A great, succinct response to what was wrong with Senator Coburn’s assumptions about people receiving disability benefits and candidate Romney’s assertions about the ‘dependant’ 47% can be found here.
The subject of the article, 62 year old Sandra Johnson, began working when she was 16 years old, and she held steady full-time work for most of her life. After developing arthritis in her knees and undergoing treatment for her second round of breast cancer last year, she dropped down to part-time work and began receiving Social Security Disability benefits. In her words:
“It’s not the government’s money. It’s my money…I worked and I earned it. I paid in enough years to get these benefits.”
On Romney, she says:
“As big as his head seems to be, his words are very small. He is trying to divide the people. I thought we were supposed to be equal.”
