Federal gvt spends a lot of money on disabled workers

[Trip]

http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/

The federal government spends more money each year on cash payments for disabled former workers than it spends on food stamps and welfare combined. Yet people relying on disability payments are often overlooked in discussions of the social safety net. People on federal disability do not work. Yet because they are not technically part of the labor force, they are not counted among the unemployed.

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

yeah, i heard about this on NPR on my way home from work today.

 

[hayesc0]

wtf my mother has been trying to get disability for years with no luck she has lupus and cant work

 

[88m3]

maybe we can revisit euthanasia

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

maybe we can revisit euthanasia

why would we need youth in asia to deal with this?
how is

gonna help us?

 

[Robbie3000]

why would we need youth in asia to deal with this?
how is

gonna help us?

Ali G?

 

[daze23]

I heard this yesterday on npr

shyts pretty crazy

 

[Serious]

sohh no one wants to drop the npr link

 

[88m3]

sohh no one wants to drop the npr link

all of us geezers listen to the radio

 

[RadaMillz]

Cus NPR is quality.....

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

I've never seen so many people admit to listeining to NPR at once...

all of yall

 

[daze23]

sohh no one wants to drop the npr link

it's in the OP

 

[alybaba]

Well, what's the alternative? Either the gov't pays, the families pay (vast majority of whom can't) or the disabled starve and die.

 

[Trip]

Well, what's the alternative? Either the gov't pays, the families pay (vast majority of whom can't) or the disabled starve and die.

the bigger problem is a lot of these folks arent actually disabled

 

[No_bammer_weed]

the bigger problem is a lot of these folks arent actually disabled

link?