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To: cll

Something to think about:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903532804576564543481258206.html

(From the above link:)

The Social Security Administration’s inspector general is investigating a case of potentially widespread disability fraud in Puerto Rico, two people familiar with the matter said, part of the agency’s stepped-up efforts to tackle abuses in the financially struggling program.
[SSDI] United Press International

Inspector General Patrick O’Carroll testifying before Congress in July.

The inspector general, Patrick O’Carroll, told an audience at an Aug. 30 disability-examiners conference that the investigation was tied to a pharmaceutical plant that recently closed in Puerto Rico, with 300 employees losing their jobs.

Shortly after the layoff, 290 of the 300 former employees applied for Social Security disability benefits and they all used the same doctor...


30 posted on 01/30/2013 6:57:48 PM PST by GOPJ ( Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. Vladimir Nabokov)
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To: GOPJ
"Shortly after the layoff, 290 of the 300 former employees applied for Social Security disability benefits and they all used the same doctor..."

I think we can assume that would be roughly the ratio of Dem to Republican voters if they were granted statehood.

Puerto Rican sovereignty now!
33 posted on 01/30/2013 8:48:38 PM PST by CowboyJay (Lowest Common Denominator 2012 - because liberty and prosperity were overrated)
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