[Ike Bana]

I know this is all bullshit politics. Republicans don't give a shit in Dick Cheney's hat for anything but trying to discredit the Obama administration these days.

That said...SSD and SSI were a bit of a specialty of mine back when I worked at the non-profit family service agency. I did a lot of advocating for clients who were legitimately disabled and being shafted by the people at the Department of Disability Determination. You pretty much had to have your head knocked off in a tsunami to get the determination in a reasonable amount of time, or at all for some. And the more disabled one is, particularly if the disability is mental health or intellectual impairment related (or both which makes the ordeal even worse), the more difficult the process is to negotiate...and I'm gonna say that it's designed purposefully so.

On the other hand...I've had a number of clients on SSD or SSI and for the life of me, I couldn't figure out how TF they got it, or how TF they maintain it. So the system needs to weed out the scammers way, way better than it does.

That said...I don't buy for a minute that Issa, or any other Congressional Republican is really interested in promoting anything outside of it's Obama Derangement Syndrome.