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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Trump Administration just declared war on social security</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul, Image via Screengrab CSPAN.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Alex Lawson / Independent Media Institute December 18, 2019</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American workers contribute to Social Security with every paycheck. When they do, they are earning comprehensive insurance protections. Social Security insures against the loss of wages due to old age, disability, or (for the surviving family of a worker) death. While Social Security is best known as a retirement program, disability and survivor’s benefits are equally essential.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An attack on any part of Social Security is an attack on the entire system and all current and future beneficiaries. The latest proposal from Donald Trump’s administration, which is designed to rip benefits away from hundreds of thousands of Americans with disabilities, amounts to a declaration of war on Social Security.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Trump administration proposal would require millions of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) beneficiaries to re-prove their eligibility for benefits as often as every six months—far more frequently than is currently the case. </b>There is no justification for this policy. The United States already has some of the strictest eligibility criteria for disability benefits in the world. More than half of all claims are denied.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We should be making it easier for workers to claim the Social Security benefits they’ve earned with every paycheck, not harder. And ripping benefits away from current beneficiaries, who rely on them to survive, is even worse.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We know what the effects of the Trump proposal would be, because Ronald Reagan implemented a very similar benefit cut back in the 1980s. Reagan’s policy ripped away the benefits of 200,000 Americans with disabilities. The New York Times reported that “people with obvious physical and mental disabilities” lost their benefits “without having been interviewed.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ultimately, Reagan was forced to reverse his attack on Social Security after massive public outcry, and bipartisan condemnation from Congress—but not before 21,176 people died, including several who died by suicide, “because their benefits were cut off.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donald Trump himself might not be a diligent student of history, but his advisers—men like Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s chief of staff and a longtime enemy of Social Security—know exactly what they are doing. They want to resurrect Reagan’s Social Security cut knowing full well that it killed people.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This could impact any of us, even those of us who are currently healthy. Imagine that you are hit by a car tomorrow, and suffer life-altering injuries that prevent you from working. You’re faced with crushing medical bills, and you’ve lost your income. In such situations, SSDI benefits are a crucial lifeline. Donald Trump wants to rip that lifeline away.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Trump and Mulvaney are targeting people with disabilities first, because they perceive them as politically vulnerable. B</b>ut if they are allowed to get away with this attack, it will be only the beginning. They want to destroy every part of Social Security, including retirement benefits, and turn it over to their criminal friends on Wall Street.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We must stop Trump’s plan. The Social Security Administration is collecting comments on the proposal until the end of January. You can comment opposing the plan here. Everyone must also call their elected officials. Congressional condemnation played a huge role in forcing Ronald Reagan to reverse his version of the attack, and it can stop Trump in his tracks.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If we let the politicians in Washington, D.C., take away some people’s earned benefits, it means they can take away all of our earned benefits.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alex Lawson is the executive director of Social Security Works, a non-profit advocacy group that supports expanding benefits to address America’s growing retirement security crisis. Lawson has appeared on numerous TV and radio outlets and is a frequent guest host of The Thom Hartmann Program, one of the top progressive radio shows in the country.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div class="gwt-HTML" aria-hidden="false" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div class="gwt-HTML" aria-hidden="false" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p class="yiv9354278233headline3" style="color: rgb(29, 34, 40); font-family: Georgia, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" margin="margin" padding="padding"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click1.e.alternet.org/apyspvlrlwbnbpggnydllnlggyngrhtcswlbdmvddhyk_scsrbplptbmskmjpplm.html?a=&b=3244&c=21989&d=2" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">national disgrace’: Trump proposes Social Security change that could end disability benefits for hundreds of thousands</a></p><p style="font-family: Georgia, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-style="font-style" italic="italic" color="color" rgb="rgb" margin="margin" padding="padding"> </p><p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;">"The Trump administration is attacking another vulnerable population: those who…</p></div><div class="gwt-HTML" aria-hidden="false" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div>=</div><div><h3 class="editorial-compacttitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.9rem; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; line-height: 1.33333; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251);"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limbaugh/rush-limbaugh-claims-democrats-go-out-and-they-find-disabled-people-greta-thunberg" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; color: rgb(22, 28, 36); outline: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Limbaugh claims Democrats “go out and they find disabled people” like Greta Thunberg and Michael J. Fox</span></a></h3><p class="dateline-compact" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.3rem 0px 0px; align-items: center; color: rgb(120, 133, 146); display: flex; font-size: 0.6rem; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; font-family: Barlow, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(247, 249, 251);"><span class="dateline-compacttype" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; height: 1.5em; margin-right: 1em; width: 1.5em;"><svg viewbox="0 0 24 24" class="icon icon--audio" aria-labelledby="icon-label--audio"><use xlink:href="#audio" xmlns:xlink="xlink"><svg id="audio" viewbox="0 0 25 24"><path d="M12 16a4 4 0 0 1-4-4V4a4 4 0 0 1 8 0v8a4 4 0 0 1-4 4zm10-4c0 4.829-3.441 8.869-8 9.798V24h-4v-2.202C5.441 20.869 2 16.829 2 12h4c0 3.309 2.691 6 6 6s6-2.691 6-6z" fill="inherit" fill-rule="evenodd" /></svg></use></svg></span><time datetime="2019-12-13T15:12:05-0500" style="box-sizing: border-box;">12/13/19 3:12 PM EST</time></p></div><div>=</div></div><div class="gwt-HTML" aria-hidden="false" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</div><div>Police Patrolman K. A. Wilkinson, left, and Policewoman H. A. Rodriguez, right, talk with an unidentified young woman near Colfax Avenue and Broadway on July 5, 1978. About 30 disabled persons participated in the protest in which two Regional Transportation District buses were barricaded by wheelchairs. A major traffic jam and three arrests resulted. Colorado Coalition of Disabled Citizens said it was protesting RTD's "discrimination" in not providing transportation for the disabled.</div><div>
