If there is one area in which it can be safely said that Barry seems to excel, it would be in the area of growing the number of people who now find themselves, in one way or another, firmly attached to the government teat. My rationale for making such a claim is the fact the total number of people in the United States now receiving federal disability benefits has once again managed to hit yet another new record. As of May, that total now stands at an unbelievable 10,978,040, which is up from the 10,962,532 million we had in the previous month. These numbers are according to newly released data from Barry's own Social Security Administration.
And, you know, as amazing as this may sound, those 10,978,040 disability beneficiaries here in the United States now actually exceeds the population of all but seven states. For liberals, that mean they outnumber the folks in 43 states. For example, there are more Americans collecting disability today than there are people living in Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey or Virginia. The record 10,978,040 total disability beneficiaries in May, included a record 8,877,921 disabled workers (up from 8,865,586 in April), a record 1,939,687 children of disabled workers (up from 1,936,236 in April), and 160,432 spouses of disabled workers.
And another rather amazing fact is that May was actually the 196th straight month where we saw the number of American workers collecting federal disability payments increase. The last time the number of Americans collecting disability actually decreased was back in January 1997. It was during that month that we saw the number of workers taking disability drop by what was a staggering 249 people—from 4,385,623 in December 1996 to 4,385,374 in January 1997. And, as the overall number of American workers collecting disability has increased, the ratio of full-time workers to disability-collecting workers has decreased.
In December 1968, 1,295,428 American workers collected disability and, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 65,630,000 worked full-time. Thus, there were about 51 full-time workers for each worker collecting disability. Now fast forward to May 2013, with its record 8,877,921 American workers collecting disability and 116,053,000 working full-time, and we now have only 13 Americans working full-time for each worker on disability. And while Barry cannot be held responsible for every one of those 196 months, it's his policies that can be said to be responsible for there now being 10 million fewer people in our workforce.
According to the latest Census Bureau population estimates, if disability were a state in the union it would rank eighth in population, coming in after Ohio but ahead of Georgia:
1. California 38,041,430
2. Texas 26,059,203
3. New York 19,570,261
4. Florida 19,317,568
5. Illinois 12,875,255
6. Pennsylvania 12,763,536
7. Ohio 11,544,225
8. Disability 10,978,040
9. Georgia 9,919,945
Maybe I'm showing my age here, but apparently being an American no longer means what it once did. Whereas in the old days folks did their best to avoid taking what was then considered to be a handout from the government, these days it's just the reverse. Of course, I suppose, it doesn't help matters much when you have the government aggressively searching out folks who can be easily enticed into becoming a government dependent. After all, the more people who become wards of the state, the more folks there are that can then be 'persuaded' into voting for Democrats. Because once these parasites become addicted to that steady government handout, they'll want it to be more, and Democrats will cheerfully promise to make it more.
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