In case you have a hard time believing how the national work ethic has deteriorated, read this.
It's a quotation I got today from one of my "informers".
" 8,753,935: Workers on Disability Set Another Record in July; Exceed Population of 39 States
The number of workers taking federal disability insurance payments hit yet another record in July, increasing to 8,753,935 during the month from the previous record of 8,733,461 set in June, according to newly released data from the Social Security Administration.
The 8,753,935 workers who took federal disability insurance payments in July exceeded the population of 39 of the 50 states. Only 11 states—California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina and New Jersey—had more people in them than the number of workers on the federal disability insurance rolls in July.
Virginia, the twelfth most-populous state, had 8,096,604 people in 2011, according to the latest Census Bureau estimate. That would make Virginia’s population about 657,331 less than the number of workers who took federal disability insurance payments in July.
I thank Scott Pluschau for sending me this story posted on the cnsnews.com Internet site on Monday...and the link is here. "
If this is true it means we have either turned into a nation of people with chronic weaknesses, or there is a whole lot of fraud being paid for by the taxpayers.
And if all such disability claimants were put into one (heretofore empty) state, that state
would have a population larger than all but 11 others. How much further can this go one before people wake up?
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