MeadHallPirate
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Almost 60% black, hmmm...I wonder if that's what you would call a Republican county?
ahoy Meathead,
well met, matey. the voters 'o Hale County picked Mr. Obama to thar POTUS.
the thing is, though, only a doctor put someone up fer disability. ye can't just wake up with the idear and do it on yer own.
i figure most 'o the MDs be white in Hale County, aye?
- MeadHallPirate
That may not be the case. Meharry Medical School is in Nashville. That is a large predominately black school. Most of the grads from their medical school are black. There are a fair number of them throughout the south.
ahoy Sunshine me friend,
i did more research (which basically consisted 'o listenin' to the entire "This American Life" segment).
this be what i've found;
almost all the folks who went on disability Greensboro, Alabama (which be in Hale County) were referred by Dr. Perry Timberlake - the only general practitioner in the entire town, and he be white.
he asks his patients, "what grade did you finish?", an odd question, aye?
Dr. Timberlake went on...
"and rarely, rarely...im not sure if ever, did they finish college. alotta them finished the 12th grade, alotta them finished less than that. they've just a high school eduction. there aren't too many sit-down jobs. they just don't get the chance.".
Dr. Timberlake is sayin' 1 in 4 folks in Hale County be disabled because they can't get a job.
he puts'm on disability as an act 'o Christian compassion.
Trends With Benefits | This American Life
'tis interestin', mateys.
the US economy be creatin', roughly, 150,000 jobs per month...this be counterbalanced, to a degree, by the reality that 250,000 americans per month apply fer disability.
*ponders and gazes at the ink black sky...the waxin' moon...a barren harbor*
when i was writin' the OP, i felt sorta angry at all these layabouts in Alabama - a conservative stronghold - a tax welfare state thats nothin' but ballast on our seaworthy vessel...
...but maybe disability be one 'o the many, many devices that hath been set up to protect our most vulnerable. them who lack the education to be productive members 'o our society o'er the length 'o thar lives, because thar be a limit on how much manual labor one can squeeze outta a human being.
so maybe the huge influx 'o folks on disability be a price that we pay fer them who be left behind in a country that be doin' away with blue collar labor (we sent them jobs to places like Bangladesh).
'tis hard to figure what be the right thing to do on this topic.
*frowns*
aye.
- MeadHallPirate
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