History Repeats

In today's hard times unemployed people decide they have disabilities for which they should get government help. In many cases these are "disabilities" they didn't claim in better times when they had jobs. See the Associated Press article in Yahoo News.

Think this is new? It isn't. During the 1930s Depression, hordes of unemployed veterans of World War I discovered they had military-connected disabilities and applied to the Veterans Administration for pensions. These were "disabilities" they had ignored during the 1920s boom times.

History repeats....