"60 Minutes" piece on SSDI slammed by disability advocates...

[Hydra]

59. I probably didn't say it well

There's a tendency in DC thinking to think that if a number isn't there, the person attached to isn't there anymore. A prime example is how they cook the unemployment books- the U3 number is a bad representation of how many unemployed people there are, but since that number is used, they can pretend that all the other people that should be counted in that measure aren't really unemployed and trying to survive.

So while you might have 20 million people who are unemployed and would like to be working, if you say that it's only 7-8 million, where are those 12+million other people? Do they even exist?

And yes, I'm probably being harsh with the ovens comment, but really, this meme that everyone needs to be working full time to justify their existence only has 2 logical ends: People starve when they're left standing during the game of musical chairs, or we offer them euthanasia as a small mercy.

I'm for a different solution- reduce growth, reduce population growth, reduce consumption and allow people to leave the workforce if they want to. We're basically doing the same thing right now, just in a very cruel way.