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Warpy

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6. Mostly it's being driven by people over 50 who can't get hired anywhere

Reply to Warren Stupidity (Original post)

Sun Mar 31, 2013, 08:51 PM

Mar 2013

in this miserable Republican Depression but who have been soldiering on with severe chronic illness for years because they know they'd live better on a paycheck than on a disability check.

It's an average 3 year slog to get disability benefits. It's not like they prance in, plop down, and get rubberstamped into them on the spot. They don't.

This is another article written by an idiot pulling things out of thin air and right wing prejudice.

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Trends with benefits, This American Life drinks the kool aide. [View all] Warren Stupidity Mar 2013 OP

I think they are getting called out on it. Iris Mar 2013 #1

Here - Media Matters and International Business Times Iris Mar 2013 #3

Let us know. Dawson Leery Mar 2013 #4

Look up! Iris Mar 2013 #5

NPR has come a long way from the Fire Sign Theater to this dreck . olddots Mar 2013 #2

Mostly it's being driven by people over 50 who can't get hired anywhere Warpy Mar 2013 #6

The stupid piece couldn't even substantiate that claim. Warren Stupidity Apr 2013 #24

I too was furious with that hack and her slanted piece of so called work. Bluenorthwest Mar 2013 #7

A woman I know lost her mother, for whom she was the caregiver LiberalEsto Mar 2013 #8

Not according to TAL. Warren Stupidity Apr 2013 #12

I only caught a few moments of it, and I was seeing red. Geoff R. Casavant Mar 2013 #9

The Bush administration's "gift" to NPR--a bunch of assholes hired by his appointees during his MADem Apr 2013 #10

I could be wrong but I don't think NPR has any government appointed directors. Warren Stupidity Apr 2013 #11

CPB does. And they have oversight over both PBS and NPR. Background.... MADem Apr 2013 #23

I remember when this happened. The Capitol Steps had a song about it... winter is coming Apr 2013 #26

I used to love going to see those guys--I am a fan of that kind of cleverness! MADem Apr 2013 #27

not the first time tal has presented the neolib POV HiPointDem Apr 2013 #13

Yeah, people just love poverty, that's why all the well-off are so eager to give their money away. bemildred Apr 2013 #14

Well, GiveMeFreedom Apr 2013 #15

Me Too otohara Apr 2013 #16

The American Life gets a lot right generally, but when they get something wrong... Javaman Apr 2013 #17

They have a good track record to owning up to their mistakes, though Orrex Apr 2013 #18

Me too. Javaman Apr 2013 #19

Yeah... Orrex Apr 2013 #20

So far they are "standing by the story" despite having already made corrections. Warren Stupidity Apr 2013 #21

Yeah, I saw that after I posted Orrex Apr 2013 #22

Oh and the "comment on" for this crap is exquisite. Warren Stupidity Apr 2013 #25

Wow truly sickening exchanges @ the NPR blog- lunasun Apr 2013 #29

Sadly those comments don't surprise me america was one of the earliest supporters of eugenics Arcanetrance Apr 2013 #31

did u listen to the very end? she realizes that no one in that town Liberal_in_LA Apr 2013 #28

Yeah that was the part where she almost fill into a pit of truth. Warren Stupidity Apr 2013 #30