I’m not necessarily a great fan of the TEA Party, as the TEA Party abandoned me in a similar fashion to the GOP.  Like a broken clock, however, they are occasionally correct and, with that, I submit they are correct here  —  to a degree — as displayed on their website.

Disability Enrollees Increased by 230 Percent

by Elizabeth Harrington

(Free Beacon) – The inability to speak English is now considered a determining factor to receive federal disability benefits.

Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) sent a letter obtained exclusively by the Free Beacon to Acting Commissioner of the Social Security Administration Carolyn Colvin on Thursday, raising concerns regarding revelations that individuals who cannot speak English are fast-tracked for disability approval.

“I write to express my concerns about the expanding number of individuals now qualified for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), and to raise a specific issue, the basis for many of these individuals’ disability classification, where the inability to speak English is a determinative factor,” Sessions said.

Meaning: Mexicans predominantly acquire a priority over actual American citizens born in this country.  And the noted disability is their alleged inability to speak English.

This kind of stragedy is indeed defeatist, for the individual, for liberties and for the nation.

Check this out:

The Social Security Act allows for the consideration of education when deciding if an individual is disabled. “The education factor is not limited to actual education as it relates to schooling, but includes a linguistic limitation on the ability to communicate in the English language,” Sessions said.

According to the Act, “Since the ability to speak, read and understand English is generally learned or increased at school, we may consider this an educational factor.”

Meaning: if you’re too uninterested or stupid to speak English — or too plottingly and cunningly crafty — federal rules shall fall by the wayside for you like pearls before parasites.

It gets better yet — your hard-earned American tax dollars at work:

Social Security Administrative Law Judge Drew A. Swank also testified that, “there is no burden of proof placed on the individual to demonstrate an inability to communicate in English” at hearings.

In addition, the Hearings Appeal and Litigation Law Manual (HALLEX) requires that “an interpreter be provided at the request of a claimant, even if the claimant is capable of speaking English.”

“This makes it difficult for an Administrative Law Judge to adequately determine English proficiency,” Sessions said. “Once an interpreter is provided, the claimant, perhaps under instructions from his lawyer, never speaks a word of English at the hearing.”

Imagine that.

The American Taxpayer fleeced by the federal government, and then fleeced again.

A final factor to consider:

“The population of the United States grew by 9.7 percent between 2000 and 2010, but the number of SSDI applications grew by 230 percent,” Sessions noted.

230%!  Why might that be?

Anything to do with the inability to find a job due to the onerous regulations and abysmal economic policies foisted upon Americans by Mr Obama?  Bueller?

With nothing left, an application to SSDI — and easy approvals in mind?

Hmm.  I wonder.  .  .

BZ