I posted this tweet
https://twitter.com/rightwordswron1/status1123960581994819586?s=21
on May 2, 2019 in reply to a thread that started in 2014 about scrapping the FICA cap to improve both Social Security and the SSI and SSDI trust funds to keep them solvent. The controllers of 2 accounts in the thread, @mooncatadams and @autsomesmiles whom I have met IRL, have since blocked my account. @autsomesmiles unblocked my account as of an August 25, 2021 profile view.
The tweet shared a post on this blog and the text
"ABLE act only helped SSI beneficiaries if they had rich family or friends to pay into account. @autsomesmiles told me in 2012 picketing autism speaks ppl could get mini-grants for ABLE accts."
An August 24, 2021 blast email from ASAN had, among various asks to write, call by voice or volunteer proxy caller, members of Congress and Senators during recess month to raise the asset limit for SSI 7 years after the ABLE act created accounts to shelter assets from the means test. It apparently was a good assumption to assume #PwDs are frequently living in poverty and their families are too poor to contribute to ABLE accounts after spending their own money to compensate for inadequate LTSS funding at all levels of government. Even the Autistic Women and POC fund fiscally-sponsored by the Autism Women and Nonbinary Network cannot keep up with meeting grant requests. They have had to limit applications to exclude parents of autistics and restricted grants to only autistics applying for their own needs.
- Use our email tools and tell Congress to act now: it only takes a few clicks to urge your members of Congress
- to pass the Keeping All Students Safe Act (KASSA) and the Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act (TCIEA),
- and to include SSI reform
- https://autisticadvocacy.org/actioncenter/ssi/?emci=c25cf948-6500-ec11-b563-501ac57b8fa7&emdi=ea6423e4-1505-ec11-b563-501ac57b8fa7&ceid=7855600
- and funding for home- and community-based services in the next COVID relief bill.
- KASSA would ban nearly all types of restraint and all types of seclusion across the country. It would also require schools to collect data to prevent any further use of these dangerous and abusive practices.
- TCIEA would end the discriminatory practice of subminimum wage, and give states and service providers the resources they need to create better employment support programs.
- Send a letter in support of Massachusetts Bill H.225, which would ban “aversives” like shock torture in Massachusetts, where the Judge Rotenberg Center is located [Canton, MA]..
Perhaps my 2019 tweet that led to 2 blocks, one still in place, was accurate over the long term. The blocks were a result of the person administering the blocking account possibly covering feelings of being 'butthurt' with tone-policing bluntness. The blocking person incorrectly perceived bluntness as 'lack of tact/politeness/respect' and refusing to interact with a person.
One of the replies by @mooncatadams from June 7, 2014 I can still view from a screenshot taken before the block read replying to @NextNewDeal @Sarah_Reynolds and @DaleF3:
"I know, some autistic ppl I know get SSI, and they barely eke by, living with parents or some such."
Even blocking account @mooncatadams knew the correlation and causation of living in poverty with a disability.
After the 2016 election the account @Sarah_Reynolds changed partisanship and supported Republican policies of ex-President Trump and continues to support covid19 vaccine hesitancy and opposition to mask and vaccine mandates to obstruct Pres Biden and the small Democratic majorities to help Republicans in future elections.
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