QBC wrote:
The TAL report was very well done - it highlighted the problem of children on SSDI - if they get better the family loses a major source of income. Although TAL, and 60 minutes, tend to focus on the sleazy lawyers getting rich rather than the freeloaders.
I am surprised that no one has connected the dots on a number of these issues - record low participation in the workforce keeping unemployment percentages down, record high numbers of SSDI participants,
one party looking to reform the entitlements. With 9M people of voting age on SSDI and the last presidential election being decided by ~5M votes, how many votes is a candidate that threatens these benefits going to get?
Which party is that? What SS and Medicare reforms have they suggested, because I am not aware of any? I'm waiting for the Republican's to put Medicare Part D on the table and propose we get rid of it. Instead they want to beat the drum about The Affordable Care Act, when they know they have no chance. If the Republican admitted Part D was a mistake, do you think the Democrats are going to disagree? I can hear Harry Reid now, coming to the defense of the policies of GW Bush.
Likewise, aside from Coburn (who I won't tarnish by calling a Republican), where are all these 'pubs looking to reform SS disability? C'mon, the supposedly "liberal media" (e.g. anyone who is not Fox) does a major story on abuse of SS disability and the 'pubs still have no balls? 60 minutes threw out a ton of political cover here, you can blame all abuses on lawyers, the fraud is so blatant, who would oppose doing something to address it (unless you were faking it when you claimed you were looking to reform the entitlements)?
There are a lot more outraged independents than people on the gravy train of undeserved benefits.