Devnonai, I remember a few years ago he was working part-time for a guy who runs an ammo reloading business, supplying local PD's with practice ammo. My friend would churn out 10,000 rounds or more in a day.
The guy's business was really taking off, and he asked my friend to work more hours.
My friend told him that he couldn't do that without losing his disability.
Obviously, my friend is capable of holding a full-time job.
This guy isn't the only one I know who's scamming the system. Off the top of my head I can probably name three who haven't worked for decades, even though they're perfectly capable.
As for the legitimacy of his claim, I don't want to go into details that might give others here knowledge of who he is. Let's just say that the city dragged its feet, and the judge hearing his disability case got fed up with the city and said "Joe Blow" is disabled.
Maybe it's part jealousy. Maybe it's
all jealousy. All I know is that I've been working as hard as I can for as long as I can remember, and the gubmint has never paid me a dime. Nor did I ask for a dime.
Preacherman, if you can do all of the above that I've described my friend as doing, you need to get a job.
Somehow, I doubt that you can shovel four tons of rock over a weekend, or go mountain biking, or build sheds and other buildings on your property yourself.
I'm paying for this guy's leisurely lifestyle. I'm also paying for many neighbors and acquaintances who like the idea of collecting unemployment insurance during the summer. As the owner of my own one-person business, 3.6% of my pay goes to give those folks a government-sponsored summer holiday.
The least they could do is come over and mow my lawn.
I guess the question boils down to whether you or I are willing to turn someone in for violating a law and, much more importantly, what that law is.
I had a former neighbor who literally had a couple of boxes of M16 trigger groups he brought back home from his days as an armorer in VietNam. Would I turn him in? No. The NFA, and the NFA-related portions of the FOPA of 1986, are laws that are crazy.
But now I'm talking about some folks who aren't just robbing other citizens, but they're robbing me, and at a time when I can least afford to be robbed by the tax collectors.