Republicans Push to Privatize Disability Insurance Despite 99.9% Payment Accuracy

[Jefferson23]

After the GAO finds $11 billion in disability payment fraud, some members of Congress push for privatization to solve a problem which accounts for only one fifth of one percent of cases, says CEPR's Nicole Woo. - November 9, 2015

Bio

Nicole Woo is the Director of Domestic Policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. She covers a broad range of U.S. economic policy areas including labor markets, financial reform, federal budgets, and social insurance.

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=15067

[ruffburr]

1. How Republican of them

More of that compassionate conservatism , Undermining the most unfortunate among us, Wonder if they plan on distributing cyanide capsules so the disabled will no longer be an issue?

[Jefferson23]

2. They are what they are...protect the wealthy. We need to work for the next election cycle and

prepare to have a groundswell takeover...it's a must.

[Enthusiast]

3. Kicked and recommended!

Republicans believe their own propaganda. And they watch Fox "News". So basically they don't know shit.

[Jefferson23]

4. They're determined that's for sure..cons believe this bullshit, you're right. n/t

[n2doc]

5. Hey! Another profit opportunity here!

Just pay the appropriate CONgresspeople up front and voila! a guaranteed profit stream!

[turbinetree]

6. Where or where.......................were ..........

these jerks, when a fighter being built that was suppose to cost the American taxpayer how much now .....................trillions and billions, yes trillions and billions, can't even take on a fighter that was built 25 years ago

and then the republicans in charge of the budget use the slight of hand methodology of :

INCREASES DUE TO GOVERNMENT CHANGES

to get more money, when they, Lockheed said that there would be a fix costs at the time of development, that wasn't even completed, they just wanted the contract, and now these republican hypocrites want to do what......................

And then they think that a Social Security disability payment needs to be privatized-------------go climb a tree

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/29/us-lockheed-fighter-idUSBRE82S03L20120329#BY8trMqjp4tGKgmu.97

[wolfie001]

7. If the information is fed to repukes....

....they regurgitate/repackage it and spew it back out to reflect their lies and misinformation. They've been doing this since FDR: same old bullshit from the corporatists....

[Jefferson23]

8. Indeed, it's what cons do..the conjob. n/t