did you think was

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9. Having had to babysit an alcoholic on the job, I've experienced another

thing right-wingers don't see clearly. If you cut some people off with the idea that you'll force them to get a job, you are also asking someone to hire them and others to work with them. Someone you wouldn't want working for you or with you.

The drunk I had to put up with was a business owners relative. Whatever I would have had to pay in additional taxes would have been well worth it to have been able to get rid of that guy. It would have been fine with me to have him sit at home and drink all day.

I understand that it's considerably harder to get disability for alcoholism these days. I actually know another guy that's disabled, bipolar and on medication. He's joked about that, saying he could ramp up the drinking if it'd get him more benefits. In his case, he's an expert painter that could have been on disability years before with the bipolar disorder and back problems. I know because I've seen him have to cancel a rafting trip because he couldn't get out of bed. He would have died first, rather than miss that trip.