http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/sen-tom-cotton-social-security-benefits-cause-people-to-spiral-downward-into-heroin-addiction/
“It’s hard to say what came first or caused the other, population decline or increased disability usage,” Cotton opined. “Or maybe economic stagnation caused both. Regardless, there seems to be at least at the county and regional level something like a disability tipping point.”
“When a county hits a certain level of disability usage, disability becomes a norm,” he continued. “It becomes an acceptable way of life and alternative source of income to a good paying full-time job as opposed to a last resort safety net program to deal with catastrophic injury and illness.”
And according to Cotton, that was just the beginning of the bad news for communities with above average disability claims.
“At a certain point when disability keeps climbing and become endemic, employers will struggle to find employees or begin or continue to move out of the area,” he said. “The population continues to fall and a downward spiral kicks in, driving once thriving communities into further decline.”
“Not only that, but once this spiral begins, communities could begin to suffer other social plagues as well, such as heroin or meth addiction and associated crime.”
put on you hip boots, this is smoke and mirrors, the whole point is double edged cutting SSI and bringing in privatized concerns. making those who they think could bring this about be answerable to their outraged constituents band pass laws to accommodate their agenda. forcing physically challenged people to go through the hell of reappliying to an already predisposed agency to say no.
then there's old faithful drugs destroying the society downward spirals driving communities into crime well they pretty much tool care of that and it's kinda late to switch the blame to the victims oh wait that to has been a staple in their argument against SS recipients.
ask yourself who really would prefer the nominal monies of SSI when you can actually afford life with a job and no one telling you you can't buy meat or ketchup with your food stamps. this is the republicans punishing those who are ill to stop a few who like them cheat no honor among thieves. remember the voter fraud findings .000003% well check out SS stats
