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The New Welfare Queen: Getting "Crazy" Checks

jim39 Wrote: Apr 29, 2012 5:23 PM

I know someone who was denied for disability because his personality disorders weren't severe enough. Frankly, the kid resembles the president. Same underlying mental issues. Perhaps the kid who was denied doesn't understand that the best way to get to the top is to lie constantly, rig nomination processes and use the dirtiest tactics available - and hide one's sordid past. If the kid learns the lesson the president is teaching, he'll be at the top in no time at all.

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The New Welfare Queen: Getting "Crazy" Checks

Last week, Investor’s Business Daily ran a piece on the 5.4 million Americans that have joined disability rolls under President Obama. It was a thoughtful piece, but it missed the point of the amount of abuse of this system that allows millions of young American men to drop out of the workforce and get paid to cool their heels.

It’s an epidemic nobody talks about because it could bleed into the sensitivity associated with legitimate recipients of social security disability insurance payments. The program provides money to people too young to get social security and unable to work.

The problem...

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