A record 5.4 million workers and their dependents have signed up to collect federal disability checks since President Obama took office, according to the latest official government data, as discouraged workers increasingly give up looking for jobs and take advantage of the federal program. This is straining already-stretched government finances while posing a long-term economic threat by creating an ever-growing pool of permanently dependent working-age Americans. Since the recession ended in June 2009, the number of new enrollees to Social Security's disability insurance program is twice the job growth figure. Read the original article at Investor's Business Daily Read more: http://times247.com/articles/disability-check-numbers-balloon-under-obama#ixzz1sqHvgVlo
If all of the people on food stamps, Social Security, and disability vote for Obama the Romney will suffer the worse loss in history. BTW, disability coverage is a human right and the law of the land. Article 25. (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
I amazed Wyrd. I never ran into anyone who lived in the U.N. I live in the U.S.A. You knwo, that country the socialists hate. And, I'm sorry but opting to not work is not the law of the land. Okay, so it's the law of the socialists but eventually deadbeats will have to go to work at legitimate jobs. And, check out permanent emotional disabilities. I met a gentleman who's PED was he really, really didn't want to work so he got SSI, housing supplement, food stamps, and Medicaid. You know, a dream citizen for President Obama and the other socialists. What happens Wyrd, when the people who actually can't work and the masses who refuse to work outnumber the productive citizens enough to raid the treausury?
