{"id":35497,"date":"2013-05-08T14:31:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T18:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35497"},"modified":"2013-05-08T15:21:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T19:21:37","slug":"federal-fiscal-follies-the-disability-scam-an-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35497","title":{"rendered":"Federal Fiscal Follies – The Disability Scam (an Update)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thought I’d drop a quick update on another Federal program rife with fraud<\/a>.\u00a0 Yeah, yet another one of those Progressive “good ideas” that ended up paving the road to a famous but not-so-good destination.<\/p>\n

According to the Social Security Administration, nearly 11 million Americans<\/a> were receiving Social Security Disability payments in April. The precise total was 10,962,532 individuals.<\/p>\n

For comparison, Greece’s last census put the population of Greece at 10,815,197.<\/p>\n

You read that correctly.\u00a0 Today, we’ve got more people drawing Social Security Disability in the USA than Greece has people<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The number works out to almost 3 \u00bd% <\/strong>of the total US population\u00a0<\/em>on 30 April 2013.\u00a0 And as I’ve written before, investigation indicates that about 1\/4 of all Social Security Disability cases granted recently appear to have been granted improperly.<\/p>\n

April also marked the 195th consecutive month that the number of persons receiving Social Security Disability payments increased.\u00a0 That’s\u00a016 years and 3 months<\/span> of consecutive increase in the Social Security Disability lists.<\/p>\n

It’s beginning to look like Social Security Disability is at risk of becoming just another free handout program.\u00a0 Hell, for around 1\/4 of those recently approved, that’s exactly<\/span> what it appears to be.<\/p>\n

Wonderful. Just freaking wonderful.<\/p>\n

Oh that ain’t workin’<\/em>
\nThat’s the way you do it<\/em>
\nGet your money for nothin’ . . . .<\/em><\/p>\n

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