The money has to feed the war machine and Wall Street, sorry.
"Judges sue Social Security agency over number of cases" by Stephen Ohlemacher | Associated Press, April 20, 2013
WASHINGTON — Social Security’s disability program is overwhelmed by so many claims that judges sometimes award benefits they might otherwise deny just to keep up with the flow of cases, according to a lawsuit filed by the judges themselves....
The lawsuit raises serious questions about the integrity of the disability hearing process by the very people in charge of running it. It comes as the disability program faces serious financial problems.
The disability program’s trust fund will run out of money in 2016, according to projections by Social Security’s trustees.
At that point, the system will collect only enough money in payroll taxes to pay 79 percent of benefits. That would trigger an automatic 21 percent cut in benefits.
Congress could redirect money from Social Security’s much bigger retirement program to shore up the disability program, as it did in 1994.
After Obama signaled he wanted cuts in the CPI?
But that would worsen the finances of the retirement program, which is facing its own long-term financial problems.
They have to fund it 75 years out in the future like the Post office requirements?
The lawsuit was filed by the judges’ union and three judges on Thursday in federal court in Chicago. It names the agency and Acting Social Security Commissioner Carolyn Colvin as defendants....
The union announced the lawsuit at a press conference Friday in Washington. A Social Security spokesman declined to comment....
‘‘What’s really happening here is that the judges’ union doesn’t want accountability of its members and it’s been trying to sell this story to the media and to the Congress and to the agency for a very long time,’’ former commissioner Michael Astrue said. ‘‘And no one’s buying it because it’s not true, and no federal judge is going to buy this story, either.’’
We get that in darn near every ma$$ media article these days.
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The union represents 1,400 administrative law judges. The judges are hired by the agency but are supposed to act independently when they decide cases.
More than 30 federal agencies employ administrative law judges, mainly to settle disputes between the agencies and people who are affected by agency decisions.
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Also see: U.S. Government Stole Social Security Surplus
Yeah, the government STOLE that money from you, dear American taxpayers, and BROKE the SACRED and SOLEMN OATH of STEWARDSHIP of YOUR MONEY!
