by Burke Barclay | May 25, 2024 | Social Security Disability
The government’s own rules are blocking people from getting off of disability
According to the most recent survey of disability insurance beneficiaries, 40 percent want to return to work. However, in any given year, only .5 percent successfully re-enter the workforce. That’s largely because Social Security’s complicated rules stand in the way, and that’s not right.
by Burke Barclay | May 6, 2024 | Social Security Disability
Mick Mulvaney, a back-bench Tea Party fanatic until the president* put him in charge of the Office of Management and Budget, has been out there defending the proposed federal budget and, in doing so, opening the window wide on how we hardworking taxpayers—and our grandchildren yet unborn—are being played for suckers by the old, the sick, the dying, and the natural wilderness, all of whom are sponging off our money.