Intellectual Disability?

They are smart enough to get to the trough and to elect politicians that keep the trough supplied.

The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire

Let me fix that sentence for you.

THIS is what poverty sometimes looks like in America: This is what government dependency looks like in America; parents here in Appalachian hill country pulling their children out of literacy classes. Moms and dads fear that if kids learn to read, they are less likely to qualify for a monthly check for having an intellectual disability.Many people in hillside mobile homes here are poor and desperate, and a $698 monthly check per child from the Supplemental Security Income program goes a long way — and those checks continue until the child turns 18.

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