Tom Cotton suggests link between Social Security benefits and drug addiction

[LiberalArkie]

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) suggested on Monday that population decline and drug abuse in poor areas could be the result of too many people on Social Security disability.

Speaking to the conservative Heritage Foundation on Monday, Cotton warned that communities with high a percentage of residents on Social Security disability had reached a tipping point that was linked to population decline. But he said that communities which used fewer benefits were enjoying a population increase

“It’s hard to say what came first or caused the other, population decline or increased disability usage,” Cotton opined. “Or maybe economic stagnation caused both. Regardless, there seems to be at least at the county and regional level something like a disability tipping point.”

“When a county hits a certain level of disability usage, disability becomes a norm,” he continued. “It becomes an acceptable way of life and alternative source of income to a good paying full-time job as opposed to a last resort safety net program to deal with catastrophic injury and illness.”

http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2015/11/09/tom-cotton-suggests-link-between-social-security-benefits-and-drug-addiction

[Art_from_Ark]

1. I cannot understand how this blinking fool was ever elected

and by a wide margin at that.

[LiberalArkie]

2. Yea I know, I think it might be easier to find him a boyfriend and a photographer. Old style

Arkansas politics.

[Art_from_Ark]

3. And to think we'll be stuck with this jackass for at least another 5 years

[LiberalArkie]

4. If we had a decent Democratic party in Arkansas he would have been railroaded out of town,

but I think they try to play nice these days. There is something to be said for the Faubus methods of politics.

[yeoman6987]

8. They say 90 million are on SSDI. When I heard that lie, I stop listening to any of it.

[brush]

5. The first I've heard from this fool since the letter to Iran

Guess he's finally found something to jump that he thinks will get him some screen time.

[randys1]

6. White privilege and low IQ has a lot to do with his opinions.

[LiberalArkie]

7. He spends a lot of flight time going back and forth to Kansas.

[47of74]

9. 47of74 suggests a link between dumb fuckery and the United States Senate

All wrapped up into one nasty piece of work called Tom Cotton(mouth).