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Remember that high school teacher who, when explaining to the class how to state a thesis and then support it, would caution you not to use generalizations as oppose qualifiers?

Don’t say “all”, “every”, “everyone” when you actually have no idea of the totality of the group you are referencing, but use “some”, “many”, or “most” instead.

Remember when you told your mother that she should let you go to the  mall or a party because everyone you knew was going to be there, and she shot you down by telling you she wasn’t, so you didn’t get to go?

That might have worked with your friends when you were a kid, but it is not only ineffective as an adult, but it gives people the excuse they need to just dismiss you outright.

When politicians who want your support do it, you have to ask if they are that clueless, or do they think you are.

Right now Social Security is being targeted by the GOP, and in the process of justifying their attacks, they need to convince people there is a problem that they are hoping to remedy.

They want to shift money around, and to do that they need to show that there is something wrong with the Social Security Disability program, and, just like with their claim they needed to make voting difficult because of all the (nonexistent) voter fraud, they need to convince people that SSDI is riddled with abuse and fraud.
They want people to believe the system’s frauds are out of control, and the best way to do that is to just say it is so, and bank on people just believing them.

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“Over half of the people on disability are either anxious or their back hurts. Join the club. The thing is, in all of these programs there’s always somebody who’s deserving. But everybody in this room knows somebody who is gaming the system.

What I tell people is, if you look like me and you hop out of your truck, you shouldn’t be getting your disability check. Over half of the people on disability are either anxious or their back hurts. Join the club. Who doesn’t get up a little anxious for work every day and their back hurts? Everybody over 40 has a little back pain.”

Apparently the good doctor, who is certified by the Board of Ophthamology he created because he could not be by the Board that existed, doesn’t know there are more disabilities than just those what have physical signs.

He is also not aware that the official figure of the General Accounting Office of those found to be gaming the system is about 1%. Far fewer than half.

I guess for him  veterans just do not need assistance if they suffer from PTSD, but still have all their limbs?

He feels he can just pull figures out of thin air, talk in hyperbolic generalities, refer to an unidentified and misty group of people that everyone knows a member of, and people will just accept it because he said so.

Sadly, many will not only accept it, but will defend him for saying it.

 

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