A thank you to tax-payers from a receiver of disability.

Jaraxo · 3 months

I'd much rather have a system that helped countless people like yourself and your family but a minority abused, than have a system that doesn't help anyone. Though I'm in the UK so maybe I'm biased.

steve-d · 3 months

I am happy for you. It makes me mad how in the US we spend so much money on wars and foreign aid but people right here at home need help and we seem to not care and ignore them a lot of the time.

If my taxes have gone to help you then I am glad some of it has gone to good things.

Crimeodial · 3 months

Hey man, that's what it's for. I know some people abuse the system but I'm always glad to see it help folks like you in a one of need.

austinette · 3 months

When you are ready, please seek out the services of your local Goodwill. They can place you in an appropriate position.

gusshopper · 3 months

Don't feel guilty. You are putting yourself back into a place where you can contribute. Once you are well enough and working, your taxes will go on to help someone else that needs help just as bad as you do know.

I am glad that you had the courage to seek out help in the first place. Too many of us suffering from mental health problems never seek the treatment we need. I have been guilty of this myself.

Unbirth · 3 months

More than happy to do it friend. You are absolutley the reason we have the system we do and I would give more if I knew every bit went to more of this and less of waste and war mongering.

Keep fighting the good (metephorical) fight!

JtheHomicidalManiac · 3 months

Anytime

ktoth04 · 3 months

^__^

bound_morpheme · 3 months

I am so proud of you for how hard you have worked and for the fact that your future plans including being off of disability. You are using the system the way it's mean to be used and, as a taxpayer (and as someone who used to suffer from terrible panic attacks), I am happy to be able to help you get to a place in your life where you can face your future confidently and continue to make strides without taxpayer assistance.

Best of luck to you and your family.

MamaGrr · 3 months

From someone who has seen what OCD can do to a person, I've got no problem helping you out :) I hope your future is great.

EthicalReasoning · 3 months

isn't disability only about $800/month before taxes? how do you live on that?

thekenzo · 3 months

As someone with a disabled daughter, the monthly checks to help cover her expenses really help out. Thanks to all of you tax payers.

rmm45177 · 3 months

I had extreme anxiety about a year ago so I can understand how you feel. My panic attacks would sometimes last more than 12 hours at a time. I was close to commiting suicide because it was just too much for me. Thankfully I got through it though. I know it can be tough, but I'm sure you will too.

Sorry you're receiving hate from some ignorant morons here. Good luck!

mr_jellyneck · 3 months

There is this "self-determination" element to American culture that everyone who works hard will be able to pull themselves up by the proverbial bootstraps, but that's just not reality and hard work doesn't guarantee anything. We need a strong social net so that all members of our society have their most basic needs met. It's right and decent, and I'd want the assistance if I needed it (and maybe some day I will).

poopdedoop · 3 months

You know, It's people like you, who are grateful for the help they receive that makes me feel a little better about disability support money.

I have a hard time believing that people on it actually need it, but from what you've said, offers me a little hope. Let me explain.

My girlfriend's friend is on disability. I don't know her exact problems, but I know she has some anxiety and depression problems (don't we all) anyways, my gf and her roommate are being nice and letting her friend live with them (she has been for a few months now) She gets $1000/month from the government. This for people who don't know, is all she receives, no more, no less. It's to cover the cost of living and other expenses. She doesn't pay full share of rent (only about $250/month and no utilities, she is subletting from someone who hasn't lived in the house for almost a year now) She spends the rest of her money on junk. Over $100/week on weed, She buys a 26er of tequila and vodka every few days, and sit's at home, gets high and drinks. To say the least, I don't like going over there because 1. She's a belligerent drunk who is always high, and 2. I can't stand the smoke (not just weed but she does poppers all the time too)

She has tried to convince my girlfriend to go on disability because she's not getting too many hours at work, and then she could travel with me when I go away for work. Now my girlfriend could qualify for disability (but I'm not going to get into it) but she's more than capable of working and her friend is trying convince her that it's better to be on disability because it's "free money" (as she says) and she wouldn't have to work. This made me almost lose it. I told her that her friend is abusing the system and she is trying to get her to do it as well. The more I see her friend the more notice that she's lost touch with how society works.

She doesn't understand that I can't stay over at my gf's place all the time because I have to work in the mornings, she forgets that people have responsibilities in life, and if it weren't for us that worked, she wouldn't be able to sit on her ass all day and get drunk and high.

End of my rant.

It's nice to see someone, who WILLINGLY wants to thank the people that help them. I'm sure nobody made you post and say thanks, and that shows that you are truly grateful. So thank YOU for being honest, and using the money for what it's meant for.

jeannaimard · 3 months

You should be ashamed of yourself for not being a true-blue Amerikan who willingly chose of his own volition a lifestyle that would have ensured you would be born from a loving family that would have given you good genetic material that would not have left you with disabilities!

