Bobbo purging

[dandi]

bobbolink  (1000+ posts)

While you are fighting mad about SS, could you remember the other SS fight--affecting many DUers?
 
Several times I have mentioned that there seems to be a Social Security disability purge in process. It doesn't garner attention... I guess those of us affected aren't on the radar screen.

I have come across too many disability recipients being cut off to think this is just business as usual... this looks like it mirrors the massive cut offs of Raygun, during which thousands of people killed themselves because they had no other way to survive. Are we going to wait to see if there is a repeat of this massive die-off?

I have heard from other DUers who have received cut off notices. (No, I won't give their names without their permission.... just know there are several.)

I have asked for help with this, as the reason we are being targeted now is that we DON'T HAVE VOICES, and WE DON'T HAVE LARGE SUPPORT! They know they can off us, because we won't be missed. Very few people respond. It just doesn't register.

One person who wanted to help wanted me to turn over my papers, which I won't do. I won't give personal information to someone I haven't even met, nor would I ask anyone else to do so. I said that it would make sense to contact any group working with disabled people, to see if they have some hard information, but that met with silence.

Even without that information, massive protest would serve notice that our demise would be noticed, and not tolerated.

So, I ask again... as you fight the Cat Food elite, could you please remember those of us who are being threatened Right Now?

Could you register anger that we are being put through this?

Could you let it be known that our disappearance won't be accepted as business as usual?

Can we couldn on you for this?

We would appreciate it.

Thank you.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9034376#9034534

They "killed themselves because they had no other way to survive"? Is it just me, or does that sound stupid on a galactic scale?

Anyway, I doubt there's any systematic "purge" going on, just a routine disqualifying of deadbeats.

pinto   (1000+ posts)      Sat Aug-28-10 03:46 PM
Response to Original message
12. First thing anyone who receives a letter of intent to discontinue benefits ought to do is appeal.
 http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10041.html

This puts a temporary hold on any final action, requests a review of the decision process and initiates the first step in an appeal process. Also gives the beneficiary time to elicit other support / resources. It's got to be done within the time frame stated, or the opportunity is lost.

Second thing is to access local advocacy resources. Most non-profits working with the disabled communities have a "benefits counselor" on staff. They ought to know the ropes and the process of maneuvering through the Social Security system.

Third, garner *every piece* of documentation that relates to your disabling condition and supports your claim for ongoing benefits.

Work with any local advocates and submit copies of the documentation to Social Security - they have to consider the written record in any decision.

Hope this helps ~ pinto

You'd think that would be welcome advice, Right?

You'd be wrong.

bobbolink  (1000+ posts)        Sat Aug-28-10 03:50 PM
Response to Reply #12
14. I'm sure you know that everyone on disability already knows this. 
 I'm guessing you also know that this is exactly what all those who were cut during Raygun did.... and they died anyway.

It is waaaay past time to Stop making this an individual problem.

This is a SOCIETAL problem, and it is time for "progressives" to give a bit of energy for those who are ignored the rest of the time.

pinto   (1000+ posts)      Sat Aug-28-10 04:10 PM
Response to Reply #14
22. Not so sure. I've seen people so frustrated with "the system" that they walk away.
 Everyone loses then. Most of all the disabled who need support from the system.

My point here is to encourage folks, at this point in time, to access what's there - on a day to day basis - while encouraging a broader change in policies.

The two goals aren't mutually exclusive, imho. One benefits the other.

bobbolink  (1000+ posts)        Sat Aug-28-10 04:25 PM
Response to Reply #22
24. I am not going to continue to listen to the blaming the victim meme. 
 This purge requires the action of "progressives".

If you cannot join the fight, and feel you must continue to blame those who are going down, please take it elsewhere.

THERE. ARE. LIVES. AT. STAKE.

Thank you.

ThomasQED (138 posts)      Sat Aug-28-10 05:56 PM
Response to Reply #24
39. I feel like I missed something between the two posts immediately above...
 how was that "blaming the victim"? I see it more as encouraging the victim. And what people DON'T know - including myself - would fill a few Internets.

bobbolink  (1000+ posts)        Sat Aug-28-10 06:00 PM
Response to Reply #39
41. Taking a societal problem and making it an individual problem is what keeps the whole ugly mess   
 going.

EVERYONE is appealing like crazy, but we have no power.

Are you going to be willing to fight for us, or are you just going to see it as our problem?

With that, I am done with this whole side show.

Either help us, or go on to something else.

ThomasQED (138 posts)      Sat Aug-28-10 06:06 PM
Response to Reply #41
45. EVERYONE isn't doing anything
 I'm sure many people do appeal, maybe most. But I know from personal experience that not everyone does. I agree with pinto, the two goals are not mutually exclusive. Of course it's important to focus on the entire problem, but in the meantime there are people who need help NOW.

bobbolink  (1000+ posts)        Sat Aug-28-10 06:09 PM
Response to Reply #45
49. I will ask again.. please take this somewhere else. you are not willing to add to action on this,   
 and are being disruptive.

There are LIVES riding on this, but that matters not to you.

I asked you to be more sensitive but you refuse, so welcome to my ignore list.

bye... go away, please.

ThomasQED (138 posts)      Sat Aug-28-10 06:15 PM
Response to Reply #49
51. Take this somewhere else... ???
 I thought a discussion forum was a good place to ask questions and you know, discuss things. You have NO IDEA what matters to me.

superduperfarleft (1000+ posts)      Sat Aug-28-10 06:36 PM
Response to Reply #39
59. I see you've met bobbolink. n/t

Seriously, I don't see how the DUmmies restrain themselves from just cursing this asshole out. Her obnoxiousness alienates the very people she begs for help from.
 

 

 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 




 

[LC EFA]

bobbolink  (1000+ posts)

While you are fighting mad about SS, could you remember the other SS fight--affecting many DUers?
 
