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I believe what is happening here is that a lot of folks over the age of 50 that lost jobs during the crash back in 2008 and have been unable to find comparable work at comparable pay and benefits since then have thrown-in the towel and filed for this. When your cobra runs-out, your savings are gone, you have paid the taxes on withdrawing your 401k money, plus spent it, maxed-out your paltry state unemployment benefits, and you see foreclosure possibly looming, it might make sense, provided you are truly disabled. Sad, there is just no private sector job creation under the uncertainty and confidence-destroying of Obama.

Having lived under the hopelessness of only having change in my pocket for 3 years, it is easy to see why us unemployed have Post Tramatic Stress Disorder

7:28, that is part of the problem. But I work in a medical clinic, where every day we see several people in their 20s and 30s with minor ailments trying to get on disability. Back pain? Shortness of breath because they smoke? Borderline diabetes because they're 100 pounds overweight? They want a monthly check for the rest of their life. And the saddest aspect of this scam? It poisons the system for those who are truly disabled and need the help. This is a government program which needs to be cored out and restructured desperately.

I would also imagine that all the Lawyers who are guaranteeing results aren't helping any either.

I also work in a clinic and aggressively address scam artists who are both milking the system for money and dope. The state has a pharmacy network that will show you all the scripts your patients are getting from all their doctors now. We call the police and a drug task agent for each poser that comes in. As for the non disabled-disabled. Well, We call the disability board and let them know that the patient is doing "just fine" and needs to be re-evaluated. The problem with our goddamn country is that we have bread a bunch of lazy worthless assholes who honestly think voting democrat is gonna keep them from having to work.

8:27 I am going to sound horrible, but there are jobs out there. The problem is that they may not be the jobs that people want.

I was laid off from a good paying state government job last December. The irony was that the day in October when I was told that my job (as well as others) would be eliminated, I went back to my office and listened to my director and a few select employees talk to an interior designer, a contractor and order Steelcase furniture for their new offices.

I had every right to be pissed and moan and groan. I started looking for suitable employment day one. I interviewed and networked, and it took a couple of months, but I landed a job in the private sector that paid better, had better benefits, and the such. I didn't give up when I interviewed for one job five times and didn't get it. Or the one where the interviewer told me I was the preferred candidate, then the next day the job didn't come through.

In the interim, I took work that was well beneath my expertise, and did not pay near what I was used to, and had erratic hours doing freelance work in my field, so that I could support my family. Did not think about taking unemployment. It disgusts me.

So excuse me if I don't buy the woe is me, I've been looking for a job for three years garbage. I found a "job" the first day I looked and a suitable, comparable job in y field within 90 days.

If I'm not mistaken, the data compares the number of American citizens 'Going ON' federal SSI (Disability) with the number of new hires. NOT 'disability claims' as stated above the chart. It used to be quite a laborious gamut to run, meeting all the government requirements for designation as 'disabled'. Apparently the hurdle is lower now.

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