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Chicago Gets Its Court on WCIU, The U

Posted on June 20, 2011

Watch ‘The People’s Court’ at 1PM & 4PM and ‘Judge Mathis’ at 2PM & 3PM weekdays on WCIU, The U.
2 Comments
AlexFriday, August 5, 2011 @ 4:57pm
Judge Milian is usually the voice of reason, vision, and wisdom behind any case. However, today I saw an episode in which I think her actions were feeble. In the case with the boy on government disability, I believe she went in too far riding the high horse and publicly humiliating him for being able to get the assistance he was awarded. Who is she to question what he spent the money on? It made it seem that by embarrassing the boy, she was making a statement about the entitlement programs. However, to make a strong point she would need to address why these social welfare programs are so much worse than 90% more money we spend on wars, and other more polluted agendas. Compare to some of the wars we started, these entitlement programs are the light at the end of the tunnel. Market got the bailouts, but personal ones are the subject of public resentment. Just because one is properly employed, they see welfare as the dirty resource that shouldn't exist. But it's the personal bailouts, it's the direct attention to the families that are likely to not survive without this help. It's for people, like this boy, who look Ok on the outside, but are suffering by the second. They have no nationally syndicated TV show, and it is low to put them down. Even, when the case seems obvious that he mismanaged his money from the government, in that case that was his last help, he will pay for his mistakes through his own experience of being broke, and there is no need to act like she is his personal financial advisor. He paid in to his disability benefit through the years of his employment, his pay is directly proportionate to how much money he gave to Uncle Sam ($4,600 back-pay is extremely low, probably less than 5 years of work), and he doesn't need to answer about his cell phone purchase to anyone, especially a mediator who has absolutely no experience with administrative law. It is better this American in need get this money, than his benefit be used to kill innocent civilians in another attempt to show off the military superpower. Bank bailout money was used to purchase boats and jets for SEOs, when they brought in $15 mil. a year, and while they laid off majority of their company staff. Personal bailouts are not bad, they are the entitled appropriations of money to persons who have paid in (just like insurance) monetary premiums to the government, for that rainy day. Even though judge Milian is still my favorite as to common sense and wisdom, as of now I can tell that she feels nothing for the pain of her country, and had never gotten of that high horse.
abbe schumannSaturday, July 9, 2011 @ 12:27pm
info on how to submit a case to peoples court or greg mathis

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