I'm glad this thread woke up.
NPR did a great piece on disability recently:
http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/It confirms some of the stuff I noticed IRL, namely that there are a whole lot of people who use disability as an alternative form of unemployment.
I'm not going to blame Obama for the state of the economy...our economic decline started before him...but he hasn't fixed the economy either. We're still turning into a South American country and the middle-class is still on a long term decline.