Would could be done to winnow the disability roles and prevent a permanent use of this as welfare?
More and more riding in the wagon and fewer and fewer pulling it.
Too much government drives people and business to cheat.
Anyone who has spent any real time in a factory knows that cheating at inventory time is pretty much standard procedure for all manufacturers.
first paragraph says: Since mid-2010, precisely at the time millions of US citizens used up all of their 99 week of unemployment insurance, disability claims have risen by 2.2 million.
Fraud is right. There's a big difference between making disability claims and going on disability.
I did not read the rest of the article.. unless the Obama radicals (campus spoiled brats) instructed government employees to approve every application the person who typed in the headline is the fraud.
low back pain, fake seizures, carpal tunnel, fibromyalgia, drug addicts (heroin), anxiety disorders, all get you on the Social Security disability bandwagon...
what’s funny, where I work is that if Obama had a couple of bowel movements, those people would look like them.
Disability is the new welfare. Once these folks get on, they are on for life. There are very few cases of disability being taken away from someone once they are on it.
Allowing this to happen is a HUGH mistake. Talk about your “permanent underclass.” That’s exactly what is being created.
A solution to this problem is to raise the standards one must meet to be considered disabled. As a triage interviewer at a local food bank, I’ve spoken with folks who got on permanent disability just because they have a sore neck.
IMHO, the “disability lawyers” are largely to blame.
Easy to get on disability. Just walk in with a bandage on the third finger and you got it. America is F’ed.
It all goes back to “Free Trade” and open borders. Internationalism blows.
Those are the laid off government employees getting disability. They know how to game the system to continue sucking on their host. Half of their host is the private sector so far, but soon, it will be nearly all debt. Have fun. Enjoy the slide.
A brilliant strategy by Baraq and Axlegrease.
The Chicago mob is a pretty savvy bunch.
It’s not like the MSM is going to point out how they got to 7.9% unemployment by election day.
They’re spending $1.40 for every $1 in tax receipts.
Like a family riding a wave of false prosperity on credit cards and helocs.
If only given the choice between being a mooch or being forced to support a mooch, becoming a mooch is better for one’s “pride”...with the proper rationalization that is.
Self reliance has been replaced by Leftist K-12 indoctrinations--which gives even the most shiftless and dedicated to be worthless bum the “self esteem” of a hero.
Back around 1982 my company sold off one of its divisions and laid off about 500 employees at our Detroit plant. Within a year and a half, our workers comp. departmant received between 100 - 150 workers comp. claims......