Speaking of investigating who gets money, I knew of a woman who got injured on the job a few years back and went on Worker's Comp. It was almost comical, the number of service people showing up at random times in various nondescript vans and so forth, just happening to stop on the street near her house. It was like a bad detective show. Once she went back to work, the traffic lightened considerably. Howscrewed up is that? Somebody who works and get injured, using the benefits she paid taxes toward, getting spied on in hopes of catching her stooping to pick up a newspaper or something. Meanwhile, we have grown men and women getting handouts no questions asked, and "high-end" freeloaders taking paid vacations due to "heart attack scares" and so forth. So there is plenty of money to harrass hardworking taxpayers, evidently, if they fall on hard times, but no one to check up on the designated needy. New Yorkers are caught in the middle of two layers of takers.
Speaking of investigating who gets money, I knew of a woman who got injured on the job a few years back and went on Worker's Comp. It was almost comical, the number of service people showing up at random times in various nondescript vans and so forth, just happening to stop on the street near her house. It was like a bad detective show. Once she went back to work, the traffic lightened considerably. Howscrewed up is that? Somebody who works and get injured, using the benefits she paid taxes toward, getting spied on in hopes of catching her stooping to pick up a newspaper or something. Meanwhile, we have grown men and women getting handouts no questions asked, and "high-end" freeloaders taking paid vacations due to "heart attack scares" and so forth. So there is plenty of money to harrass hardworking taxpayers, evidently, if they fall on hard times, but no one to check up on the designated needy. New Yorkers are caught in the middle of two layers of takers.
Your facts are a little off. Private businesses pay comp insurance on their employees. Comp fraud is rampant and a huge expense. Investigators are paid for by the private business and the insurance company. Welfare fraud isn't policed because the government has an unlimited budget in way of the taxpayer, unlike private business. Policing fraud would hurt the political classes potential voters. It's politically beneficial to ignore wefare fraud and instead convince the people to continue to pay for it.
Oh, I agree fraud is a big problem for employers. I'm just pointing out that private workers who get hurt, and remember, they've been paying taxes into the state coffers to oversee this program, they get treated like criminals sometimes while those who have basically been loafing all along, that's okay, nobody is watching, your money is free. That's screwed up. And OUR employees, the ones who get to take nice vacations until some citizen gets fed up and blows the whistle, we should have detectives looking at them as well. That should be somebody's job, keeping track of who's out, and so forth, because when it gets left up to city government they cover for each other. We do have a state inspector general office, but I don't think they get down as far as local governments. In fact I don't really know that they do much at the state level either.
I say why hurt your back for some 'rich guy/gal' doing their menial labor when the government makes them pay for comp/disability just in case the voter base gets hurt...
because as a sloven worker once your back is hurt it pretty much sucks to be you....as for the 'rich guy/gal' who hurts their back playing squash, it really doesn't f'en matter to them....
but guess what, the slovenly worker can get welfare AND the 'rich guy/gal' can get corporate welfare
what a FU(KED up system we have
we all plow the government fields as indentured servants......
we call it civilization as long as the votes keep coming to the 1%ers....aaaahhhh remember remember the 5th of november
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
That's what I think bothers me about this, senders. You're somebody actually working, you hurt yourself, and you are basically on your own to duke it out privately with the boss who doesn't want you to have 'help' because he's paying for it, but we have all these non-working, non-injured people gettinghandouts. The injured worker and the boss both have to pay for the big freeloaders, but someone really deserving of 'help', they get locked in a struggle.
Logged
