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The OP is from CNS, a trash rightwing websit on par with The World Weekly News reports about Batboy.
It's false.
It's false.
California has over 500 million with almost 200 million of it being mental, how odd, isn't that a liberal state? is it coincidence?
ICDI Total Number Of People With Disabilities Receiving SSDI By Diagnosic Group (State)
Actually the numbers for total SSDI benficiaries for 2011 is 748,000 which equals 3.1% of the population (working aged individuals 18-64) which is below the national average.
It would also based on the chart be 200,000 individuals individuals with a mental disorder which out of a little over 24 million working aged individuals is about .83% of the total working population. Less than a percent.
It has nothing to do with Liberal/Conservative states and everything to do with blue collar jobs vs white collar jobs.
If someone in W Virginia has worked in a coal mine since the age of 18 his body is broken down by 50. Social Security doesn't start until the age of (65?) so they are in trouble.
As more and more boomers retire they are getting put in that zone...if they worked office jobs they are fine...if they did backbreaking work for the majority of their lives their body may run out before SS retirement age hits.
The problem is a little more complicated than people just one day got lazy and jumped on social security.
All of my stats are from Annual Statistical Report on the Social Security Disability Insurance Program, 2011
The point is that they aren't really disabled.
Technically, I qualify for disability, and there is nothing wrong with me.
I like how liberals like to use percentages when they choose to live in hordes in places like California and New York. Fact is liberal states have more people taking advantage of the system which in turn is more money shelled out by sheer volume.
You keep trying to turn this into a liberal vs conservative thing instead of focusing on the reason why benefits are rising.
If you can see why percentages are used to compare 2 persons out of 100 to 1 person out of 10 I'm not sure what to say.
Volume = dollars= fraudulent spending
If you have a city of 1,000....100,000....and 1,000,000 which do you think will have more individuals with a disability? Is it fradulent that you would expect more persons with a disibility out of 1 million compared to 1,000?
It paints a clear picture when liberal run states are taking advantage of a broken system
How so? If 4 out of 100 individuals in Texas are disabled, 4 out of 100 individuals in Alaska, 4 out of 100 individuals in Oklahoma, and 4 out of 100 individuals in California how is California anything other than normal in this aspect?
You are stuck on percentages. 500 + million in California alone. V-o-l-u-m-e, VOLUME, VOLUME
Because you making comparisons between states with different populations! Therefore you use %'s to make a valid comparison. If you're trying to make a case that California has higher rates of fraud in disability claims because they have higher numbers of disability claims you're just wrong. It's just mathamatically incorrect to make that claim. You're basically saying that everyone in the state of Alaska was in disability due to the fact they have a much smaller population and would ultimately have a lower number of total people on disability than California that the fraud exists in California not Alaska. That would just be incorrect.
Not when you are dealing with 1/2 million people, it becomes staggering. But keep operating from the liberal playbook, you can't change your programming this late in the game
(CNSNews.com) - The number of American workers collecting federal disability payments climbed to yet another record of 8,853,614 in March, up from 8,840,427 in February, according to newly released data from the Social Security Administration.
That means there are more than 3 times as many Americans taking disability payments as there are people living in the city of Chicago, which according to the Census Bureau has a population of 2,707,120.
8,853,614: Americans on Disability Hits Another Record; Exceeds 3x Population of Chicago | CNS News
This is an unintended consequence of the Clinton/Gingrich welfare reform. States have to pay more welfare, but disability is a federal program. So states hire private companies to comb through the welfare rolls to see who they can get on disability instead of welfare, which brings their cost down.
Moving People From Welfare To Disability Rolls Is A Profitable, Full-Time Job : NPR
ha! I really hope you're trolling...if so kudos to you sir you had me.
That means there are more than 3 times as many Americans taking disability payments as there are people living in the city of Chicago, which according to the Census Bureau has a population of 2,707,120.
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And?
you don't find that excessive?
...If that many people qualify as disabled? No?
Do you have any evidence that shows large numbers of people on disability don't deserve to be on it?
Where would one find that?
Do you have some sort of study or the like that shows such evidence?
Otherwise, I can't really get bothered over the number of people filing for disability on the basis you find the number to be large.
sounds like a typical abuser
So you don't have any evidence that the people currently on disability aren't actually in need of it?
It's just the number of people on it that is so egregious to you?
I can't believe you can sit there and say all on disability are without fraud?
You are laughable
and a waste of time
and part of the problem this country faces