http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/01/03/fox-ignores-science-to-suggest-newly-disabled-a/197413
Fox News is convinced that the recent increase in federal disability benefits must be suspicious -- but they're ignoring the historic rise of disabling conditions, which results in 1 in 5 Americans with disabilities.During a January 3 Fox & Friends segment about "Who's Ruining the Economy," co-host Steve Doocy asked why more Americans were receiving Social Security disability benefits, wondering "are there simply more people who are becoming disabled, or are more people just simply becoming desperate?"Guest and Fox Business host Stuart Varney replied, "I think it's the latter. A lot of people are taking the disability option," suggesting that millions of Americans were faking their disabilities in order to receive benefits while unemployed.
i am disabled i take umbrage to right wing puppets suggesting those of us who are challenged are doing it to intentionally get money from gov't so as to not have to work.
when i was in business major appliance in home repair i would make as little as 50.00 one day and the next as much as 1100.00 even at 50. if that were all everyday is still more than monthly SSI plus the potential of their neighbor having problems with their ref.
they can stop that crap no one is happy with never enough. those who believe it what's in your wallet?
Varney is simply wrong. As medical advancements allow us to live longer lives, they are also making us more likely to live with disabilities. The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010, produced over five years by hundreds of researchers around the world, revealed that on average the world population lives longer and is more likely to survive lethal diseases than ever before. As The Washington Post reported, this means that "people are living with conditions that don't kill them but that affect their health":"These are things like mental disorders, substance abuse, musculoskeletal pain, vision loss, hearing loss . . . that cause a huge amount of disability but not a whole lot of death," said Murray, who heads the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.People are living longer lives, but the time they are gaining isn't entirely time with good health. For every year of life expectancy added since 1990, about 91 / 2 months is time in good health. The rest is time in a diminished state -- in pain, immobility, mental incapacity or medical support such as dialysis. For people who survive to age 50, the added time is "discounted" even further. For every added year they get, only seven months are healthy."Progress in reducing disability just hasn't kept pace with progress in reducing mortality," said Joshua A. Salomon of the Harvard School of Public Health, one of the project leaders.
the republican exageration is predicated on their misleading message that the people who rip off the gov't with disability claims are Black and Hispanic and it's simply not true they leave out info that points in the other direction but by not including those in their base they can demonize the rest which still includes their base but since they don't call them by group the base feels insulated until they start opening their mail, they armed them gave them kill passes they better watch their backs against their base.