NEWSMAX: The number of Americans receiving Social Security disability payments has increased 20 percent since President Barack Obama took office and the influx of new recipients has pushed the program close to insolvency…
“At the time this program began we were much more of a blue collar, manual labor society, so there was some real need for it. Today, we are a lot more white collar, we have better medicine and devices to assist the disabled, but those receiving benefits have nonetheless exploded,” Tad DeHaven, a budget analyst at the Cato Institute, told Newsmax.
Some 4.7 percent of the working-age population is collecting disability payments, an increase from 2.3 percent in 1980. “In other words, disability insurance caseloads increased about twice as quickly as the working-age population,” an analysis by the San Francisco Federal Reserve pointed out… (more)
One quick way to turn that trend around is to begin drug testing for disability recipients.