Goin' on the Dole

New federal figures show that during June more people went on disability than got new jobs. If this trend were to continue, eventually everyone would be disabled for one reason or another - nobody would have a job to pay the taxes to support the dole. See an Investor's Business Daily article for details.

Fortunately, trends like this cannot be permitted to continue. If they do, everything collapses in a heap, we become Greece or worse.

Eventually, the government will have to set the bar for disability higher, make it more difficult to qualify, perhaps even - gasp, shock - boot off disability some malingerers who shouldn't be there.

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As we've previously noted on COTTonLINE, this search for government support also occurred during the Great Depression. Literally thousands of former "doughboys," veterans of what we now call World War I, discovered that they were "disabled" as a result of their military service.

These were "disabilities" veterans had overlooked during the 1920s when they were younger and jobs were plentiful. The Veterans Administration was so overwhelmed they constituted special hearing panels to review the many cases.