i aggrey with Geetha. why to think about Canada this way.
At 10:21 AM 12/23/2007, you wrote:
>This might be true with any country in the world, not just canada. No
>country welcomes disabled immigrants with open arms.
>
>Geetha
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>From: "Subramani L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 2:42 PM
>Subject: Re: [AI] Disabled, and Waiting for Justice - New York Times
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>
> > Adding to this, I heard that persons with disability may not be welcomed
> > as emigrants to Canada as they are seen as dependents on medical
> > assistance. The irony is, they allow persons with Type 2 Diabetes since
> > it is considered a common medical problem!
> >
> > Subramani
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of pamnani
> > Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 12:32 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [AI] Disabled, and Waiting for Justice - New York Times
> >
> > For those who love the USKanchan
> >
> > Disabled, and Waiting for Justice - New York Times
> > The New York Times
> >
> > December 11, 2007
> > Editorial
> >
> > Disabled, and Waiting for Justice
> >
> > We know what is behind President Bush's sudden enthusiasm for fiscal
> > discipline after years of running up deficits and debt: political
> > posturing, just in
> > time for the 2008 election. But one should not forget the damage that
> > his administration has also inflicted by shortchanging important
> > domestic programs
> > in favor of tax cuts for the wealthy and his never-ending Iraq war.
> >
> > A case in point is the worsening bureaucratic delays at the chronically
> > underfunded Social Security Administration that have kept hundreds of
> > thousands
> > of disabled Americans from timely receipt of their Social Security
> > disability benefits.
> >
> > As laid out by Erik Eckholm in The Times on Monday, the backlog of
> > applicants who are awaiting a decision after appealing an initial
> > rejection has soared
> > to 755,000 from 311,000 in 2000. The average wait for an appeals hearing
> > now exceeds 500 days, twice as long as applicants had to wait in 2000.
> >
> > Typically two-thirds of those who appeal eventually win their cases. But
> > during the long wait, their conditions may worsen and their lives often
> > fall apart.
> > More and more people have lost their homes, declared bankruptcy or even
> > died while awaiting an appeals hearing.
> >
> > In one poignant case described by Mr. Eckholm, a North Carolina woman
> > who is tethered to an oxygen tank 24 hours a day has been waiting three
> > years for
> > a decision. She finally got a hearing last month and is awaiting a final
> > verdict, but, meanwhile, she has lost her apartment and alternates
> > sleeping at
> > her daughter's crowded house and a friend's place.
> >
> > The cause of the bottlenecks is well known. There are simply too few
> > administrative law judges - 1,025 at present - to keep up with the
> > workload. The Social
> > Security Administration is adopting automated tools and more efficient
> > administrative practices, but virtually everyone agrees that no real
> > dent will be
> > made in the backlog until the agency can hire more judges and support
> > staff.
> >
> > The blame for this debacle lies mostly with the Republicans. For most of
> > this decade, the administration has held the agency's budget requests
> > down and
> > Republican-dominated Congresses have appropriated less than the
> > administration requested. Now the Democratic-led Congress wants to
> > increase funding to
> > the Social Security Administration, and the White House is resisting.
> >
> > Last month, Congress passed a $151 billion health, education and labor
> > spending bill that would have given the Social Security Administration
> > $275 million
> > more than the president requested, enough to hire a lot more judges and
> > provide other vital services. But Mr. Bush vetoed that bill as
> > profligate.
> >
> > Democrats in Congress are working on a compromise to meet Mr. Bush half
> > way on the whole range of domestic spending bills. The White House is
> > not interested
> > in compromise.
> >
> > If the president remains intransigent, federal agencies may have to limp
> > along under continuing resolutions that maintain last year's spending
> > levels. That
> > would likely, among many other domestic problems, crimp any new hiring
> > at the Social Security Administration and might require furloughs,
> > leading to even
> > longer waits. Mr. Bush should back down from his veto threat and accept
> > a reasonable compromise. Both sides should ensure that real efforts are
> > made to
> > reduce these intolerable backlogs.
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