Ray From Cleveland
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Well see... you are skimming over several issues here. A lot of places won't hire someone that smells like they haven't bathed in a month, doesn't have an address, no transportation, no phone, has clothes full of holes, can't pass a urine test, and suffers from some disabling form of mental illness.
To my knowledge, if you suffer from mental or physical aliments that prohibit you to work, you can apply and go on disability.
Of course alcoholism or drugs is not an impairment that you can claim, but if the only reason these people can't work is because of how they smell or where they live, I'm sure government could take care of that. The problem is those are not the reasons they can't work.
We've had this discussion several times before. You think because you know someone that got disability it is easy to get for everyone... Not only is that wrong, but it is even more so wrong for people with mental illness because it isn't something that can be visually identified.
Who said it was easy? Not me. I do know people on it and they had to make several attempts before successful.
Many homeless people do have mental problems, but there are organizations and religious entities that help those people out. In the heart of winter, we have homeless people walking the streets here too. They have the ability to go to shelters, but they want to live in the street. They don't want to go to those shelters because shelters have rules such as not bringing in drugs or alcohol. Religious organizations usually have sobriety and tobacco restrictions, so homeless people don't want to go there either.
You said you knew someone that got it within weeks on their very first try. You argued over and over with me about it.
No, what I said is she got it within weeks. It was her second attempt. Her first attempt was several years earlier, so on her second application, they took her right away.