Last night I was hanging out in the kitchen and watching tv with my parents. We were watching 60 minutes and they brought up a story about how so many people in America abuse the disability system. Many people claim disability and then receive a check for it, when they really don't have any disabilities beyond maybe back pain or head aches, and as long as they have one of those lawyers like Binder & Binder who will "fight" for them in court, they will get disability checks. While watching this I was thinking about how many people have this idea in their head that so many people abuse welfare, when in fact there aren't nearly as many people who abuse welfare, it's almost none. And the people on welfare need it, because without it they can't eat or take care of families and they can barely even do it with it. Also, most people stereotype that every black single mother or black family is on welfare and are abusing it, however with the disability system, most of the people seem to be white people in the south, the kind who I would imagine are the ones perpetuating the stereotype stated previously. I think it's weird that so many people can abuse the help for disabled people, because there are people who actually need it. And if enough people abuse the disability system, then it will be shut down and made unavailable for the people who actually need it. Another thing I thought about while watching it was something I'd seen earlier that day. While driving with a friend, we saw a man who was severely disabled moving down the road, he could barely hold up his head or keep his hand on the control on his wheelchair. No one helped the man and everyone was looking away from him. We would have helped him but we couldn't. Why wasn't someone there to help him? This man needed help, where was that? Why aren't people like him being given help when they need it so bad.