Quote - > Quote - JOELGLAINE you do know that Social Security is supposed to pay for your lawyer and not you, right?

I know that.  Unfortunately, that IS part of the problem!  THAT is the reason why Social Security turns down almost 99,62% of all first-time applicants. On appeal, you turned down 86.72% on second  application/1st appeal, UNLESS you have a lawyer! Then the appeal passes at 80%+ (no exact numbers available on that statistic).  It leads to wide-spread graft, corruption and abuses in the whole network.

The payment comes from the payback to first appeal.  My lawyer's pay-off is $6000 from the bulk settlement of back-dated SSI payments with-held in the system.  A LOT of that $6000 goes to kick-backs and bribes to the "right people" to get me onto the system, I'm sure.  No acceptance, they get no money!

I've talked to over one hundred and twelve people about it, and they all agree about the above details. The figures I got from the Bureau of Statistics.

This whole ball of crap makes me sick as an American.  Geez!  It sounds like Russia or Iraq, not America.  I used to be naive, not any longer, dammit.:cursing:

It'll be Saturday before I can respond. The libraries are all closed New Years and Fridays,

Jesus Christ! 

...They just gave 700 billion to incompetent bankers and to wallstreet, while regular people are hurting like this. (EU gave 2.3 trillion euros to greedy bankers). My God! This is insane!  It seems like the whole western world has got it's priorities all messed up. If Joel needs to hire  a lawyer just to get some help, well then the system is truly fucked.  This is not democracy, this is fascism!  And I thought the EU was as bad as it could get....We need to wake up.

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