Of course, there is that one little pesky problem.
Compute Social Security with the disability rules that were in place in 1990, and see how much smaller the problem becomes.
In the 1990s, the ‘bent one’ with the willing assistance of a nit-wit congress, “ended welfare.” Actually, all he did was take the cancer called welfare and infect numerous other programs with it. None took as significant hit as Social Security did with the ‘new’ disability rules (ie, take worthless cancers off welfare, call them ‘disabled’ and bury the cost in Social Security).
And I have an absolutely simple solution (which will also put proper definition to the word ‘entitlement’). Every social security benefit is reduced by 90%. You get a 3% increase for every year YOU PAID INTO SOCIAL SECURITY. When the people that ACTUALLY paid into Social Security are the people that actually receive Social Security, the problem will virtually disappear.
Good thinking.
Go into any Social Security office in a large city and more than half the people waiting to ‘sign up’ for Social Security are black men in the twenties and early thirties.
These men plan on collecting for a lifetime... full benefits for 40, 50, and 60 years... Often receiving more than people who have worked their whole life...
And the politicians solution? It’s to make those who work for a living work longer. Work until they drop...
Ask.
Ask how many men in Baltimore’s black community are collect ‘disability’... Same percentage as other races? Same as Korean grocery store owners? Same as whites? How come we can’t see the number?