(CNSNews.com) – A record of 8,733,461 workers took federal disability insurance payments in June 2012, according to the Social Security Administration. That was up from 8,707,185 in May.
It also exceeds the entire population of New York City, which according to the Census Bureau’s latest estimate hit 8,244,910 in July 2011.
There has been a dramatic shrinkage in the United States over the past 20 years in the number of workers actually employed and earning paychecks per worker who is not employed and is taking federal disability insurance payments.
In June 1992, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 118,419,000 people employed in the United States, and, according to the Social Security Administration, there were 3,334,333 workers taking federal disability payments. That equaled about 1 person taking disability payments for each 35.5 people actually working.
When President Barack Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, there were 142,187,000 people employed and 7,442,377 workers taking federal disability payments. That equaled about 1 person taking disability payments for each 19.1 people actually working.
Read More at CNS News. By Terence P. Jeffrey.
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Well when 99 weeks of unemployment runs out, isn't disability the next best thing? Certainly you don't want to be employed.
Do you really believe it's so easy to get on disability?
Barack Obama, at a recent rural elementary school assembly in East Texas,
asked the audience for total quiet. Then, in the silence, he started to slowly
clap his hands once every few seconds, holding the audience in total silence..
Then Obama said into the microphone, “Children, uh, every time I, uh, clap
my hands together, a, uh, child in America dies from, uh, gun violence.”
Little Richard Earl, with a proud East Texas drawl, pierced the quiet and said,
” Well, dummy, stop clapping!”
The liberals are asking us to give Obama time.
We agree – and think 25 to life would be appropriate.
Judging by his wild spending so far, President Obama has apparently
decided that it is easier to trim the taxpayers than to trim federal spending.
This article makes it seem like it's so easy to get disability. It's not. You can be a paraplegic with heart disease and they will still deny you.
Seeks is entirely right. Totally and completely right! I have a neighbor who had open heart surgery, and it took him two years, and a lawyer to get on disability. My husband had the same problem. It is paperwork, piled upon paperwork, and phone calls upon more phone calls. Even after you get on disability, it is still more work, phone calls, and paperwork. And for all your efforts and work, and time, you get very little. Disability is not a free ride, and it is not easy, in any way, shape nor form. Personally, I would rather work at working than to work at this type of government red tape and bullshit. Which is why I do work. And what I do is not an easy job by any means. I clean houses and offices and a country club, I am a cleaning lady. And, I do it with my own disability, having had back surgery some twenty years ago. With what my husband brings in on his disability check, we exist, we do not live “high off the hog”, we manage to pay our bills, and that is all we manage to do. But I would rather do this than go through what one goes through to get the badly needed help from a government that would rather take from me than give me what I, over the years, have rightly earned. I’d probably have a heart attack or stroke from sheer frustration at all the crap involved. Nope, not easy at all to get disability.
Totally agree with you there Disgusted. It's not easy making it on like $1,000 or less a month. That's what they gave my mom for the few months before she died of cancer. It only took her 2 years to get on too and that's supposed to be instant acceptance. How nice it was to finally give her the ability to enjoy the last days of her life just a month or so before she died.
I have a friend that is still being denied disability. He worked hard 40 of his 52 years of life.
It seems you should be considered disabled if you broke your back and are semi paralyzed, have moderate stenosis of the Thoracic (yes thoracic. rare I know) He also broke his neck and has severe radiculopathy, He also has HCM (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy), chronic AFib and Aflutter and others, tachycardia (rhb 160 ), syncopal episodes. He can't walk, crawl, climb, sit longer than 15 minutes, lay down without help, reach, carry, pain so bad he is on Fentanyl patches and Percocets etc etc etc and he STILL isn't considered disabled.
They said he can do a "light duty" job. Do you know of any because we've been racking our brains trying to come up with just one. He'd love to work. It's killing him he can't. He was fired from his last job for "falling down", as they put it. He became a liability.
He can't drive a car from his syncope (heart makes you pass out), but they want him to use machinery. I guess that makes sense….
Yep, just so easy to walk in and get right on disability isn't it?
I wish people would learn the truth instead of believing the propaganda the government and LSM puts out.
I mean, if that's the case, obama is legal and eligible to be president, right?