This story is genuinely heartbreaking, and part of the unintended effects of Congress’s ill-informed efforts to “assist” the out of work.
NEW VIDEO: When it pays NOT to work: Generous #COVID19 stimulus benefits inadvertently HURTS the defenseless. Patrick Driscoll, a spastic quadriplegic, tells @kelseybolar @IWF @DailySignal how he’s been left without caretakers– and what that implies for people like him. See ⤵ pic.twitter.com/d3UnU0Lz26
— Independent Ladies’s Online forum (@IWF) March 29, 2021
Kelsey Bolar Senior Policy Expert at the Independent Women’s Online forum shares the story of Patrick Driscoll, who has actually been a spastic quadriplegic considering that he was 19 years of ages. Driscoll is able to live somewhat separately with the aid of assisted care in the morning and night to get him up in the morning, prepare his food, offer him his medications (he has a seizure disorder), 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 benefit amount. Driscoll’s caregivers often showed up late, or more unpleasant, did not reveal up at all.
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As our country gradually vacates “pandemic mode”, and States re-open and disperse the COVID vaccines, we will continue to see the fallout from the unintentional effects wrought by our legislators and chosen officials hurried and inadequately carried out technique to the pandemic.
Unfortunately, the Biden administration continues to double down on the most harmful tenets of these policies, one of them being continuing the boosted unemployment benefits (now $300 a week) through September of 2021.
As my associate Lenny McAlister composed:
Each day, we discover that those in government– from elected authorities to redundant bureaucrats– often work two times as tough to safeguard and implement half-baked ideas of democracy and service as they do listening to their neighbors, safeguarding the greater good more than their self-righteous opinions, and serving the growing diversity of America with a consistent patriotic love for all.
From his bro: “Patrick’s scenarios are an unexpected effect of a well-meaning federal program that no doubt helps many individuals who experience COVID-19 unemployment. The unintentional effect of the program injures those who are most susceptible.”
— Kelsey Bolar (Harkness) (@kelseybolar) March 30, 2021
Driscoll’s story is one example amongst numerous of those who have suffered from these “well-meaning” federal programs.
Driscoll’s family has mounted a GoFundMe account to cover these spaces in his care and assist with the purchase of a brand-new van. Driscoll’s current handicap-accessible van is over 25 years old.
If you would like to contribute, see Assistance Patrick Overcome His Quadriplegia
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