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| re: Is America a Hypochondriac Nation? Hell yes. Disability is the new welfare: The number of workers taking federal disability insurance payments hit yet another record in July, increasing to 8,753,935 during the month from the previous record of 8,733,461 set in June, according to newly released data from the Social Security Administration. The 8,753,935 workers who took federal disability insurance payments in July exceeded the population of 39 of the 50 states. Only 11 states—California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina and New Jersey—had more people in them than the number of workers on the federal disability insurance rolls in July. Virginia, the twelfth most-populous state, had 8,096,604 people in 2011, according to the latest Census Bureau estimate. That would make Virginia’s population about 657,331 less than the number of workers who took federal disability insurance payments in July. Congress enacted legislation in 1956 to add federal disability insurance to the Social Security system. Over the decades, the number of Americans actually working has dramatically declined relative to the number claiming federal disability insurance payments. Reply • Back to Top |
Posted by BelleTigre11 on 7/24 at 2:35 pm to Hugo Stiglitz quote: Yes. Meds actually DO help a lot of kids in school pay attention. I know teachers appreciate them too because it keeps one or two children from distracting the rest of the class. But I do think some parents take advantage of these meds just to "tranquilize" their kids so they don't have to deal with them. I've seen plenty of kids walking around like zombies all glassy-eyed.  Reply • Back to Top |
| 10 years from now we're all going to be living in pill boxes not the ones with machine guns plastic houses with screw on caps. Reply • Back to Top • Refresh |
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