OMB chief brags he duped 45 into slashing SS disability benefits by calling it "welfare"

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21. Unbelievable look at the details

After welfare reform forced states to pay for more cases of long term welfare status, many states, mostly red states, started hiring consultants to move people from state welfare. There was a lot of documentation where poor rural counties were pushing large numbers of middle age (and likely Trump supporters) cases on to SS because there was no likely employment in their area..

http://www.npr.org/2013/03/27/175502085/moving-people-from-welfare-to-disability-rolls-is-a-profitable-full-time-job


Reminds me of how Weinberger fooled both Stockman and Reagan by agreeing to a lower percent but by making it a compound add on in the later years actually instituted huge increases in the defense budget.