I love australia! that system sounds heartless and frankly, nasty. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pete Theisen Sent: Thursday, 18 June 2009 11:56 AM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [OT] Wage Concessions
Geoff wrote: > you cant walk?? surely that entitles you to a disability pension. it > certainly would here either that or a long term unemployment benefit. Hi Geoff! I *hope* to walk again, however. Accident, you know. It has been a while, though. In the US you have to be completely without income for 6 months to *apply* for disability. The first application is *always* refused, regardless of merit. Then you hire an attorney and sue, if you can. Can't sue until the first one is refused so you are looking at starving to death before it comes to court. Actuarial science is that a certain percentage will die working their way through the system and then the government gets to keep the money. It has been like this forever, nothing to do with either Bush or Obama, everything do do with the fact that congress has already spent the money buying votes and recreating themselves. -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ http://elect-pete-theisen.com/ [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
