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The New Welfare Queen: Getting "Crazy" Checks

sylvia J Wrote: Apr 29, 2012 3:18 PM

Charles, the GOV. knows about these freeloaders, believe it. They are called VOTES to the GOV. OBAMA took 500 BILLION DOLLARS our of SOCIAL SECURITY- DIS-ABLED at that and gave it to MEDICAID. as if we don't need it any more. And I might add MEDICAID Gets things that MADICARE does not cover and we are DISABLED The GOVERNMENT wants them to get what they want ju so they will be sure to vote DEMOCRAT. GOD BLESS AMERICA

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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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