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Able-bodied people of the right age are just not out there looking for The July jobs. – David Dollar	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Mr. Shaw’s life has been greatly impacted in the worst way, he was once an able-bodied young man before he was assaulted. He can no longer stand or walk. He is a prisoner of his own body. He spends a majority of his day in bed due to the fact he does n’t have the resources to hire a full-time caregiver. POLICE SEARCHING FOR MISSING TEXAS MOM CHRISTINA POWELL, LAST SEEN RUSHING FROM HOME :' MY WONDERFUL CHRISSY'. – Harry Daniels	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I was at the back of the plane. A long2 minutes after that first announcement the pilot madeanannouncementand said ‘all able-bodied menpleasecome to the front as there is an emergency, come to thefront’. – Courtesy Benjamin Curlee	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Donald Trump Jr. is touting baseless election-rigging claims in videos posted to Facebook and Twitter asking' able-bodied' people to join an election security' army' for Joe Biden father, facebook and Twitter affixed labels to the video pointing to accurate information about voting, but neither company said the video violated its election integrity rules in a way that would result in it being removed. Twitter labeled the video only after being asked about it by CNN on Wednesday. The video had been on its site since Monday. – Daniel Dale	Found on CNN 3 years ago
[But]during the pandemic, the Department of Homeless Services has broken its own rules on sex offenders and where they are housed over and over again, within the past month, 700 single, able-bodied males and 100 females have been moved into three hotels overnight. These are not zero-tolerance shelters meaning they are not searched for drugs, paraphernaliaor alcohol, only for weapons. – Curtis Sliwa	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Every able-bodied African American must register for a legal firearm. That's the only way they'll change the law. – African American	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I am of the firm conviction that the success of national defense will not depend much on the armaments nor the training of our able-bodied men but will depend 90% on the will of the people to fight for the country. – Vicente Lim	added by anonymous 5 years ago
The Medicaid program was designed for aged or blind or people living with disabilities, pregnant women and children, but now that we've put all these able-bodied individuals (on Medicaid), the program needs to be changed to be more flexible. People that are living in poverty want a pathway out of poverty. They don't want to be in that situation. And so what we're trying to do with the Medicaid program, with allowing states to develop programs that give people an opportunity for job training, for community service … and giving them the skills that they need. – Seema Verma	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It's just amazing to the see the able-bodied and the paras coming together, we've all become friends, it's just been one big team-bonding experience, i've been exchanging tips with the able-bodied sprinters. Them to me, me to them as much as I can. – Usain Bolt	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The one caveat in this is that every state dollar spent on able-bodied adults in a Medicaid program is one less dollar that can be spent on other programs. This is essentially eating up tons of funds at the state level. – The FGA	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Athletes that participate in our sport are just as tough and committed to the physicality of it as they are on the able-bodied side, there’s certainly a lot of mutual respect because many of these athletes look at each other and share the common bond of having that impairment, but it won’t stop somebody going in the corner with somebody and being physical. – Keith Blase	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
If we as a society aren't willing to deal honestly with issue of race, then we can't just expect police departments to solve these problems, if communities are being isolated and segregated, without opportunity and without investment and without jobs -- if we politicians are simply ramping up long sentences for nonviolent drug crimes that end up devastating communities, we can't then ask the police to be the ones to solve the problem when there are no able-bodied men in the community, or kids are growing up without intact households. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We need to attach work to everything. I don't think any able-bodied person in America should get a penny unless they work. No handouts, no gifts, no welfare. Everything should have work. – Rand Paul	Found on CNN 8 years ago
So we know that Freddie Gray was able bodied when Freddie Gray was in the van and we know that when Freddie Gray was finally taken out of the van, Freddie Gray was unresponsive, we know that Freddie Gray asked for medical attention. We know that medical attention was not immediately requested for Freddie Gray. We know that was a mistake. – Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
He was dragged a bit, but then you see him using his legs to get into the van, so he was able-bodied when he was in the van, and we know that when he was finally taken out of the van, he was unresponsive. – Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The village has been deserted by all able-bodied men, leaving only the old and children. – Adamu Kolomgunna	Found on CNN 9 years ago

Able-bodied people of the right age are just not out there looking for The July jobs.

