Doomsider

I appreciate your interest and research in this matter. When it comes to disability this determination is done at the Federal level through social security. This is how people get disability cash payments which is what most people think of when they say they get "disability".

While you are correct that individual states may have different means testing for SNAP, Medicaid, APA, etc. all cash benefits are mostly tied to this disability determination. Generally all states have strict income and resources limitations and in the case of TANF/SNAP also have work requirements. TANF is also limited to 60 months total in your lifetime.

All this money is usually from Federal sources although states will often be require to match funds. This is also why the rules are very similar since they are often dictated by the Federal government.

There really is no misunderstanding as you yourself admit it happened long ago and the details are murky at best. This is what I would call family mythology and helps to inform your world view. I was just pointing out that there are some inconsistency with this view.

Everything you say is true. You can also trace this form of psychological warfare back to WWII. Propaganda got a real bad rap because of how it was used to manipulate people around the world. It was repackaged and renamed as public relations.

This should have been the tipping point of governments rejecting propaganda and protecting their citizens from its effects. Instead they decided to use the best of psychology and sociology to continue to manipulate people. This is a basic violation of human rights so egregious that any government that allows it has betrayed its own people.

It is amazing how fast their propaganda machines work. They will anticipate breaking stories and provide bullshit lines of reasoning to discredit them before they are even widely shared.

I appreciate your candor about your family members and your illustration of their hypocrisy.

My reply was just to clarify the reality of getting disability and public assistance. You definitely have misconceptions starting with saying your family members moved from state to state until they got their disability status approved.

Disability is approved through Social Security, there is no need or advantage to moving state to state. It is okay to have misperceptions of disability and public assistance. It is pretty normal actually.

I happen to help people navigate these systems everyday for a living. I was working with this woman today whose total income was less than $600 a month.

Apparently, during the last Trump administration the pharmacy at the White House handed Adderall out like candy to all the staffers. Every accusation is a confession.

Yes, their mythology is pretty wild. My wife was raised Mormon and her dad was a bishop for several years which is almost unheard of. I had studied the LDS church for a number of years before I had met her out of curiosity with no intent on joining.

She was not aware of some of their more outlandish beliefs and we would often have discussions about it. One day I explained to her that heavenly Father created Mary through celestial sex with heavenly mother. He came to her in physical form and had sex with his daughter to produce Jesus.

At this point she kind of freaked out and told me that was not true. I told her I am not trying to argue with her and to go ask her parents about it. Her mother told her it was beautiful and her father also confirmed this fact. She cried a lot and I did feel bad for telling her, but it is just the way it is. She eventually got over it and we never joined the Church.

Public assistance does not pay anything but poverty wages. Certainly not enough to move from state to state shopping for the best food stamps and Medicaid deals. While I don't disagree with your judgement of their character I do take issue with "smorgasborg" of government assistance.

Adult public assistance, SNAP, Temporary Assistance for needy families are all very limited. They are resource tested and income approved as well. Not to mention work requirements for any cash assistance except APA. BTW APA benefits are usually around $400-600 a month. Sounds very lucrative considering it is designed to supplement people making less that $1,200 a month in Social Security Benefits.

Anyone who has had to apply for disability knows it is a crap shoot as well. It is common for people to apply over the course of several years before being approved for an amount no human can live off of without subsidized housing. That is if they can even find subsidized housing.

It is not discrimination if we deny all holocausts equally.

I was calculating about $100 billion conservatively to relocate 2 million people. The long term cost could be over a trillion. I wonder why everyone is balking at the idea of taking them in.

Don't worry the Federal government will step .... Oh they just crippled the agency that prevents this. How convenient.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/15/business/nlrb-trump-musk-workers/index.html

Finally we discover the cause of autism. We are coming for you Pluto, you wanna be planet.

That was great. You did forget the part where they have celestial sex and women get to be eternally pregnant. Fun fact, there are only 365 "temple names" and they are based on the date you got your endowments out. I imagine that would create a lot of confusion in the afterlife when husbands call their wife's name (if they choose to).