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1. Tell that to my son

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Mar 15, 2017, 10:45 AM

Mar 2017

who is blind, and has Type 1 Diabetes, Epilepsy, and severe facial disfigurement due to a gun shot wound.

Get out and work you slacker! I'm sure somebody will hire you!

For the record, he has actually tried. He would like to work but his chances are slim to none. So he volunteers for a nonprofit. They love him.

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Trump Admin May Let States Impose Medicaid Work Requirements [View all] DonViejo Mar 2017 OP

Tell that to my son TBA Mar 2017 #1

They never mean people like your son, so conveniently Hortensis Mar 2017 #16

I will go to work orangecrush Mar 2017 #2

These people are evil. They jrthin Mar 2017 #3

They are an evil pox on earth destroying anything they come in contact with. Seriously, they RKP5637 Mar 2017 #9

I've always used that word with reluctance. Now more and more, EVIL enough Mar 2017 #12

Medicaid. Which, btw, also pays long-term elder care. Hortensis Mar 2017 #19

Medicaid and Medicare are huge benefits for younger people. SharonAnn Mar 2017 #32

Yes. And $6-7K per month would be $150K+ over 2 years, Hortensis Mar 2017 #33

6k? Try 10k DeminPennswoods Mar 2017 #38

Now these guys are really motherfuckers! mountain grammy Mar 2017 #4

I can just see them telling an Alzheimer's patient in a nursing home to Stonepounder Mar 2017 #8

Medicaid has an income threshold - if you earn too much $, you don't stopbush Mar 2017 #5

Get those slackers out of their wheelchairs and nursing homes dalton99a Mar 2017 #6

Hey! They can take all those swell jobs trump's gonna bring us... er, ...whenever. mpcamb Mar 2017 #17

"Great jobs, fantastic jobs" dalton99a Mar 2017 #18

Indentured Servitude Cryptoad Mar 2017 #23

just another example of our psychopath president. nt Javaman Mar 2017 #7

You can't find living wage job so go on medicaid, it requires you to get a living wage job? uppityperson Mar 2017 #10

This line of attack on the working poor - yallerdawg Mar 2017 #11

It's a entrepreneur killer... Blanks Mar 2017 #13

Most of them already are working, you imbeciles. GoCubsGo Mar 2017 #14

Maybe while they are in the hospital...... Cryptoad Mar 2017 #22

Oh, my 74-year-old glaucoma-bedevilled Aunt would be right there! WinkyDink Mar 2017 #15

Arbeit Macht Frie James48 Mar 2017 #20

,,, and people wonder why i say,,,,,, Cryptoad Mar 2017 #21

Trump is going to lose...he won't get this through. Demsrule86 Mar 2017 #24

It sounds like they are going to do this by expanding the waiver program. briv1016 Mar 2017 #29

Klllers! lark Mar 2017 #25

Similar to what Giuliani intended in the Nineties when he was NYC mayor. no_hypocrisy Mar 2017 #26

I knew they were going to start going after people like me. Doreen Mar 2017 #27

So price and verma xxqqqzme Mar 2017 #28

The poor, White working classes voted for this. Yavin4 Mar 2017 #30

Soon the GOP will be passing bills to make not working illegal. hollowdweller Mar 2017 #31

Unless, of course, not fooled Mar 2017 #34

The poor working whites....... Red Mountain Mar 2017 #35

"Our punch down society..." Solly Mack Mar 2017 #36

I'll never understand the cruelty. Solly Mack Mar 2017 #37

Horrible idea to impose standingtall Mar 2017 #39