you madly.

The military does vote republican. It's strange, but they do. They vote against their own best interests.

.. how many of those vets voted Republican.

so your statement is false.

And yes, most (not all) vets vote republican.

Would like to see some reputable numbers.

support and undying gratitude, along with Elizabeth Warren. Thank you for the post, babylonsister.

If Americans don't raise hell they're going to be a lot worse off in 2 years. It's just the tip of the iceberg that is to come.

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/01/13/gop-house-budget-chair-tom-price-itching-cut-social-security.html

Attacking disability payments is just the tip of the iceberg. House Budget Committee Chair Tom Price (R-GA) made that clear on Monday in a speech at the Heritage Action for America “Conservative Policy Summit

Like Warren said they're going to create a "false crisis" to ram it thru and not only cut but privatize it. Jamie Dimon is salivating at the thought of gambling with it

the root problem causing all of this! He wants to else inset campaign contributions and install Publicly Funded Elctions! Most of the bad things in D.C. Stem from the corruption these campaign bribes cause. It's ridiculous that we allow this!

Thank you, Senator Sanders.

A politician for the ages - honor, integrity, principles...Bernie Sanders has it all.

Huge K&R!!!

bumper sticker on my car for a reason. Go Bernie.

There should be a veritable CHORUS OF OUTRAGE about this from EVERYWHERE - especially Democrats.

What do we hear? ---crickets---

No sense in discussing much else.

who always bring a knife to a gunfight.

speaking out more tells you a lot about their loyalties.

Yep, I'm guessing not that interested in avoiding cuts.

Most congresscritters won't need SS benefits what with their wealth and their Federal pension...so really why do they care.

Besides they have their corporate pay masters to appease.


Paging Jamie Dimon.

Sunday, every News show would have a republican saying the Dems are attacking the Veterans.
Will any Dem but Sanders say this?
That is why they loose.

calling people this stupid 3rd way hippy dippy baloney is _exactly_ the same psychology and mechanism as when 'liberals' is uttered on fox news. Label. Dehumanize. Blame it all on "them". Not you, you have all the answers - based on a fantasy world with magical rules, btw.

reality. republicans have prevented a lot of help from getting out. Instead of rocking the vote or helping get people to the polls, you blame 'Obama' for not including a public option, for not doing this or that (again with the magical waving of the wand) when most issues havent been able to get a bill on the floor, past committee, released from a hold or past the threat of filibuster.

But thats obama's fault.

Soldiers are nothing more than chattel for the 1%. Pawns to be used. And I object to that.

But the minute you're born, they don't give a shit about you.

Nm

recall the delay getting up to date body armor and up-armored humvees in Iraq, as well as perennial issues like military families who qualify for food stamps.

Develop a disability which isn't be prosecuted. Last week 20/20 had a guy who said he was blind was able to get his SSDI started. He went back to work, his duties was to look at a computer screen, he also drove himself to work. When some collects on fraudulent claims it prevents increases for those who needs the funds

Fraud is minimal and just because a very few are able to play the system doesn't mean working moms and disabled vets should be thrown to the curb.

Why do you care so much about fraud that you would cut benefits to those that need it?

Think about it.

'Want something to worry about? Look at the fraud big business gets away with every damn day. Costs a whole lot more than a few poor people on welfare.

So, highly suspicious of the fraught with fraud bullshit from the republicans.

Just another manufactured 'crisis' from the lowlife scum republican.

Read this:

http://oig.ssa.gov/newsroom/congressional-testimony/hearing-combating-disability-waste-fraud-and-abuse

SSDI is not a program for working moms, it is a disability program which should be reserved for those truly disable. I have never advocated throwing working moms or veterans to the curb, quiet the opposite.

Why do I care about fraud, because I do not want to see those who are disable, if you cared about the truly disabled you would be wanting the fraud halted so those who are in need are able to continue to receive their benefits.

As far as the SSDI program goes, it does or does not depend on whether big business gets away with anything, this is funded from the SSA, it is paid by FICA taxes, I don't understand why someone like Bernie doesn't tell the real story behind SSDI, who it is supposed to help and why fraud depletes the fund early.

