(CNSNews.com) – A record of 8,733,461 workers took federal disability insurance payments in June 2012, according to the Social Security Administration. That was up from 8,707,185 in May.
It also exceeds the entire population of New York City, which according to the Census Bureau’s latest estimate hit 8,244,910 in July 2011.
There has been a dramatic shrinkage in the United States over the past 20 years in the number of workers actually employed and earning paychecks per worker who is not employed and is taking federal disability insurance payments.
In June 1992, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 118,419,000 people employed in the United States, and, according to the Social Security Administration, there were 3,334,333 workers taking federal disability payments. That equaled about 1 person taking disability payments for each 35.5 people actually working.
When President Barack Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, there were 142,187,000 people employed and 7,442,377 workers taking federal disability payments. That equaled about 1 person taking disability payments for each 19.1 people actually working.
Read More at CNS News. By Terence P. Jeffrey.
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Barack obama is to blame for our bad economy no matter how much he denies it and blames Bush. It wasn’t till after he was inaugurated and caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs that our economy went down hill real bad. Now, that he’s a self-proclaimed dictator, it’s gonna get worse. Vote him out and vote all his evil allies out, also. See website: http://www.haasstrep68.com
And how many millions of those “disabled” are scamming the system?
By my estimation, probably at least 5 million! The freeloaders are ganging up up on us. When EVERYONE is feeding at the teats of the federal government, WHO will be paying them? Don’t say taxpayers because there won’t BE any. When no one is working, there also won’t be any millionaires. Only a few Trillionaires who will run the whole earth. (George Soros?) The rest of us will be slaves.