This story is genuinely heartbreaking, and part of the unintentional effects of Congress’s ill-informed efforts to “help” the out of work.
BRAND-NEW VIDEO: When it pays NOT to work: Generous #COVID19 stimulus benefits accidentally INJURES the powerless. Patrick Driscoll, a spastic quadriplegic, informs @kelseybolar @IWF @DailySignal how he’s been left without caretakers– and what that means for individuals like him. View ⤵ pic.twitter.com/d3UnU0Lz26
— Independent Women’s Forum (@IWF) March 29, 2021
Kelsey Bolar Senior Policy Analyst at the Independent Women’s Forum shares the story of Patrick Driscoll, who has actually been a spastic quadriplegic considering that he was 19 years old. Driscoll has the ability to live rather independently with the aid of assisted care in the early morning and night to get him up in the morning, prepare his food, give him his medications (he has a seizure condition), and assist him settle in for the evening.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and the first relief bundle was signed into law on March 27, 2020, it offered enhanced joblessness of $600 a week ($ 2,400 a month), on top of the state’s weekly advantage quantity. Driscoll’s caretakers often arrived late, or more unpleasant, did not show up at all.
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As our nation progressively moves out of “pandemic mode”, and States re-open and disperse the COVID vaccines, we will continue to see the fallout from the unintended repercussions wrought by our lawmakers and chosen officials hurried and poorly executed approach to the pandemic.
Sadly, the Biden administration continues to double down on the most damaging tenets of these policies, one of them being continuing the boosted welfare (now $300 a week) through September of 2021.
As my associate Lenny McAlister wrote:
Every day, we discover that those in federal government– from elected authorities to redundant bureaucrats– often work twice as difficult to defend and carry out half-baked concepts of democracy and service as they do listening to their neighbors, protecting the greater excellent more than their self-righteous viewpoints, and serving the growing variety of America with a constant patriotic love for all. The failure of equality, stability, efficiency, and transparency throughout 2020 from the different local, statewide, and federal leaders that have actually talked and acted in duplicitous and disjointed methods should highlight more than ever the requirement for excellent women and men to hold federal government liable day-to-day. Stories such as the failure to use a hand up during a time of excellent requirement in Pennsylvania need to show to all Americans that the fundamental facility of our democracy– that a lesser amount of government and a greater amount of “sweat equity” from Americans can allow resources to stream faster and much better– is what we need more to survive the pandemic and sustain as the geo-economic and geopolitical leader of the world.
From his sibling: “Patrick’s circumstances are an unanticipated effect of a well-meaning federal program that no doubt assists numerous individuals who struggle with COVID-19 unemployment. But the unintentional consequence of the program injures those who are most vulnerable.”
— Kelsey Bolar (Harkness) (@kelseybolar) March 30, 2021
Driscoll’s story is one example among a lot of those who have struggled with these “well-meaning” federal programs. Our federal government seems to be on a mission to incentivize well-being and reliance rather than “sweat equity”– Americans preserving and constructing their businesses, and empowering each person to make money. As we see local and state governments embrace more policies that integrate an ensured basic earnings and a universal standard income, we will unfortunately see these stories increase, rather than reduce.
Driscoll’s household has installed a GoFundMe account to cover these spaces in his care and help with the purchase of a brand-new van. Driscoll’s current handicap-accessible van is over 25 years of ages.
If you want to contribute, see Assistance Patrick Overcome His Quadriplegia
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