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What's weird? Old people think they are entitled to benefits. Poor women think they are entitled to someone's paycheck. The disabled think they are entitled to quit working because they are fat. Parents think their kid is entitled to $600 of SSDI because they have ADHD. As if their kid would normally be working.
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What's weird? Old people think they are entitled to benefits. Poor women think they are entitled to someone's paycheck. The disabled think they are entitled to quit working because they are fat. Parents think their kid is entitled to $600 of SSDI because they have ADHD. As if their kid would normally be working.
Of course not, if you pay in to welfare, how dare you ask for a payout if you need it. How weird to expect that.
Disability now includes ADHD, "high-functioning" autism, stress, depression and headaches. Far too many able-bodied types are getting nice fat disability checks, essentially paid not to work. In addition they're handed food stamps, free housing, and much more.
Having read the article, I don't disagree with their numerical conclusions given the parameters they set out -- and since social security, SSI, medicare and medicaid together make up the majority of our social spending of course the bulk of it is going to elderly and legally disabled people. However with that said their decision to define "working" as any one person in the household being employed (for at least 1,000 hours) and to count tax credits as welfare is.......convenient. Further, I don't think they actually address the point that the structure of our welfare system generates nasty incentives for many low-income people where the marginal utility of working slightly more hours, or for a slightly higher wage, or saving cash for emergencies is either negligible or outright negative; how much we are or aren't spending on retired people is sort of besides the point in that regard.
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As if their kid would normally be working.