Rich: The Disability Explosion

“After years of ignoring increasingly dire warnings, America is now facing a debilitating disability crisis – one draining tax dollars (and workers) from our economy.”

You might want to look into the bloated defense budget too…

Too bad whenever we try to cut welfare, it isn’t trying to cut people who don’t need it, it is instead broad sweeping cuts to spending as a whole that just lowers the amount everyone, including those who desperately need it, receives.

Of course, there are types who don’t believe in making government efficient, rather they want government entirely out of the system, and those who have no other recourse be damned. They try to sound “concerned” that the programs won’t last up to a certain date, but then they support stopping attempts at correcting those problems, or worse, support sabotage of government programs that do work fairly effectively, like the post office. After all, a broken system is easy to attack, even if you have to break it yourself.

Like most government agencies there is no enforcement. People worried about terrorist. Who is enforcing Washington.

Howie’s kicking cripples now too, not just poor black kids?

The last few years increase has been, in part, due to the clearing of the huge backlog from the mid 2000’s. When I began as a Social Security paralegal, the average wait time between filing for disability and having a disability hearing in front of a judge was almost 40 months. The Administration itself has seen a huge attrition of workers who are not being replaced. Front line workers are working unpaid overtime on the weekends to accomplish their workloads.

“Many of these were legitimate ailments afflicting older retirees…”

Shows you how little I know about this topic. I thought disability meant you couldn’t work. But we are making disability payments to retirees?

There are numerous folks on SS Disability in my town that are more able to work than a lot of folks I know!