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GOD SAVE THE GRAVY TRAIN
If I knew tennis elbow could qualify you for a new car every three years, I might have considered moving across the pond.
Minnesota, it turns out, doesn’t have a monopoly on absurd welfare scams.
According to a new Wall Street Journal investigation, Britain’s government-backed disability programs have grown so expansive that people with wheat intolerance and dyslexia are qualifying for taxpayer-subsidized car leases, while one woman who claimed debilitating anxiety collected monthly checks and went ziplining in Cancún.
The total cost of these programs has ballooned to the point that Britain now spends roughly a third more on sickness and disability benefits than it does on national defense.
And politicians can’t figure out how to put the genie back in the bottle.