A conservative attorney points out that more Americans have been put on disability than jobs were created during President Obama’s tenure.
Since June 2009, the economy has created 2.6 million jobs, while 3.1 million workers signed up for disability benefits. That includes the month of June 2012, when 85,000 workers joined the disability program and only 80,000 jobs were created…
“Number one — we are in the middle of the great Obama depression,” he notes. “This is not a downturn; this is not a recession. Number two — and this is not necessarily Obama’s fault, but the government for some time has made it very easy to go on disability.”..
via Record Number of ‘Disability’ Filings as Unemployment Runs Out.
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