Our Most Important Video Yet

Junkyard Mayhem with Squirmy & Grubs

YEA Networks

Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

We are back from our vacation in Door County and oh boy... we have stories for you. But first we have something need your help on. Finally, we have another round of Am I the Asshole? We would really like to know what you think because we are split on this one.

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0:00.0	Yeah, networks don't ever fade around me. And if you do, do not fall on anything
0:09.5	important. Fall somewhere that's in this thing. Okay.
0:19.8	Hello everyone. Welcome back. This is your mayhem episode 10 billion. Wow.
0:26.8	We have an important headline. We do. We have a fun episode. We just came back from our
0:32.9	door county trip. We're going to tell you some really funny and upsetting and all kinds of
0:39.0	things that happen on the trip. And then at the end, we're going to do an M.I.D. asshole
0:44.5	reading and, you know, discussion. But first, we do have a very important headline. First,
0:49.8	here are the keywords for what you're about to hear. What? Advocacy. Disability. Important.
0:57.7	Big. Monumental. Listen up. Help. Advocate. That's a lot of keywords. Disability.
1:07.3	House of Representatives. Bill. Bill. Legislation. Okay, shame. Pay attention.
1:14.4	Okay, so we are going to put the link to this web page in the description below or wherever
1:20.7	you're listening watching. It'll be in the description box. Okay, so you can find the link there.
1:26.5	The headline, basically, is that there is a bill that has been introduced in the House of
1:31.0	Representatives that would increase the asset limits for people on SSI. That is the headline.
1:37.3	We will now go into detail about what that means. Yeah, we need to give context on almost
1:43.1	every word in that sentence. Yeah, but it's very, very, very important. If you don't know,
1:47.7	people on SSI, which is supplemental social security, which is a way that many disabled people
1:53.6	are able to believe it's for paying for their lives. Disabled people, people who are older
1:58.8	and have almost no income or assets. And to qualify for this, you have to have less than $2,000
2:05.5	in assets to qualify. If you ever go above that amount, you immediately lose that money.
2:11.6	And then you have nothing. And this is the way that disabled people are forced into
2:20.2	cells of poverty that they cannot escape from because they need the SSI to pay for their food
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