This story is truly heartbreaking, and part of the unintentional repercussions of Congress’s ill-informed efforts to “assist” the out of work.
NEW VIDEO: When it pays NOT to work: Generous #COVID19 stimulus advantages inadvertently HURTS the defenseless. Patrick Driscoll, a spastic quadriplegic, informs @kelseybolar @IWF @DailySignal how he’s been left without caregivers– and what that indicates for people like him. Enjoy ⤵ pic.twitter.com/d3UnU0Lz26
— Independent Females’s Forum (@IWF) March 29, 2021
Kelsey Bolar Senior Policy Analyst at the Independent Women’s Online forum shares the story of Patrick Driscoll, who has actually been a spastic quadriplegic given that he was 19 years old. Driscoll has the ability to live rather separately with the help of assisted care in the morning and evening to get him up in the morning, prepare his food, offer him his medications (he has a seizure condition), and help him settle in for the night.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and the very first relief package was signed into law on March 27, 2020, it provided enhanced joblessness of $600 a week ($ 2,400 a month), on top of the state’s weekly advantage quantity. As soon as this was implemented, Driscoll began experiencing problems with his house healthcare provider. The organization had a hard time to keep staff because it ended up being more profitable for caretakers to remain at house rather than go to work. Driscoll’s caretakers often got here late, or more troubling, did not show up at all. This has adversely affected his health because it has actually interfered with the timing of his medications, which are essential to his ability to work.
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As our country steadily vacates “pandemic mode”, and States re-open and distribute the COVID vaccines, we will continue to see the fallout from the unintended repercussions wrought by our lawmakers and chosen officials hurried and inadequately executed approach to the pandemic.
Unfortunately, the Biden administration continues to double down on the most damaging tenets of these policies, one of them being continuing the improved welfare (now $300 a week) through September of 2021.
As my associate Lenny McAlister wrote:
Each day, we discover that those in government– from elected officials to redundant bureaucrats– typically work twice as difficult to defend and implement half-baked ideas of democracy and service as they do listening to their neighbors, defending the higher excellent more than their self-righteous opinions, and serving the growing variety of America with a constant patriotic love for all. The failure of equality, stability, effectiveness, and transparency throughout 2020 from the various regional, statewide, and federal leaders that have actually talked and acted in duplicitous and disjointed ways need to highlight more than ever the requirement for excellent females and men to hold federal government liable day-to-day. Stories such as the failure to provide a hand up during a time of excellent need in Pennsylvania must reflect to all Americans that the standard property of our democracy– that a lesser amount of federal government and a greater quantity of “sweat equity” from Americans can allow resources to stream faster and better– is what we require more to make it through the pandemic and sustain as the geo-economic and geopolitical leader of the globe.
From his bro: “Patrick’s scenarios are an unforeseen repercussion of a well-meaning federal program that no doubt helps countless individuals who struggle with COVID-19 unemployment. The unintended effect of the program hurts those who are most susceptible.”
— Kelsey Bolar (Harkness) (@kelseybolar) March 30, 2021
Driscoll’s story is one example among a number of those who have experienced these “well-meaning” federal programs. Our government appears to be on an objective to incentivize welfare and reliance rather than “sweat equity”– Americans keeping and building their businesses, and empowering each individual to earn a living. As we enjoy local and state federal governments adopt more policies that include a guaranteed basic earnings and a universal fundamental income, we will sadly see these stories increase, instead of decrease.
Driscoll’s household has actually installed a GoFundMe account to cover these spaces in his care and assist with the purchase of a brand-new van. Driscoll’s existing handicap-accessible van is over 25 years old.
If you would like to contribute, visit Aid Patrick Overcome His Quadriplegia
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