Update May 04 - 2010 All About "Government Pension Long Term Disability Insurance" By Insurance Experts

If you become disabled through injury, sickness, or other circumstances and have not been able to work for a year (long term disability), then you may be eligible for social security disability insurance (SSDI) benefits. If your application is approved, you can collect the social security disablity insurance benefit until age 65 when is the time the benefit is transfered to the pension program.

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Three Things the Government Does Well

By Mort Greenwood

President Ronald Reagan once said that the words that sends the chills up the spine of most people is this: "I'm from the Government and I'm here to help." I understand that because I work for a defense contractor. I see the messes that the government gets into and the bigger messes it makes trying to get out of the first mess.
The United State government, in particular, is complicated. The very size and budget of the government almost begs there to be waste throughout. There are layers and layers and layers of bureaucracy that would normally be completely minimized in the private industry. But I give the U.S. government credit; they can do a few things well.

1. They collect taxes well. The Internal Revenue Service is renown for collecting taxes. They may not be able to interpret the tax laws that our fine representatives foist on us but they can collect them. Actually, the process is in place for employers to send in their taxes quarters. And in that way the IRS has trained the public well.
2. They have a great paid military. It is often said that the military is good for killing bad people and blowing things up. It is more complicated than that but the government does do those two things well. The military machine is not the most efficient "machine" in the world in terms of expenditures and time it takes to get things done, but it works.
3. Lastly, the U.S. government can send out checks well. It may take a while before pension or disability or Social Security checks come to your door or to your bank, but it's next to impossible to get them to stop once they've started. In fact, there are cases on record that a person has been deceased for years but the relatives are still collecting and cashing checks. This can be said with programs as well. Once they are started, they are all but impossible to stop.

The takeover of our health care system by the U.S. government scares me. It will be bloated, expensive, and expansive.

Mort is an entrepreneur and a business writer. You can read more of his work at Quartz Infrared Heaters or the quartz infrared heaters defined page on that site.

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