</div><div>By DANIKA WORTHINGTON | dworthington@denverpost.com | The Denver Post</div><div>PUBLISHED: July 5, 2017 at 6:00 am | UPDATED: July 6, 2017 at 1:30 pm</div><div>
</div><div>The protesters held control of Sen. Cory Gardner’s Denver waiting room for 57 hours.</div><div>
</div><div>The roughly 8- by 12-foot room felt cramped. The building designers probably didn’t take into account a nine person sit-in that included five wheelchairs — or the supporters who sneaked onto the closed-off floor to bring food and medications.</div><div>
</div><div>The protest was organized by ADAPT, a national organization born in Colorado that has fought for the rights of people with disabilities since the 1970s. The group’s demand was simple: They would leave once Gardner vowed to vote no on the Senate health care bill.</div><div>
</div><div>At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, 11 protesters were on the floor. The waiting room was giddy as the group updated those watching their livestream. The protesters were unaware that police were already en route, unaware that their cheerful banter would soon turn to fervid chants and that they wouldn’t reach hour 58.</div><div>
</div><div>Nine protesters were arrested in Gardner’s office that night. Another was taken into custody downstairs. All were charged with trespassing, while a couple also were tagged with additional charges of resisting arrest.</div><div>
</div><div>Carrie Ann Lucas was the last to be taken away. Her ventilator gave police pause, so they decided to send her to a hospital to be checked and released.</div><div>
</div><div>Police called a Regional Transportation District bus to move Lucas, who uses a wheelchair. As the bus pulled up, a lift dropped down so Lucas could be rolled on. The irony wasn’t missed. The wheelchair-accessible bus that carried Lucas away last week exists because of a similarly dramatic civil disobedience action held by the same group nearly 40 years ago.</div><div>
</div><div>JUL 5 1978 - Two disabled ...Kenn Bisio, The Denver PostTwo disabled demonstrators sit near RTD buses on July 5, 1978, near the intersection of Colfax Avenue and Broadway in Denver. They were among more than 30 persons who barricaded two buses to demand accessibility to transportation.</div><div>Shot heard around the world</div><div>In the early morning of Wednesday, July 5, 1978, protesters waited for an RTD bus. It rolled to a stop at Broadway and Colfax Avenue, one of the busiest intersections in the state. Within seconds, it was swarmed as people in wheelchairs blocked both front and back.</div><div>
</div><div>The group, then called Atlantis, had been talking to RTD for more than a year trying to get wheelchair lifts added to all buses. A new fleet had just been released, but none was accessible. People were angry.</div><div>...</div></div><div style="font-size: small;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990</b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_42_of_the_United_States_Code" title="Title 42 of the United States Code" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">42 U.S.C.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/12101" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">§ 12101</a>) is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil rights" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">civil rights</a> law that prohibits <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination" title="Discrimination" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">discrimination</a> based on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability" title="Disability" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">disability</a>. It affords similar protections against discrimination to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_disabilities" class="mw-redirect" title="Americans with disabilities" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Americans with disabilities</a> as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964" title="Civil Rights Act of 1964" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Civil Rights Act of 1964</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Act_of_1990#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Act_of_1990#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> which made discrimination based on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race(classification_of_human_beings)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (classification of human beings)" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">race</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion" title="Religion" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">religion</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender" title="Gender" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">sex</a>, national origin, and other characteristics illegal. In addition, unlike the Civil Rights Act, the ADA also requires covered employers to provide <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_accommodation" title="Reasonable accommodation" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">reasonable accommodations</a> to employees with disabilities, and imposes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility" title="Accessibility" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">accessibility</a> requirements on public accommodations.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Act_of_1990#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1986, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Council_on_Disability" title="National Council on Disability" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">National Council on Disability</a> had recommended enactment of an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and drafted the first version of the bill which was introduced in the House and Senate in 1988. The final version of the bill was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed_into_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Signed into law" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">signed into law</a> on July 26, 1990, by President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H.W.Bush" title="George H. W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">George H. W. Bush</a>. It was later <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADA_Amendments_Act_of_2008" title="ADA Amendments Act of 2008" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">amended in 2008</a> and signed by President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a> with changes effective as of January 1, 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Act_of_1990#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==
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