60 minutes disability scam
 

Sixty minutes took a look at disability practices especially in West
Virginia.

I thought they would be checking out New York, with focus on Long
Island. However West Virginia is far more interesting....the doctor and
the lawyer sharing the same office. :D

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_16...isability-usa/

West Virginia???? A Red State????? Oh, you mean the problem isn't just inner-city blacks living in Blue States? Or Mexicans who sneaked across the border to get the goodies?:rolleyes:

I know people, actually I have relatives, who have been on the dole for years but vote Republican because they're "...tired of Obama giving out goodies to his homies." And, of course, they used to work so they deserve it.:confused:

I like how Coburn glosses over the fact that the problem accelerated starting in 2006 and continues to this day because there are no jobs in places like W. Virginia.

Dave

My hillbilly, er, mountain men (:)) friends tell me the economy of WV is SSI and prescription painkillers.

Home of Byrd Dave ;)

Pete

It's a red state, Pete.;)

Is your rough and ready, mountain man republican friend also welfare cheat who feels it's "different" because it's HIM??

I've only met 1 Rep from WV. The rest are dyed in the wool old school union/miner type Dems.

My good friend worked his whole life until recently. Some sort of whole body arthritis - he can hardly walk.

Pete

Fibromyalgeia?

I don't remember - I'll have to ask. It sounds familiar, I dunno.

Btw, they teach the 3 rs' in WV schools - Readin', Ritin', and the Road to Cleveland :D

Pete

Uh, Huh.

Dave

Up 20% in the last 6 years, a budget of 135 billion. :eek:

At the beginning of the program I thought they were going to feature
those guys over Long Island NY who I mistakenly believed had a lock on this scam.

Good Lord everyone must know something smells when the lawyers are advertising round the clock.

They voted 62%-35% in favor of Romney.

Obie's anti-coal you know. 1st Appalachia, next the cities? :p

Pete

Indicating how politically dumb they are.

Happens here also. Some of the most ardent fan of repubs right wingers
are unionized workers with high paying jobs. Some of them were jolted when the right wingers voted down funds for their area which was devastated by
Sandy.

If it comes to that I am damn well anti coal with their mountain top removal and polluting every river they can - fuck them.

Everything about coal is dirty, from the way old Rockefeller (iirc?) screwed the poor folks to the way it can be mined. My neighbor worked for one as a welder/fabricator (the equipment is impressive!) and he quit because of their habits (he's an avid outdoorsman), he said 'you've got all this digging equipment, it's too easy to scoop a hole and dump your waste oil in it'. Probably worse than the mountaintop removal.

Pete

Another thing interesting about WV is that when you drive through the mountains and hollows of the state (and I've been all over it, many times over), you see countless clowns flying the "Stars & Bars" oblivious to the fact that WV was created during the Civil War when Union-sympathizing western Virginia split from Virginia to create West Virginia. West Virginia made a conscious and deliberate choice to be a Union state and I'll bet most, if not all, of the Stars-n-Bars flyers have no clue about this history.

We used to have people flying the "Stars & Bars" in OHIO, when I was a kid, Pat.

But then, I'd guess half of the people in Ohio were from W. Virginia at the time. Which might explain a thing or two.......:rolleyes:

Nothing is worse than that strip mining, there used to be black willow trees lining the banks of the Kentucky River, none left - whatever is in the water killed them all.

So cheap natural gas is killing coal and it pollutes the ground water, ironic no?

LOL!

I had a mountain man wish me a happy earl ray james day once, I asked him if he knew why his state broke off :rolleyes:

The rebel flag means different things to different people though.

Pete

I don't know the answer Rob. At least with fracking the landowners are getting a good part of the money.

Pete

I know a guy, back home, whom I'm sure still proudly displays his rebel flag. He has bitched about life in Yankeeland since he was a kid. He constantly whines about "Obama" and the "Commiecrats". He should be turning fifty soon.

He could have returned to the holler and it's limited gene pool whenever the fancy struck him........

But he can't retire from his union job at General Motors until he turns 55.

I'm sure that if the plant closes before he gets to 55, he'll go back to W.Va. and develop a sudden case of Fibromyalgia...........

But, that's perfectly okay. You see....He's "earned" it. :rolleyes:

Dave

None is worth your water supply.

I too am guilty of using energy. Even the cleanest of energy creates heat.

Pete

Hot air?:D

:D My grand granddad used to say that.

Pete