Unwilling to work; 25% in Hale County
AL
Townhall - Mike Shedlock - 3/31/2013
The Disability Deal
Getting disability seems
easy enough in some states, and especially easy in Hale County Alabama. But is
disability better than minimum wage? The answer is yes. NPR author Chana
Joffe-Walt explains:
People who leave the workforce
and go on disability qualify for Medicare, the government health care program
that also covers the elderly. They also get disability payments from the
government of about $13,000 a year. This isn't great. But if your alternative
is a minimum wage job that will pay you at most $15,000 a year, and probably
does not include health insurance, disability may be a better option.
Going on disability means
you will not work, you will not get a raise, you will not get whatever meaning
people get from work. Going on disability means, assuming you rely only on
those disability payments, you will be poor for the rest of your life. That's
the deal. And it's a deal 14 million Americans have signed up for.
Disability has become a de
facto welfare program for people without a lot of education or job skills.
One easy way to eliminate
some of the fraud would be to put someone in charge of making a case for the
other side. No, we do not need new Federal programs. All we need do is "Un-end
Welfare as We Know It".
If states had any incentive
to stop disability fraud, we would not have so much of it. Make states
responsible for a large portion of disability claims just as they are for
welfare, and the number of people collecting disability will collapse.
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