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>> 10 of that million people on disability. 3 1/2 million, own a third, just signed up in the last 3 1/2 years. it is a change the way we look at and use the disability program. martha: real quick, stuart, if you can, these judges what is being done to follow up. social security says that is a problem these judges rubberstamping these benefits. the social security administration spokesperson said they share the concern about administrative judges. they need to speed up reforms to get further improvement. that is their statement in response to this report. martha: we'll see what comes of that. ...

Payments from the government to the individual way on top of what they paid in faxes. shannon: the allegation is that irs managers knew of this trouble back as far as 2002, ten years ago. if you see thousands of these numbers filings going to a single address, how would that not raise any red flags, and why do you think we haven't heard more about this? why isn't it on the front page of every newspaper in the united states? >> there is so much fraud going on in so m agencies you can't even keep up with them. we talked about the exactly same thing going on fraud in the disability program and th...

Journal." good morning to you. >> hi, built. bill: why is this lapping. >> it's such a discouraging development that we've got under 9 million people on disability. as you know we have 47 million people on food stamps, tens of millions on medicaid. unemployment insurance has also increased. we are becoming a find of welfare dependency state, one of the things obviously driving up this enormous deficit. bill: you need a few things in order to get disability. you just don't sign up and get the money. >> you have to prove that you've been injured or have some kind of disability that prevents from...

For some reason this current administration thought somehow he would be reasonable and peaceably step down. he hasn't, it's been 14 months and he's still killing his own citizens. bill: as we sit here today 14 months later there is no end to that. mike baker, thank you for your time. here is martha. martha: a stunning piece of information where the economy is concerned, more workers joined the federal disability ranks in june than got new jobs. that is a sorry situation. take a look at this graph. the economy created only 80,000 jobs last month, okay. but 85,000 people left the workforce entir...

Of the social security is the disability program which is totally out of control. 1 in 18 people now get a check for disability from the federal government. that's ridiculous. we now have good oversight that says 40% of that is not disability. and then the final thing is to actually utilize our resources in a responsible way. and the point would be, we send $300 billion a year out of this country for energy, we're going to spend the next 25 to 30 years still highly dependent on carbon-based fuels. we ought to be using our fuels rather than somebody else's, that 300 billion going back into our ...