This is Amerika, land of the saint-holy personal-responsibility™, where people have to face the consequences of their lifestyle choices without burdening the hard-working people!

Why do you hate Amerika so much?

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Itkovan · 3 months

Thank you for even thinking to say thank you in the first place.

Like others here, I am so much happier thinking about people like you receiving my money than funding wars or being send as "aid" to financially healthy countries like Israel. Makes it a little easier to write that massive check every quarter.

artofwelding · 3 months

Sheila??

Kilk1 · 3 months

My boyfriend is in a similar situation he is agoraphobic and has bad panic attacks. I would do anything for him to get better but I understand that he may never get better but that is okay because I love him too much to care. I'm glad there is a system in place that helps people like you and my boyfriend because without it he would have nothing. I hope everything works out for you.

notjapanese · 3 months

my disability period ends on monday and i'm stoked! broke my kneecap in mid-december and as a server, was unable to work until it healed and i "learned to walk again" haha. there is no way i would have been able to work any sooner than 2/6, in fact i'm a little worried still but i think i'm gonna be fine, i'm staying positive. i never expected to be out of work for 8 weeks straight at any time in my life, and i don't know what i would have don't without this help!

circusnachos · 3 months

I've been working cash jobs for years. I haven't filed a tax return since high school. But just today, I called an accountant and had to repeat myself a few times, "I want to pay taxes. I feel like I've been gaming the system. I want to help support these services." I have a meeting with him on Monday, we'll see how it goes.

It's for people like you that I want to pay my taxes, even though I'm at poverty level myself.

Tygerlily · 3 months

Look, no one is saying you don't deserve it, but the way you "Thanked everyone" isn't great. It sounds more like, I'm spending your money, thanks for giving it to me. I'm sure if you had said, "thanks for letting me be able to contribute to society with your hard working contributions." it's quick and to the point.

r00tbeer · 3 months

I am a Human Service major currently. Some people have difficulty accepting a disability check/food stamps/Section 8 etc but those systems were put in place for a reason. I'm glad it's helping you and your family stay afloat. It's refreshing to see someone show appreciation even if it's a post on reddit. It makes me feel good about what I'll be doing one day. Thank you and the best of luck to you and your family!

VedicCat · 3 months

You're welcome. I hope you enjoy getting out and conquering your life.

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killstructo · 3 months

I'm hoping my mom can get hers here soon I'm tired of trying to cover all the bills by myself and being unemployed doesn't help. Seven applications last week alone still no calls.

IDontHaveTimeForThis · 3 months

You don't need to thank "taxpayers."

you are still a taxpayer, believe it or not. perhaps you have no income, but you still pay taxes. you are still a contributing member of society. you are not a deadbeat, milking the system (hardly anyone actually fulfills that stereotype). every dollar you spend goes straight back into the economy.

you don't need to thank anyone. instead, you should contribute in another way. work to get people elected who will not actively try to dismantle this safety net.

eramos · 3 months

The circliest of circlejerks

suninabox · 3 months

Are your more deserving of help than one of the 90,000+ people who die of malnutrition every day? Then why are you supporting forcing me to pay for you instead of them?

Wait don't tell me, you'd want them to be helped as well, and its not your fault our system only provides help for you so its not your problem. Unfortunately even if you taxed 100% of everything I made there would still be millions of people dying of starvation every year, let alone malaria, diarrhoeal disease and other easily preventable diseases.

But those people don't live in the same country as us, so fuck them.

If your reasoning for why its okay to force me to give you money I've worked hard for is that you "need" help, then I'm afraid you have no business taking any of that money when there are people who die from lack of clean water and food, and not say thousands of dollars of the worlds most advanced medical treatment.

Those people certainly "need" help much more than you do, and its much less expensive to give them the help they need.

If your reasoning for why its okay to force me to give you money, is because you want help more than you care about me or the starving kiddies in africa, then that's okay, it just makes you a selfish asshole (like the rest of us), and I'd like to take the opportunity to throw your thanks back in your face like an ambivalent deity.

Almost certainly your checks could have helped several more people than yourself if given to people in countries where the living costs are a dollar a day or less. I'm assuming you can't get all the help you "need" for a dollar a day.

I'm not sure why you'd bother thanking anyone. They don't have a choice whether they help you or not. Their consent is neither requested nor required.

I guess by thanking them you're trying to persuade more people to support this kind of endeavour. Though you're in luck since most people will be of the opinion that "if it helps even one person" is enough for them to justify any kind of taxation regardless of who it goes to.

If you want to thank me, respect me enough to ask for my help, rather than demand it as right. I've dealt with my fair share of OCD (thank you very much albert ellis and exercise), even contemplated suicide because of it, but I wouldn't have the gall to demand anyone help me with it before they helped one of the millions of people who will die this year from malaria, starvation, thirst, diarrhoea etc

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