There is a bill up before the House and Senate calling for the repeal of this act and has over three hundred co-sponsor’s including the President of the United States while a U.S. Senator from Illinois. This Bill is in committee with little chance of seeing day light.

Retired Officers met with a representative of our congressman, one of the Officers was a Viet-Nam vet, wounded several times and worked for caterpiller for ten years before joining the department, His Social Security is reduced.

Please contact your Senators and Representatives, and have them take this bill out of committee and vote on it.

Thanks for taking the time to post. Ending the handouts would be fantastic…hunger is an excellent motivator…but I don’t imagine we will see that soon. There are plenty of people who actually need help, but we rarely see those people, because they are not standing around with their hand out.

–Richard

As one tough old vet told me while we sutured his 6-inch work-related laceration, “Since when is gettin’ drunk a disability? When I was that age we called that bein’ stupid, and you got your butt handed to you, not a check.”

Consolation is when the handouts end so will most of these lowlifes, because they have literally never done anything for themselves in their lives. If they’re not real good with weapons they won’t be able to roll the rest of us. They will sit home and whine until they starve or dehydrate, still waiting for “somebody” who has an obligation to support them. Maybe then we can use any surplus we have to help out folks who actually are needy and deserving, as it should be.

Thanks for what you do for us every day. When you reach the point of sitting it out, you can look back and see that your work meant something, and you will have earned every single penny that comes to you and then some.

This will get you really torqued up: there is a billboard in my city trying to get more people to sign up for the free, government-provided phones. So, we are spending money on the phones PLUS advertising to get more people in on the deal. It’s a racket.

–Richard

Not only do I pay for them with my current salary, but all the money I put in the system prior to law enforcement goes to them too.

And I thought I was being the smart one…

Thanks for the laugh. Your sarcasm is well-taken.

Kevin,

Excellent point. The problem is trusting the SSA to properly administer a pee-test. Frankly, I don’t think I trust the feds to manage that without multiple layers of oversight committees, etc.

Oh well…

–Richard

/end sarc