10 million people on disability. Most largely much younger than 65. This doesn’t even account for the SSI that SSA manages and disburses for Obama and his government.
70 million paid from the social security taxes, yet only 100 million working and 2/3sa of those are part timers.
There is no way social security taxes pay for all those checks.
We are constantly scolded by politician for not buying into thier scare tactics about Social Security being broken.
But they keep opening the benefits up to more groups of people who have not paid into the program and have done nothing to earn benefits.
A generation or two ago disability was reserved for those truly mentally or physically disabled.
And it was a difficult process for most people to get approval.
Now disability is freely handed out to weak minded slobs with bad habits.
I know of quite a few young, able bodied males and females on disability for things like overweight, alcoholism, drug addiction, attention disorder, etc.
I think that to some degree Obama and the liberals have used the Social Security system as another vehicle for wealth redistribution.
I’ve read it’s over 12 million on disability.
My neighbor is. She gets medicare (or medicade - one of them).
She can’t work be she can cut the grass, trim weeds, trim shrubs/trees, wash and wax her boyfriend’s jeep and truck, and on, and on, and on.
Her dad can give (nice) houses away to his kids but not care for his own child.
Meh, let the tax payer handle that.
I’ve paid into this rotten system for 43 years (some years the max).
Sell d@mn Yellowstone Park if they have to..