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Disability Retirement from Federal Service: By what right?

Posted onJuly 11, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is a question often posed in the dead of night by those who would undermine an assertion based upon an instinctive sense of fairness, but perhaps not able to be articulated in comprehensible form. By what right do you enter these premises? By what right do you express that opinion? By what right do you think you can do that? It is, as with many questions, one that has a sadly contextual background of a negative past – for, whenever a person, a populace or a segment of a greater society begins to assert a “right”, […] Read More …

Medical Retirement from Federal Employment: Life is rarely ‘Just’

Posted onDecember 22, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Is it just? And of the query, what meaning do we ascribe to it? Of one formulation, an implied addendum unspoken – as in, “Is life just about going through the motions, or is there more to it than that?” In another manner of meaning, it can encapsulate the greater paradigms of fairness, balance and equality of opportunity: the ‘just’ is merely an abbreviation of the greater concept of ‘Justice‘ with a capital J. Or, perhaps the duality of meanings is intended – for, in the former manner of speaking, is there not an implicit denotation that the wider connotation is inferred […] Read More …

Medical Retirement from Federal & Postal Employment: The Scraps of Life

Posted onAugust 4, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

But that primary utility and first considerations were always so; if we were inanimate objects able to compete, we would raise our hands and volunteer for the front of the line just to be recognized and implemented. We whine and complain that the dignity and the essence of each soul should be treated not merely as an end, but a means, and thereby treated with respect and empathy. But of our actions; how we respond; what we are willing to surrender in order to be used as mere fodder for the foul play of fantasies left as scrap heaps of history? Are we useful? Of what good are we? Do we make a difference? […] Read More …

Federal & Postal Disability Retirement: Purgatory Reverie

Posted onMarch 4, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

The state of the intermediate, the surreal loss of traction in suspended animation; of trying to jog on ice, or to reach a destination traveling on a treadmill; this is a sense one is left with in dealing with a juggernaut of a bureaucratic morass. In this day of immediacy, where the instant satisfaction of wants and the now of gratifications is met and reinforced by the push of a key, the click of a mouse, and touch of a sensor; and as virtue is no longer looked upon as a necessary ingredient of character, […] Read More …