Take a few minutes to read the following examples of fraud, it this does not redirect your anger towards those who steal from the disabled then you do not care about the disabled and veterans.

http://ourgeneration.org/10-examples-of-ssdi-fraud/

If you do and if you don't want the benefits to stop for those who are entitled to the benefits then instead of talking about "republican talking points" get busy on trying to get the fraud stopped. If you do not like hearing posts talking about the thieves taking from the disable then just skip past my post because I do care about the disabled and veterans.

I will continue to tell the truth about the thieves:

http://ourgeneration.org/10-examples-of-ssdi-fraud/

of SSDI with SSI.

Did you read the report of fraud in SSDI? You probably did not, every dollar stolen by fraud takes away from those who are entitled to the benefit, apparently you are in favor of the SSDI running out of funds by thieves.

be gotten back in benefits. And would cut off more legitimate beneficiaries.

Which is "apparently" what you're in favor of.

Most SSDI claims are denied, even after multiple applications.

GAO Found That Error Rate In Improper Payments Of Social Security Disability Insurance Benefits Is Negligible. A FY2011 investigation by the Government Accountability Office found that improper payments of Social Security benefits that include Disability Insurance had an error rate of just 0.6 percent. [Government Accountability Office, 3/28/12]

SSA Acting Commissioner: 99 Percent Of Social Security Disability Payments Are Accurate. Then-deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration Carolyn W. Colvin testified before the House Committee on Ways and Means in January 2012 that according to the administration's data, Social Security Disability Insurance payments "are highly accurate":


Overall, our SSDI payments are highly accurate. Our most recent data show that, in FY 2010, 99.3 percent of all SSDI payments were free of an overpayment, and 99.0 percent were free of an underpayment. While we are proud of our high accuracy rate for SSDI payments, we recognize that our SSI overpayment accuracy rate falls short of that high standard. To a large extent, inaccuracy is inherent in the complex program rules and the delays in receiving income data. SSI payments can change each month due to income and resource fluctuations and changes in living arrangements. Our overpayment accuracy rate, though improving, reflects that complexity. In the SSI program, 93.3 percent of all payments were free of an overpayment, and 97.6 percent of all payments were free of an underpayment, a significant improvement from FY 2008. [House Committee on Ways and Means Testimony, 1/24/12]

Fmr. Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue: Fraud Is Less Than 1 Percent Of SSI Payments. Former Bush Administration Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue explained on MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes that fraud constitutes less than 1 percent of the outlays of Supplemental Security Income, one of the federal benefit programs for individuals with disabilities. [MSNBC, All In with Chris Hayes, 4/5/13, via Mediaite]



Social Security Administration: Approval Rates For Disability Applicants Have Fallen At All Decision Levels. According to the most recent available data from the Social Security Administration, between 1999 and 2010 the award rate at all decision levels for disability claims fell from 56 percent to 34.8 percent. [Social Security Administration, July 2012]

Average Approval Rate By Appeal Judges Has Fallen Since 2009. The National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives noted that the average approval rate by Administrative Law Judges (ALJs), who review appeals for disability claims that have been denied twice, has fallen since 2009

http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/06/28/right-wing-media-miss-the-facts-on-disability-f/194669

All the materials are linked in the article.

http://oig.ssa.gov/newsroom/congressional-testimony/hearing-combating-disability-waste-fraud-and-abuse


This is in a hearing before Congress. Minor is not $1.8 billion, this is the reason why $1.8 billion is not going to the disabled people who are entitled to the benefits.

"As a result, countless Americans are scamming SSDI by collecting taxpayer-funded disability benefits improperly" = lol.


Ms. Smith has spent close to 30 years in Washington DC working with non-profit organizations. She has dedicated her life’s work as an advocate for limiting government, low taxation, and individual freedom. She continues this work through Our Generation.


http://ourgeneration.org/about-founder-2/


Either you're very gullible or you're an operative.

Why are you trying to overlook the fraud? I don't understand why you are not trying to get the disabled and veterans provided with the benefits they deserve instead of the thieves stealing from the disabled and veterans.

