[George from New England]

Why? Sleaze balls like Morgan and Morgan.

[biff]

Scampering like cockroaches finding a new “free stuff” avenue after their long term unemployment ran out.

[WayneS]

People are giving up?

[mountainlion]

POTUS caused PTSD

[yldstrk]

because the rats are handing it out like candy to buy votes

[Iron Munro]

Disability has been transformed into another wealth redistribution/vote buying scheme by Obama.

When you are sucking on the government teat are you going to vote for a candidate who promises to take it away?

[mongo141]

It's all about free sh*t, money and a sleazy self serving ignorant government

[kingu]

It is rising so fast due to the oppressive economic climate; that reduces job openings and business creation, and when the job market tightens this much for this long, people look to other means to survive. I broke out a recent disability report by age groups...

Age Group	Count	Average Payout	Sum
Under 50	2479260	$842.22		$2,088,081,530.78
Over 49		6461718	$1,206.07	$7,793,264,035.39
			
Under 60	6126676	$920.56		$5,639,954,478.53
Over 59		2815908	$1,277.58	$3,597,539,697.19

Under 58	5227917	$904.34 	$4,727,810,332.48
Over 57		3714667	$1,266.71	$4,705,422,345.20

Looking at it, it appears the largest group is the 50-64 crowd, very much most likely to have been squeezed out of the job market - either from having their business crushed by rules and taxes, or by being replaced with younger workers. While I'm sure there's a lot of luggage on that rack as well, disability is becoming the new 'pre-retirement.' I'm also pretty sure that if you hit SS age while on disability, you get full SS benefits rather than having to wait a few years.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Eventually the government will have to do what the military does. Require medical review of disabilities that are not inherently permanent (like missing limbs), at either six month or annual intervals.

Because doctors do not like to be put on the spot about whether to give disability or not to their patients, so often assign disability when there is none, the only proper response is to pay a select number of doctors to review all cases of disability at the state level.

There also has to be significant penalties for disability fraud. This is already common practice by insurance companies, who will hire private detectives if they suspect fraud. For example getting pictures of a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair dancing.

[Uncle Miltie]

Because living off of others is easier than work.

[pgyanke]

[CodeToad]

1. Every free-money recipient is a potential Democrat voter.

2. Every person on the welfare roll of “disability” is not on the unemployment roll; makes the unemployment number look better.

[nascarnation]

11m (current number) minus 5.2m (added under Obama) = 5.8
5.2 / 5.8 = 89% increase not 18%

or did I miss something?

[bassmaner]

Cloward-Piven.

[pgyanke]

[pgyanke]

[xzins]

Lawyers are part of it now. They advertise their ability to get you onto disability government assistance. You have to wonder how they get paid that makes it worth while for them. They have to be getting a cut of the disability check.

[GOPJ]

Disability's the ‘new welfare’. Welfare without pesky social workers and ‘time limits’. Also, because disability is tied to Social Security it's hard to control without hurting honest citizens who paid into Social Security their whole lives.

Half the people in an average Social Security office at any time are 28+ year old gang bangers. They usually outnumber the old.

[FreeAtlanta]

1). Food lines and Hoovervilles wouldn’t help the Marxist agenda, yet.

2). Cloward and Piven

[lurk]

Disability. Gravy Train Fraud.