Salon magazine recently did a study of the impact of Social Security Disability payouts. SSD Insurance is a little-known part of the Social Security system, along with survivor's benefits. These two parts explain why only simpletons say one could make just as much return by investing one's SS payments in the stock market, or government bonds or even the white slave trade, favored by some of the sneering plutocrat crowd in countries like Lower Slobbovia. But we digress.
The not-so-startling conclusion of the article is that we are spending more than $180 billion a year paying people "disability" for life, or until they decide to work or notify SS they are "cured." The main reason people get SS Disability: "mental" problems.
Now, most people know someone who knows someone on disability, but most of us are unaware of the colossal expense of the system--Ned will refrain from calling it a scam.
Still, $180 billion a year ain't hay, and according to the article the number of people applying for disability is--surprise!--growing each year.
Wonder how many of these folks are really disabled, how many of them are elderly immigrants whose sponsors, usually family members, promised to support them but reneged, and how many of them have conned some psychologist into certifying that they are mentally "disabled?"
The payments aren't colossal, not like the payouts to sneering plutocrats like Mark Hurd or Halfbright Fellow Carly Fiorina, only averaging about a grand a month. Still, how many of Ned's followers wouldn't take a grand a month if it fell into their hands?
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