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The Right Is Furious at How Much Disability the Right Is Claiming - Philip Bump - The Atlantic Wire
How ironic. The right wing is irate over the spike in recent years of disability payments. But, as the link shows with pure, raw stats, the spike is largely due to the aging population. As the link shows, the spike around 2009-2010, if you subract age 65, you get 1945, around the baby boom's beginning.
So, we have a huge number of older people in our society. And it says 29%, yes, almost a full 1/3, of all disability payments by Social Security are for arthritis. Thats right folks. The right wing is irate over the spike in SS disability payments, and about 1/3 of all those paymetns are too older people claiming arthritis as a disability.
And if we also look at the stats, who do old people almost always vote for? Republicans.
So, combine the old GOP voter's consumption of massive dollars for disability payments, and add the GOP's countless billions they spent on 2 wars, and well, you have a sizeable chunk of our money problem.
So, RW'ers, you can fix the disability problem. Its easy. Stop consuming so much of it.
Top 10 states consuming disability (notice a red tint to that list?):
1) West Virgina, 9%
2) Arkansas, 8.2%
3) Alabama, 8.1
4) Kentucky, 8.1%
5) Mississippi, 7.7%
6) Maine, 7.4%
7) Tennessee, 6.5%
8) South Carolina, 6.3%
9) Missouri, 6.1%
10) Michigan, 6.0%
How ironic. The right wing is irate over the spike in recent years of disability payments. But, as the link shows with pure, raw stats, the spike is largely due to the aging population. As the link shows, the spike around 2009-2010, if you subract age 65, you get 1945, around the baby boom's beginning.
So, we have a huge number of older people in our society. And it says 29%, yes, almost a full 1/3, of all disability payments by Social Security are for arthritis. Thats right folks. The right wing is irate over the spike in SS disability payments, and about 1/3 of all those paymetns are too older people claiming arthritis as a disability.
And if we also look at the stats, who do old people almost always vote for? Republicans.
So, combine the old GOP voter's consumption of massive dollars for disability payments, and add the GOP's countless billions they spent on 2 wars, and well, you have a sizeable chunk of our money problem.
So, RW'ers, you can fix the disability problem. Its easy. Stop consuming so much of it.
Top 10 states consuming disability (notice a red tint to that list?):
1) West Virgina, 9%
2) Arkansas, 8.2%
3) Alabama, 8.1
4) Kentucky, 8.1%
5) Mississippi, 7.7%
6) Maine, 7.4%
7) Tennessee, 6.5%
8) South Carolina, 6.3%
9) Missouri, 6.1%
10) Michigan, 6.0%