There is a faction in both parties that want to get rid of disability benefits for disabled citizens, disabled workers, and disabled veterans in order to teach young men the value of being responsible; women aren’t responsible.
Veterans are irresponsible moochers to these folks.
“One great, and valid, complaint about Social Security is that it is paternalistic: … it commits the twin transgressions of forcing some people to support others and making the beneficiaries the servile dependents of the state” ().fee.org/articles/is-so…
“[I]n providing old-age, survivors, and disability benefits, it usurps the individual’s responsibility to make prudent provision for his old age or disability and for the well-being of dependent family members who would suffer financially if he died” ().fee.org/articles/is-so…
“… In short, Social Security encourages them to behave less like prudent, future-conscious, responsible adults and more like feckless, irresponsible, improvident children” ().fee.org/articles/is-so…
“A similar and equally demanding observation can be made in regards to the [Veterans Disability Compensation] program, for it too is described as ‘paternal’ in its practices” (, p. 470). digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/cgi/viewconten…
“Why is it, then, that the definition of both Social Security and [Veterans Disability Compensation] disability has changed, becoming less stringent over time” (, p. 470)? digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/cgi/viewconten…
“Why is it that [Veterans Disability Compensation] disability benefits are initially based on incremental determinations which look not to an actual inability to function in the workplace, but to what a hypothetical ‘average man’ is unable to do”(, p. 470)? digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/cgi/viewconten…
“Why is it that one’s actual ability to work is accorded little weight when assessing [Veterans Disability Compensation] ‘disability’” (, p. 470)? digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/cgi/viewconten…
“Have we, in a rush to meet a perceived growing need, sacrificed objectivity in Veterans’ disability determinations? In Social Security disability decision-making” (, p. 470)? digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/cgi/viewconten…
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