The phrase "able bodied citizens" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing physical capability or fitness, often in relation to civic duties or responsibilities.
Example: "The government encourages able bodied citizens to participate in community service programs to support those in need."
Alternatives: "physically fit citizens" or "capable citizens".
If so, what is needed is a law that encompasses all able-bodied citizens.
"The safety net should never become a hammock, lulling able-bodied citizens into lives of complacency and dependency," Mr. Ryan's budget proposal says.
That would require assistance for those who are physically unable to work in later life but it would encourage able-bodied citizens to keep working.
In this dark comedy, government officials are vainglorious and corrupt and able-bodied citizens brutal and dishonest; the mausoleum, which exactly matches the dimensions of Mao Zedong's mausoleum in Tiananmen Square, is absurdly overblown.
It should go without saying that poverty is not caused primarily by a too generous government safety net that becomes, in Ryan's words, "a hammock that lulls able-bodied citizens into lives of complacency and dependency".
Mr. Daus says "many disabled riders would far prefer home pickup to an uncertain wait on a corner in bad weather"; he is out of touch with a population that has been working to secure the same rights for street hails that able-bodied citizens have.
The reductions in aid to the poor, says the budget blueprint that Ryan released, will be made "to ensure that America's safety net does not become a hammock that lulls able-bodied citizens into lives of complacency and dependency". That's a pretty good description of America's top bankers, but Ryan's budget showers them with tax cuts.
Requiring able-bodied citizens to work in return for health benefits, especially those paid for by their fellow citizens, is just common sense.
We have designed our economy such that it continues to leave millions of able-bodied citizens without jobs and without the means to be able to provide for their own needs and the needs of their families.
And those who do -- those who feel empowered and safe in powerful spaces -- are disproportionately (if not exclusively) white, cis-, able-bodied, citizens with access to significant financial and social capital.
