Want a big cut in federal spending?

Well, if Jonah Goldberg's sources are correct, all we need to do is to require Social Security disability recipients to submit to a medical exam to see if they are, in fact, disabled.  More or less, FDR's dictum that welfare is a subtle narcotic destroying the human spirit is being lived out in the disability ranks, where apparently many doctors are rubber stamping disability applications, and the overall disability rate is nine times higher than in the 1960s and rising.

If the statistics from Great Britain are indicative, the overal number of recipients would go down by about two thirds.  In the United States, this would be about five million people currently receiving benefits, or most likely somewhere in the neighborhood of one hundred billion dollars. 

Write your Congressman.