This revelation should speak volumes to the reality of what this an has wrought with his presidency. So heaven forbid, if he is re-elected, who is he going to blame for the last four years? I say he isn't concerned about that. All he wants to do is get past the point where the voters have no more say so and then he will reveal his true nature in a second term.
It is critical America, this man must not be allowed a second term in office. Americans had better report to the polls and send him packing or the damage he will do in another four years will be irreconcilable.
More Americans went on disability than found jobs over the last three
months, according to fresh figures crunched by the Senate Budget
Committee.
Underscoring the extent of the recent slowdown in the economy, the
startling numbers show that between April and June, a total of 246,000
people enrolled in the Social Security Disability Insurance program. In
the same period, just 225,000 found jobs.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., ranking Republican on the budget panel,
said the figures raise concern about the health of the economy as well
as the disability insurance program itself. He said that since 2008, a
total of 3.6 million Americans have gone on disability -- while 1.3
million lost jobs.
"The growing number of people on disability and other federal
benefits, combined with weak economic growth, raises serious concerns
about the sustainability of the American economy," he said in a
statement.
The stat speaks more to the weakening economy -- a reality Federal
Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke confirmed in testimony to Congress Tuesday
-- than any sudden growth in disability enrollment, which has remained
fairly steady.
A total of 247,000 people went on disability in the first three
months of President Obama's term -- at a time when millions were losing
jobs at the height of the recession. Fast forward to the first three
months of 2012, and 249,000 people went on disability.
While that number was roughly the same in the second quarter, the
number of new jobs plummeted -- from nearly 680,000 in the first quarter
to 225,000 in the second quarter.
Still, the disability rolls have continued to swell and threaten the program's fiscal future.
A new Congressional Budget Office underscored the troubled finances
of the growing Social Security Disability Insurance program. The report
showed $119 billion in benefits were paid last year to 8.3 million
disabled workers. That represents almost 18 percent of all Social
Security spending.
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