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In reply to the discussion: Actually I am scared shitless. [View all]Mountain Mule
(1,002 posts)This country is barbaric. There's no other word. I eventually ended up homeless after I was denied SSDI the first time around. I ended up camped out up in the mountains about 30 miles from the nearest small town. I knew that I'd never make it thru the winter, but the wait to go before an appeals judge was two years. I can remember standing at a pay phone in that little town and calling up the legal office for SSI/SSDI back in the big city which just so happened to be my home town and asking that my case be expedited. When I finally got through I told the low level clerk who answered, "I want to talk to one of your bosses who is having a 3 cocktail lunch at McKenna's (a ritzy eatery across the street from their offices) while you field the calls and screams from the dying." That worked. She put me in contact with the SS appeal's judge's personal secretary, and I had my hearing the very next month and my claim was approved. This is what the wealthiest country in the world reduces its disabled citizens to. And now Ryan and the Idiot are going to make it worse - far worse.