Jan 2, 2009

Solving Social Security's Problems The Potemkin Way -- One Case At A Time

In November I posted about how "Problem Solver" at WSPA had helped a woman in the Greenville-Spartanburg, SC area get her Social Security disability benefits. They have done it again! It is just amazing the results this television station can get! Let me drop the scarcasm. I am glad this claimant got the benefits, but it is obvious that Social Security is rushing to get benefits to any Social Security disability claimant featured in a media report. Unfortunately, it is impossible for hundreds of thousands of people to get media attention -- even for fifteen minutes. Taking people out of turn for public relations purposes just makes those who are not featured in the news media wait longer. This is wrong and everyone at Social Security involved in this knows that it is wrong.

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