For example:

Also, in a March 2010 report, Full Medical Continuing Disability Reviews, we determined SSA’s number of completed medical CDRs declined by 65 percent from FY 2004 to FY 2008, resulting in a significant CDR backlog. We estimated SSA would have avoided paying at a minimum $556 million during CY 2011 if the medical CDRs in the backlog had been conducted when they were due.

http://oig.ssa.gov/newsroom/congressional-testimony/hearing-combating-disability-waste-fraud-and-abuse

Here's where your claim about $1.8 B in "fraud" came from in the same report:

SSA has reported about $1.8 billion in overpayments in its DI program for FY 2011; SSA paid about $130 billion total in DI in FY 2011.

http://oig.ssa.gov/newsroom/congressional-testimony/hearing-combating-disability-waste-fraud-and-abuse

BTW, $1.8B out of a $130B program = 1.38% of total benefits. How much money is being spent to 'fix' that?

This is about funding, not fraud. Funding which is being cut even while wingers rant about fraud. Everything administrative is being cut at Social Security Administration.

U.S. Representative Xavier Becerra (D-CA) and other national leaders today demanded a halt to deep budget cuts to the Social Security Administration (SSA) passed by the House of Representatives on February 19. Also today, retirees and SSA employees in 96 cities held informational pickets outside Social Security offices to draw attention to the devastating effects the cuts would have on services. For more information on these actions go here.

House Republicans have cut $1.7 billion from the SSA budget in 2011. That could result in workers being furloughed for up to 1 month over the next 7 months. As a result, Social Security office doors may be temporarily closed, phones will not be answered, and claims processing will grind to a halt. Hundreds of thousands of Americans will be put at risk, and jobs will be cut.


http://www.strengthensocialsecurity.org/media/press-release/national-leaders-demand-halt-to-social-security-budget-cuts


You're spouting the wingnut party line using wingnut sources. If it quacks like a duck...

Then it is your decision, I believe in helping the disabled and not the able living off of others. I stand on the side of helping those who needs help, laziness us not a disability.

of winger talking points.

Overpayments don't equal "fraud," but error. 1.4% error rate is pretty damn good, better than the military by a mile.

But calling it "fraud" is better for the wreckers who want to disembowel SSA.

I assume that's why, instead of just quoting what was actually said, "overpayment," you called it "fraud".

Those who defraud SSDI, they don't care about the truly disabled. Enjoy the thought of cutbacks because SSDI is abused.

When the fund is depleted perhaps you can tell those who normally receive funds bs, sure they received their benefits and it is a RW talking point but the money is in their checking accounts.

of any spurious "fraud".

It's only going to get worse. Bernie himself made this clear:

One thing that drives me crazy is it is so easy to point out a problem but it never seems like anyone ever wants to actually do something about it! It reassures me to hear Bernie is "on the case".

My wife has SSDI and a 20% cut would definitely hurt our household, and she paid in fair and square, she doesn't deserve to have he benefits cut so someone that makes $1,000,000 can make $1,000,100

care of our disabled, I just don't like the benefits going to those who commit fraud. Some examples of shameful thieves:

http://ourgeneration.org/10-examples-of-ssdi-fraud/

Republican mantra:
The wants and needs of the very few, far, far outweigh the needs and wants of the very many.

Just another fiction spun by the folks that voted more than 50 times to take away healthcare insurance from the poor, disabled and oh yeah people that served their Nation with arms...Stop supporting those that act not in our interests. OK?

cutting disability is ridiculous.

100% of Democratic office holders should be raising hell about this. Including President Obama. And I mean RAISING HELL.

The Republicans whine and scream over every little tiny thing (Obama didn't go to Paris - the world may end!), but the Dems are quiet about true atrocities the Republicans commit every damned day!!

But come on Bernie. This is no way to get ahead in politics.
If only he wasn't so crazy, way out there in the atmosphere, far, far, far left and was willing to work with Wall St and conservatives then he could meet them halfway and be taken seriously by some of us. Ah well.