Several times I have mentioned that there seems to be a Social Security disability purge in process. It doesn't garner attention... I guess those of us affected aren't on the radar screen.

I have come across too many disability recipients being cut off to think this is just business as usual... this looks like it mirrors the massive cut offs of Raygun, during which thousands of people killed themselves because they had no other way to survive. Are we going to wait to see if there is a repeat of this massive die-off?
...

I fail to see the problem....

[diesel driver]

I fail to see the problem....

Me neither.   

I guess this means that Bobo won't get the much needed upgrades for her cardboard box this winter.

[USA4ME]

"Thousands of people killed themselves?" "The massive cut offs of Raygun?"  Yeah, whatever lies you want to believe, Bobo.

 

Eventually the primitives need to wise up and just not respond to her nonsense.  Several have done that to some degree with UGP.  But expecting the primitives to wise up is like leading to hippy to water and trying to make the bathe.

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[Tucker]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9034376#9034534


Seriously, I don't see how the DUmmies restrain themselves from just cursing this asshole out. Her obnoxiousness alienates the very people she begs for help from.

Isn't that what got wee willie a pizza?

[dandi]

Isn't that what got wee willie a pizza?

Yeah, I think he threatened to kill her.

[Tucker]

Yeah, I think he threatened to kill her.

Well It's not the worst idea that has been proposed.

[Chris_]

Bobbo the hobbo is really getting under my skin.  Why does she talk down to others and act like she's better?  Give me a break.  I'd love to put that bitch back into her place. 

[true_blood]

Bobbo the hobbo is really getting under my skin.  Why does she talk down to others and act like she's better?  Give me a break.  I'd love to put that bitch back into her place. 

HA HA!! Love it.

[Chris_]

I would have sent her ass back to the kitchen, but I remembered she didn't have a house.

[true_blood]

I would have sent her ass back to the kitchen, but I remembered she didn't have a house.

lol
 

[delilahmused]

I'm not quite sure what she wants everyone to do.

Cindie

[delilahmused]

Bobbo's plight as rendered by CalPiggy:

I fight with
only my iPhone

and car
a purge of
helpless and angry

I scream
I whine
still my unicorn dies

what good is
a
free unicorn
when no one knows

how to do cpr to save it

I am ignored
I could die

on purpose
would
anyone
care

No one gives the right kind of help
how to explain

I cannot show my papers
it's too invasive

I WANT EVERYTHING
BUT

you don't care
bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch

sirens come
they pass me by
again
shit!

Cindie

[The Hollywood NeoCon]

So, I ask again... as you fight the Cat Food elite...

Can someone, for the love of all that is Holy, tell me just who the F*CK the "Cat Food elite" are????

[Chris_]

Can someone, for the love of all that is Holy, tell me just who the F*CK the "Cat Food elite" are????

Those who only eat cat food?

I have no idea.  That's all I came up with when I read that.

[IassaFTots]

Can someone, for the love of all that is Holy, tell me just who the F*CK the "Cat Food elite" are????

I haven't a freaking clue.  Maybe someone who can afford to have a cat and feed it?

I see you've met BobboLink.

So totally almost worth a sig line.  If I was to quote a DUmmie.  

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Can someone, for the love of all that is Holy, tell me just who the F*CK the "Cat Food elite" are????

The deficit commission put together by Obummer was dubbed "The Cat Food Commission" by MSNBC's stable of giant-pygmy intellects because they get to decide who gets stuck eating cat food to survive in George Bush's America.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Bravo Cindie!

 

[Boudicca]

The deficit commission put together by Obummer was dubbed "The Cat Food Commission" by MSNBC's stable of giant-pygmy intellects because they get to decide who gets stuck eating cat food to survive in George Bush's America.

AHEM, I went all damn day Friday without eating anything.  Moi cannot live on coffee and wine alone so when I emptied those cans of cat food for my 8 tigers, the cat cuisine smelled DELISH.  I could have easily dived into a can of teh Fancy Feast, but alas, the salmon awaited.

[Chris_]

I like you, but that's kinda gross.

There are cereal-based dog foods that taste exactly like the fancy $5-a-box stuff breakfast cereal.  Don't ask me what brand because I don't remember, and I only tried it once.

[Boudicca]

Me neither.   

I guess this means that Bobo won't get the much needed upgrades for her cardboard box this winter.

Dayum, youall are just NOT GETTING BOOBOO'S POINT.  She doesn't want a cardboard box, nor her dated rattletrap on wheels, but her own, solely for her own use, 4-bedroom, 2-bath spacious house, all utilities paid, groceries delivered, swimming pool and personal cabana boy.  Anything less than this is simply unacceptable.
 :hammer:on you for the cardboard box meme.  BOOBOO accepts nothing less than the above.

[Boudicca]

I like you, but that's kinda gross.

There are cereal-based dog foods that taste exactly like the fancy $5-a-box stuff breakfast cereal.  Don't ask me what brand because I don't remember, and I only tried it once.

If this was addressed to little ol' moi, I have oft contemplated heating up several cans of the cat chow for DH.  After all, he HAS been known to comment on how the doggies' and kitties' chow smells better than whatever I had planned for dinner.
Such commentary has me sending his azz out the door for a nice greazy Big Mac dinner for me and whatever he wants for himself.

[Chris_]

  I don't know what kind of cat food you're buying.  Must not be the same brand I'm familiar with.

[PatriotGame]

Can someone, for the love of all that is Holy, tell me just who the F*CK the "Cat Food elite" are????

Fur-Ball warriors...

[Boudicca]

  I don't know what kind of cat food you're buying.  Must not be the same brand I'm familiar with.

Fancy Feast, dude.  Kittehs love it bettah than catnip.