Tim May wrote:

> In article <8IO6b.57856$uG.43014@fe08.atl2.webusenet.com>, Don Steiny
> <steiny@infopoint.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Workers comp pays for *unlimited* chiropractic visits.   Being as
>>there is no study that has even been done that shows that chiropracters do
>>anyone any good, this is an amazing waste of money.  I have a friend
>>that calls chronic back pain "deputy sherriff's disease" because of his
>>belief that the majority of the cases are manufactured for disablity benefits
>>purposes.
> 
> 
> Many of the people I talk to in the jacuzzi or steam room at my health
> club say they "are on disability." They don't seem obviously disabled
> to me...they swim, they use the exercise machines, they move
> unencumbered into and out of the jacuzzi. But they've gotten some
> pliable doctor to declare them disabled.
> 
> Someone I know is rapidly losing his work ethic as he watches two of
> his former friends scam the system on "disability." One guy did a tour
> of duty in Vietnam 30 or so years ago. After he had a heart bypass
> operation two years ago, he started getting $1000/month tax-free. Some
> kind of Army gravy train. I'm unclear on the details but it sounds like
> this is a never-ending benefit. He also gets California benefits. He
> lives in his camper and drinks up his monthly benefits. A great way to
> head off heart disease: pay for this guy to be a raging alcoholic and
> sedentary junk food eater, while all the while making him more and more
> unemployable should his "disability" ever run out.
> 
> His other former friend scams the system for food stamps, Section 8
> housing benefits, and is talking to lawyers to find a way onto the
> Great American Gravy Train.
> 
> This isn't just a California thing.
> 
> --Tim May
You're hanging around with the Democrats. That's why they want to raise 
the taxes of the people who work for a living. To support themselves.
Call Michael R. McAfee, he wil send you the $50 bucks a month that he 
feels he is undertaxed.