The Capitalist Pigs' New Plot to Screw the Disabled

Say what you want about the New York Times, but this one is important. The Capitalist Party of the United States is proposing yet another attack on people with disabilities:

The Trump administration’s proposed regulation, released in early October, would unfairly harm people with disabilities and their families in their efforts to live permanently in the United States. The “public charge” regulation would apply to immigrants already on the lawful road to citizenship, including applicants for permanent residence (a “green card”) living in the United States, and individuals outside of the United States, such as family members of American citizens seeking admission to the United States. While the concept is older than today’s modern immigration law, President Trump’s regulation would radically expand it in dangerous ways. (Public charge is a term used to describe a person deemed to be primarily dependent on government assistance.)

That's right. The Dipshit Cabal and their Democrat collaborators are going to use immigrants in order to attack the disability community as a whole. Here's how else they're planning to do it:

Hearkening back to the dark history of anti-immigration policies, the public charge proposal spells out five “heavily weighed negative factors” that would make having a disability a strong basis for denial. In typical Trump fashion, the proposal privileges wealth, fast-tracking individual applicants who can provide evidence of annual incomes 250 percent above the federal poverty line, which for a family of four is about $63,000 annually. Thus, the proposal’s fundamental injustice of deliberately excluding people with disabilities, who are disproportionately likely to live in poverty, is compounded by the abuse of equating wealth with worth.

The proposal also attacks some immigrants with disabilities and their families already living in the United States who are already contributing to the culture and economies of American communities. As The Times has reported, the regulation would put a person’s lawfully obtained immigration status at risk if he or she uses — or even applies for — Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly Food Stamps), Section 8 housing assistance or other public programs.

Who else will be fucked by this scam? That's right, direct care workers:

Mr. Trump’s assault on the disability community isn’t confined to immigrants. All Americans with disabilities — immigrants and citizens alike — would be harmed by the public charge regulation, because of its consequences for the health care and personal care provider work force. According to the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute, about one-fourth of direct care workers in America are immigrants. And about 40 percent of all direct care workers meet their own basic needs with help from Medicaid, SNAP or other public programs. If finalized, the public charge regulation will mean fewer people able to provide the care that seniors and people with disabilities need to live full lives and contribute to their communities.

The Times article goes on to say that disabled children will also be fucked by this because we'll never amount to a god damned thing, according to the pigs and the brainwashed workers who believe this rhetoric.

While the Times article also points out that this proposal hasn't passed yet, it most certainly will. Mark my words. Even if it doesn't pass under Dipshit, the Democrats will most likely do it anyway. After all, The Democrat wing of the Capitalist Party has been far more successful at doing things even the most evil Republican apparatchik of the American Capitalist Party could only dream of.

But don't worry, I'm sure our Capitalist Party bootlickers are working hard to come up with training programs for jobs that will never, ever exist for people with disabilities. After all, only the most well off, well connected, well adjusted, able-bodied douchebags with perfect insurance, perfect credit scores, drivers' licenses and their friends are allowed to get jobs that actually pay with half-decent benefits.

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Culling the herd.

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Deja's picture

For as long as I can remember, "legal" immigrants have to prove they won't need public assistance. They also have to have a sponsor and a job before they are allowed to legally live here, and they can't get public assistance.

Public charge has been part of U.S. immigration law for more than 100 years as a ground of inadmissibility and deportation. An individual who is likely at any time to become a public charge is inadmissible to the United States and ineligible to become a legal permanent resident. However, receiving public benefits does not automatically make an individual a public charge. This fact sheet provides information about public charge determinations to help noncitizens make informed choices about whether to apply for certain public benefits.

Some noncitizens and their families are eligible for public benefits – including disaster relief, treatment of communicable diseases, immunizations, and children’s nutrition and health care programs – without being found to be a public charge.

https://www.uscis.gov/news/fact-sheets/public-charge-fact-sheet

I'm not giving NYT a click to go see what is "different" from what's been on the books for over 100 years, so if anyone else wants to do that, and post what is actually different, I'd certainly appreciate it.

As for paid caretakers getting some new punishment, I don't see it as "new" or worse than it's always been. Caretakers have always been paid shit. Caretakers (including childcare workers) have always been undervalued. We apparently don't care enough about those who need care to value or pay the grunts who do it enough to live on. Not something we should be proud of, certainly.

Same old, same old, unless I'm missing the new part that makes it worse.

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@Deja
I looked into emigrating to Canada once (I don't remember why) and found that I could not qualify unless I had a degree in Agriculture. (apparently before they started digging every square yard of land that wasn't built on or paved they had a shortage of farmers) (when corn and wheat and soybeans won't grow in the US - in about 10 years - don't expect Canada to bail us out. they'll be too busy contributing to global heat death to help)
And in about 5 years being a caretaker is going to be about the only job left. We better start doing something about the pay scale for them right now.
Actually Aspie, it's not you they're going after, you're collateral damage. It's immigrants they're going after.

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On to Biden since 1973

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disregard for anyone who needs a little help (and who doesn't at some point in life?).

And then to claim that they are Xians?? Don't make me laugh. If anything, they should be increasing disability payments and expanding the safety net. Never happen, I know, but geezus -- I can't for the life of me imagine how this is supposed to make the country great.

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Hell is empty and all the devils are here. William Shakespeare

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@moneysmith

which he received after his dad died and it helped get through college.

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And taking care of the elderly and those who are less fortunate than others. This is what puts the lie to people who say that they are pro life and yet vote to gut the safety net, is pro death penalty and vote for war and refuse to prosecute war criminals.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.