– David Dollar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mr. Shaw’s life has been greatly impacted in the worst way, he was once an able-bodied young man before he was assaulted. He can no longer stand or walk. He is a prisoner of his own body. He spends a majority of his day in bed due to the fact he does n’t have the resources to hire a full-time caregiver. POLICE SEARCHING FOR MISSING TEXAS MOM CHRISTINA POWELL, LAST SEEN RUSHING FROM HOME :' MY WONDERFUL CHRISSY'.

– Harry Daniels

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I was at the back of the plane. A long2 minutes after that first announcement the pilot madeanannouncementand said ‘all able-bodied menpleasecome to the front as there is an emergency, come to thefront’.

– Courtesy Benjamin Curlee

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Donald Trump Jr. is touting baseless election-rigging claims in videos posted to Facebook and Twitter asking' able-bodied' people to join an election security' army' for Joe Biden father, facebook and Twitter affixed labels to the video pointing to accurate information about voting, but neither company said the video violated its election integrity rules in a way that would result in it being removed. Twitter labeled the video only after being asked about it by CNN on Wednesday. The video had been on its site since Monday.

– Daniel Dale

Found on CNN
3 years ago

[But]during the pandemic, the Department of Homeless Services has broken its own rules on sex offenders and where they are housed over and over again, within the past month, 700 single, able-bodied males and 100 females have been moved into three hotels overnight. These are not zero-tolerance shelters meaning they are not searched for drugs, paraphernaliaor alcohol, only for weapons.

– Curtis Sliwa

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Every able-bodied African American must register for a legal firearm. That's the only way they'll change the law.

– African American

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I am of the firm conviction that the success of national defense will not depend much on the armaments nor the training of our able-bodied men but will depend 90% on the will of the people to fight for the country.

– Vicente Lim

added by anonymous
5 years ago

The Medicaid program was designed for aged or blind or people living with disabilities, pregnant women and children, but now that we've put all these able-bodied individuals (on Medicaid), the program needs to be changed to be more flexible. People that are living in poverty want a pathway out of poverty. They don't want to be in that situation. And so what we're trying to do with the Medicaid program, with allowing states to develop programs that give people an opportunity for job training, for community service … and giving them the skills that they need.

– Seema Verma

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It's just amazing to the see the able-bodied and the paras coming together, we've all become friends, it's just been one big team-bonding experience, i've been exchanging tips with the able-bodied sprinters. Them to me, me to them as much as I can.

– Usain Bolt

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

The one caveat in this is that every state dollar spent on able-bodied adults in a Medicaid program is one less dollar that can be spent on other programs. This is essentially eating up tons of funds at the state level.

– The FGA

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Athletes that participate in our sport are just as tough and committed to the physicality of it as they are on the able-bodied side, there’s certainly a lot of mutual respect because many of these athletes look at each other and share the common bond of having that impairment, but it won’t stop somebody going in the corner with somebody and being physical.

– Keith Blase

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

If we as a society aren't willing to deal honestly with issue of race, then we can't just expect police departments to solve these problems, if communities are being isolated and segregated, without opportunity and without investment and without jobs -- if we politicians are simply ramping up long sentences for nonviolent drug crimes that end up devastating communities, we can't then ask the police to be the ones to solve the problem when there are no able-bodied men in the community, or kids are growing up without intact households.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We need to attach work to everything. I don't think any able-bodied person in America should get a penny unless they work. No handouts, no gifts, no welfare. Everything should have work.

– Rand Paul

Found on CNN
8 years ago

So we know that Freddie Gray was able bodied when Freddie Gray was in the van and we know that when Freddie Gray was finally taken out of the van, Freddie Gray was unresponsive, we know that Freddie Gray asked for medical attention. We know that medical attention was not immediately requested for Freddie Gray. We know that was a mistake.

– Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

He was dragged a bit, but then you see him using his legs to get into the van, so he was able-bodied when he was in the van, and we know that when he was finally taken out of the van, he was unresponsive.

– Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The village has been deserted by all able-bodied men, leaving only the old and children.

– Adamu Kolomgunna

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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