Mari Villar was slammed by a car that jumped the curb, breaking her legs and collapsing a lung. Amy Paulo was in pain from a femur surgery that wasn’t healing properly. Katie Kriegshauser suffered organ failure during pregnancy, weakening her so much that she couldn’t lift her baby daughter.

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    Murica! Land of the if you can’t afford getting hit by a car, your fucked.

    Land of if your disabled, your fucked… even if your were perfectly fine before some rando hit you with a car.

    Unless you have some secret inheritance that makes you rich (billion; not million, that’s not rich 😉)

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      This makes me wonder if DOGE is going after disability payments - I think it’s called SSI? I always thought that social security, SSI, and all of those programs were the same thing, but it seems like it’s a lot more complicated. I know a couple folks who have life-long disabilities and have never been able to work. Without those payments they would just die I guess.

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        SSDI, Social Security Disability Insurance

        SSI is Supplemental Security Income.

        Without those payments they would just die I guess.

        Yeah that’s pretty much the goal from the vicious freaks. Also, the payments for both systems are so low that plenty of them just die anyway as it is currently.

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        doge’s purpose is to suppress wages and working conditions by taking away the few remaining bits and pieces of the welfare state; it’s the american version of british labour’s actions doing the same thing so that they can afford the tax breaks for the rich.