DU pulse check Social Security Disability Insurance or SSDI

[Omaha Steve]

A DUI driver has a bad accident and becomes disabled. Driver starts getting Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). The driver had enough earned work credits to qualify. This is how the system works and should continue to work? You tell us.

There is room for four more options if we get requests to add to the list.

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11 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	DUI driver caused own problem STARVE
	0 (0%)
	DUI is getting an earned benefit the system works
	10 (91%)
	Other please explain
	0 (0%)
	DUI driver caused their own problem, but we are a caring society and it was earned
	1 (9%)
	I got my pay check, screw the needy!
	0 (0%)
	Social Security should not even have Social Security Disability Insurance
	0 (0%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. Alcoholism is a disease

And even if it wasnt, the alternative is?

[daleanime]

2. The only question is the disability.....

how and why don't matter.

[Ykcutnek]

3. A DUI should not be punished in that manner.

Anymore than someone who has been convicted of a drug offense should lose SNAP.

People make mistakes. It doesn't mean they should be sentenced to homelessness and starvation.

Fuck that.

[unrepentant progress]

4. Of course the person is entitled to disability benefits

A person decides to try skydiving. Due to their inexperience, the chute becomes tangled, and they suffer disabling injuries. Should they be denied disability benefits because it was their own damn fault? Of course not.

A person enjoys cross country skiing. The person in question is an experienced, and capable, skiier. However, one day they are too enthusiastic to check out a new trail, and not as mindful of the weather as they should be. Even more unfortunate, in their enthusiasm the person forgets to charge their cell phone. Out in the middle of the woods they suffer an accident, and while the person makes it back to safety, severe frostbite causes them to have a lifelong disabling condition. Should they be denied disability benefits because their condition is their own damn fault? No, that's stupid.

A person takes up tobacco smoking as a teenager. Decades later they have developed disabling COPD. How about this guy? Should he be denied? Too many, even here, would answer "Punish the bastard! Deny him! The quicker he dies the sooner he'll stop leeching off the system."

You either have protection for all, or soon you have protection for none.

[SheilaT]

5. While I can be very judgmental about things like drunk driving

and smoking cigarettes, we need to have a completely non-judgmental SSDI. People like me should not be micro-managing it.

[MADem]

6. Really? An "I don't like the cut of your jib" SSDI?

Sounds like a recipe for exclusion to me.

Leave well enough alone.

[Nye Bevan]

7. I also opposed stripping Nazis of their Social Security.

This would be an awful precedent. Who would be next? Smokers? Drinkers? Fat people?

[unrepentant progress]

8. Aye, I did too, for the exact same reason.

Besides, if ever there was a self-correcting problem, 80+ year old former Nazis collecting Social Security would certainly be it.