{"id":88628,"date":"2013-04-10T04:47:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T10:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=88628"},"modified":"2013-04-10T04:47:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T10:47:09","slug":"disability-explosion-dragging-down-economic-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=88628","title":{"rendered":"Disability Explosion Dragging Down Economic Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2013\/04\/09\/Disability-Explosion-Dragging-Down-Economic-Growth\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt kind of reminds me of welfare,\u201d said disabled former truck driver James Ottesen. Ottesen told the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> he would \u201clike to get re-educated to do something\u201d because \u201cmy body is broke but my mind is not.\u201d Still, says Ottesen, he\u2019s reluctant to leave the disability program because it is like \u201ca blanket covering you, and to walk out from it&#8230; at my age, it\u2019s a little intimidating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Disability enrollments have exploded under President Barack Obama. Since 2009, 5.9 million people have been added to the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program, a 23% jump over the last five years. During that same period, just 2.5 million new jobs were created.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. \u201cIt kind of reminds me of welfare,\u201d said disabled former truck driver James Ottesen. Ottesen told the Wall Street Journal he would \u201clike to get re-educated to do something\u201d because \u201cmy body is broke but my mind is not.\u201d Still, says Ottesen, he\u2019s reluctant to leave the disability program because it is like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88630,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88628\/revisions\/88630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}