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Sen. Tom Coburn on 60 Minutes: the Disabled are Dishonest

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Tuesday, October 22, 2013 2:17 AM

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Los Angeles Times, "60 Minutes'" shameful attack on the disabled
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-disabled-20131007,0,7
195237.story


Is it possible for a major news organization to produce a story
about the Social Security disability program without interviewing
a single disabled person or disability advocate?

That's the experiment "60 Minutes" conducted Sunday. The result
was predictably ghastly.

The news program's theme was that disability recipients are ripping
off the taxpayer. Anchor Steve Kroft called the program "a secret
welfare system... ravaged by waste and fraud." His chief source
was Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican with a documented
hostility to Social Security. ...

"60 Minutes" used to stand for rigorous, honest reporting.
What's happened to it?
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What did happen to it? Political agenda replaced truth?

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Tuesday, October 22, 2013 11:25 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


More of the LA Times article:

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The relationship between disability and unemployment is much more nuanced. As we explained in April, disabled people always have more difficulty finding jobs than others; when desk jobs disappear and all that's left are laborers' positions, the opportunities for the physically and mentally challenged shrink. A good economy allows more disabled persons to find gainful employment and stay off the rolls; in a bad economy that path isn't open.
Oh so true! My dd would have a hard time finding a job under ANY circumstances. So right now what she's doing is volunteering, and we're grateful even for that opportunity, because even volunteer positions are hard to find.

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The most pernicious lie told about the disability program is that it's easy to obtain benefits. "60 Minutes" repeated that lie. The truth is that disability standards are stringent, and they're applied stringently. Two-thirds of all applicants are initially denied, though 10% or so of all applicants win benefits on appeal. All in all, 41% of all applicants end up with checks. Sound easy to you?
Oh my word yes. You practically need a letter from god to make it through the system.

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The tragedy is that the disability program is underfunded, facing the exhaustion of its resources as soon as 2016. In the past, Congress has routinely remedied this funding crisis by transferring funds from Social Security's old-age program. But it has never acted to properly support the disability fund.
That's because of politicans who've been bought by big money who don't believe in society taking care of its members, but merely collecting people for the purposes of ripping them off.

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