Let's look at Social Security Disability Insurance. This is not for senior citizens. This is a safety net for people who are too disabled to work. Of course, it's something we should have. Unfortunately, the number of people enrolling in SSDI has amazingly outpaced all of those many jobs that Obama is so proud of creating over the past few months. Clearly, if more people are going on the dole than are going to work, we have big problems.
There is no way I think that all of these enrollees are truly too disabled to work. I've actually heard that one acceptable reason for going on to SSDI is if being out of work too long has caused too much "anxiety" to continue looking. SSDI is where you go when your 99 weeks run out. Historically, I believe only about 3% of the people that have gone onto SSDI have later come off. So, yes, I think the SSDI crowd is mostly a bunch of frauds. I also think that Obama couldn't be happier - anyone that goes onto SSDI comes off of the unemployment rolls, since they're officially no longer looking for work, and Obama gets the same decrease in the unemployment rate that he would if they actually got hired!
Another maneuver Obama made recently was to sign an executive order, i.e. forego Congressional approval, to suspend a regulation that was added as part of welfare reform during the Clinton administration that requires people collecting benefits to be actively looking for work or otherwise receiving some sort of professional training. See this article for more details. This is welfare that is separate from SSDI. I'm convinced that this was another tactic of Obama's to allow welfare recipients to stop looking for work so that they similarly come off of the unemployment rolls and give Obama a bump in the unemployment rate. I believe you have to stop looking for work for 2 months before that happens, so look for the unemployment rate to tick down late Sept or early Oct. It will only be real if it comes with correspondingly high "new jobs" numbers.
Of course, anyone who expresses their disgust with welfare abuse is branded a heartless racist.
The Democratic Party was the party for the Working Man a generation ago. Now it's the party for the man who doesn't work!!
The best part about SSDI is it pays cash, not EBT cards. You can easily use it to buy $18 gourmet pies. No worries about whether or not the pie maker accepts government assistance.
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