Entitled to those things because his millions of dollars proved that he was a cut above ordinary people, a product of conservative meritocracy, the kind of person best qualified to lecture the masses on Christian values and how to run government.
Degeneracy is conservatism by another name.
He dispatched crews of âConn Hottiesâ to events and had a 19-foot replica of the Lincoln Memorial erected in the parking lot of his office.
Nice.
This is a big win. When people complain that Social Security is rife with fraud, this fellow (and many of the claimants he represented) was the poster child.
https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/mr-disability/?_r=0
And wrapping himself in the flag and Lincoln really added insult to injury. Though possibly less so than many of his clients, who say they were stunned to find out that there was gambling going on â er, fraud. I firmly suspect that many of them were fully complicit.
This type of fraud threatens SocSecy for all, since it is served up as the example of how âSocial Security is bankrupting the country while recipients laugh all the way to the bank.â Everything should be disgorged and appropriate punishment meted out for all who participated in the fraud.
Does he have any connections with Mitch McConnell?
Wonder who he voted for on November 8.
I have a hunch it wasnât Hillary.
And the folks who got false SSI benefits⌠voted for trump because they didnât like folks getting Obamacare. Throw them all in jail.
Will any trump supporter, or âconservativeâ see any irony in this case? Donât bet on it. Throw him, and his clients, in jail.
âIâve got to get these people money quick,â Pillersdorf said. âIâve got 800 people going without, and itâs a real humanitarian crisis. His guilty plea should expedite that process.â
As part of the fallout from Connâs downfall, the Social Security Administration identified about 1,500 beneficiaries, mostly in eastern Kentucky, who could receive hearings to determine if their benefits should be reinstated, he said. The agency decided not to cut off those payments during that process after Republican U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers interceded.
Now, those hearings are nearly complete, and so far about 800 have lost their benefits, Pillersdorf said.
800 folks that shouldnât have gotten benefits in the first place. Hmmmm⌠I am sure there is an appeals process you can use. Or try the republican method of finding your inner bootstrap. They say it works for single mothers and infants.
Folks, this is where all the BLUE state tax revenue goes, to all the RED state free-loaders and scammers.
âDisabilityâ has been âUniversal Basic Incomeâ in Kentucky, Kansas and other poor (often red) states for decades. There are no jobs, and SSI has become what people do for money.
And with all their free time, the rail against the government and fume on Breitbart in fits of self-delusion and so people donât catch on that they derive all sustenance by sucking on Auntie Samâs teat.
This Conn guy was only able to run this scam to this level because the numbers were plausible in his area.
They were interviewing a chiropractor in Wichita on MSNBC this morning. Sent a reporter to do a story on the repeal FAIL and visited a free clinic where many people get care. It probably wouldnât have been able to remain open if the ACHA had passed, so they wanted to interview people about that. The Executive Director said they were overwhelmed by the number of people they saw each day.
I only watched for a few, but the chiropractor said he couldnât afford health care on the exchanges and didnât qualify for Medicaid, so he went to the free clinic, too.
He must not be a very successful chiropractor. The ones we know about are doing pretty well financially.
This scam has been the conservative electorateâs jobs program. Not just KY, WV, IN, OH, PA MI, the south - then they get to call themselves âself employedâ while they do whatever menial job they can get all while calling the rest of us âtakers.â
And they wonder why we now hate fly over country.
Everyone who got a check should now have to pay it back.
And they should be made to pay the money back.
Oh, I wouldnât be too sure. After all, a guy who makes his living defrauding the gov and the American people of Social Security and disability money has some reason not to vote for the party that would really like to get rid of the social safely net in toto.
Hell no - round them up and make them do the jobs the deported Mexicans did.
Someone has to pick my lettuce. And they all need to lose some weight and some attitude.
Time for a real jobs program for these Trumpanzees.
Thatâs right. I know a lawyer who helps companies fight union labor and ALWAYS votes democratic.
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There are no jobs, and SSI has become what people do for money.
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While I donât condone fraud, I do have some sympathy for desperate people.
My soon to be nephew-in-law is the sweetest guy you ever met, and he and my niece were dyed-in-the-wool HRC supporters.
But he makes his (handsome) living in a San Fran law firm working for big corporations in labor disputes.
Yeah, but people vote for a candidate for a myriad of reasons, and are able to overlook a lot of stuff they disagree with if thereâs some other quality that they find appealing. I donât think that the 53% of the white women, for example, who voted for Trump really were endorsing the wholesale grabbing of female genitalia by men.
Even if Trump took it that way 
The old saying about blood and stone comes to mind.
I donât even begrudge them the money, really. I donât like it when they mindlessly vote for Trump and his ilk tho, and try to punish minorities and immigrants for being minorities and immigrants.