Counting retirees? Or students? Or the disabled? Or parents taking care of children? Sorry, but no.Hat tip to RealClearPolicy for the link. I agree Trump took too big a bite at the apple. He can't reasonably include the retired, stay-at-home moms and full time students. About the disabled, as Joan Rivers used to say, we need to talk.
As regular COTTonLINE readers know, we've been convinced for several years that the ballooning roll of "disabled" Americans includes millions whose actual-as-opposed-to-claimed disability consists of an inability to find a reasonable job. This phenomenon recurs whenever there is a serious economic downturn.
Indeed it happened with World War I vets during the great Depression of the 1930s. Huge numbers belatedly discovered "war-related disabilities" for which the Veterans Administration should recompense them; "disabilities" which were not manifest during the boom times of the 1920s. The VA hired temp hearing officers to adjudicate the overwhelming stream of applications.
