Hey, let's say Trump and Mulvaney get rid of Disability. What's the worst that could happen?

[Miles Archer]

And yes, the smiley doesn't fit in a subject line.

Elsewhere in the interview, Mulvaney said he’s working on getting Trump on board with making some changes to Social Security, including the disability benefits program, which he said has “become effectively a long-term unemployment, permanent unemployment program.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/trump-budget-director-i-was-able-to-convince-trump-to-cut-key-program-because-he-didnt-know-what-it-did/

[Lucinda]

1. Other than many of us dying...

I rec clicking through to the full interview on the link above. Interesting reading.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. I wish the populace would get it in their head the GOP wants you dead.

They want you and me dead.

Have for a long time.

[Lucinda]

6. Certainly seems like it.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Trump voters who are on disability want OFF and want to be homeless and die of

starvation.

Apparently.

[superpatriotman]

4. Not true

They want tax cuts for big corporations. That will fix things.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. It is hard to keep track, isnt it.

Here is the funny thing, the GOP can take their disability from them.

Put them in the streets dying, and if they have enough strength to get to the polls on election day, they can be counted on to vote for them, again.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. He would probably be surprised

at how many people on disability would actually rather be working-

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Something like Calcutta, where disabled people beg on street corners.

Disability benefit programs are not long-term unemployment programs! Some people just can't work at all, and never will be able to do so because of their disabilities. Most who are able to work would very much like to do so, since disability benefits are pretty stingy. These bastards are unimaginably cruel. What would they do about a person who has suffered severe and completely debilitating brain damage, for example, or quadriplegia? Do they figure that person's family can take care of them just fine without any assistance? No help with nursing, medication, anything?

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Gee, I thought if someone was disabled, they were unemployable, so

if the disability is permanent then so the unemployment would be as well.

[procon]

10. Is he really that stupid?

Or is he suffering from a bad case of "Affluenza"? Look, if medical professionals have determined that someone is disabled to the degree that their condition is permanent, they qualify for the SSI program because they can no longer work. So, yes, Mulvaney, you moron, that's why we need “a long-term unemployment, permanent unemployment program.”

The alternate is what... is he another self-centered Ayn Rand fan, or does he fancy cosplaying a chapter out of a Dicken's novel? Maybe he enjoys the thought of cities filled with cripples and beggars displaying their open sores and dragging themselves down the street, pleading for loose change and rifling through trash for something to eat. He'd likely give them a kick and laugh, of course, as he passed them by.

[ExciteBike66]

11. It would kill a bunch of Trump supporters

from the Tennessee branch of my family...