I just HAD to post this here, only a true bureaucrat could talk about how they are 'attacking' the backlog of disability claims by reducing those that are over 1000 (yep that's 3 zeros) days old! Ya gotta read this, it would be a lot funnier if it wasn't so pathetic, but you'd swear this was written as a sarcastic piece, but no... they really think they are getting ahead of this problem [sigh], oh yeah, and they've reduced the 'wait time' for disabilty claims from an average of 88 days to 'just' 82, wowee, lets stop the presses for that... well anyway, read on:

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pressoffice/pr/disability-backlog-pr.htm