[Harry Rex Vonner]

Unemployment extensions are over, as of december. If a person gets laid off after July 2012, they get no extension.

Good. However, the trend is for them, after their unemployment expires, to apply for disability. The thought of work, I suppose, causes them trama that can be translated into greenbacks.

I know lots of attorneys who specialize in various and sundry avenues to disability payments for their clients. I also am familiar with their "chosen" partners in crime, their associated medical doctors.

As an example, I know one former steelworker who told me he was in good physical condition when he went to a certain Johnson County lawyer concerning dsability. He told the attorney that he was fine but the attorney told him to wait until he saw "his doctor". The steelworker, now on 100% disability for well over a decade, said that, when he left the office of the attorney's doctor, he wondered how he could physically make it home. But, of course, he can still play 18 holes of golf three or four times a week.

It happened over and over every day. It continues to happen over and over every day. That's how modern day America works.

I believe that the takers have turned Kennedy's famous saying "bass ackwards".