by Frank Holmes, reporter
He’s a decorated military veteran and one of the most powerful men in the United States — but the federal government told Congressman Dan Crenshaw he wasn’t fit to do anything except collect welfare.
Crenshaw, a first term Republican from Texas, says he wants to reform welfare because it tells able-bodied people like himself they have nothing to offer anybody.
Crenshaw lost his right eye when he stepped on an IED in Afghanistan in 2012. His service won him two Bronze Star Medals, the Purple Heart, and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with valor… and he kept on serving in uniform until 2016.
But when he left the military for medical reasons, the feds told him he should sign up for a lifetime check from the government.
“I was eligible to get thousands of taxpayers’ money as I retired from the military,” he said.
Crenshaw told Congress that “the federal government” and “the military told me I should get on that program.”
He wasn’t ready to sit on the sidelines, so he ran for Congress. He made border security his top issue, and he won. And the Texas veteran knows there may be millions of people living miserable lives on disability, just like he would have been. He’s able to be a Congressman… and also eligible for welfare.
“Why would I reform Social Security Disability Insurance? Maybe because I was eligible for it,” he said during a recent congressional hearing.
SSDI is a federal benefit for people so injured that they can’t work—but Crenshaw is one of the hardest working men in Texas.
“I am not disabled!” he told his colleagues, making sure the Democrats could hear.
“I have a thing going on here,” he said as he pointed to his eye, “kind of a disability, but I am not disabled.”
SSDI pays up to $2,861 a month if people aren’t able to work. But Crenshaw told the feds no thanks.
“I should not get that money, but that program says I should. There’s something wrong there,” he said. “I’m perfectly capable of working.”
When the economy tanked, and Barack Obama’s free spending policies kept Americans struggling for eight years, millions of people poured onto disability—and not because they were disabled.
They just couldn’t find a job in Obama’s America.
Disability claims jumped 44% between 2003 and 2013, and half-a-million more people received SSDI under Obama each year of his first term.
Almost 3 million more people got hooked on SSDI during the Obama years.
So many people made their living from this one welfare program that it ran a $39 billion deficit in 2014. SSDI was growing so fast and shedding so much money that it was set to go totally bankrupt by 2035.
But Crenshaw knows a lot of those people heard the same thing that he did—give up, go get a handout—and they heard it from their commander in chief.
Barack Obama told people, especially blue collar workers in the heartland, that their jobs were “never coming back.”
Factories opening up in the Midwest? That would take “a magic wand,” Obama said.
A bad economy? That was just “the new normal.” Get used to it, Democrats said.
Conservatives said Obama was following the Cloward-Piven Strategy, a plan that two Sixties radicals cooked up to swamp the welfare system with so many new cases that it collapsed. Then America would become a socialist country.
But Donald Trump rolled into office, and the economy has exploded.
Millions have gotten off food stamps—because they have a job again.
Plants are opening in the Midwest. Jobs are coming back from overseas.
Things are so good that there are a record-high 6.6 million jobs right now that companies can’t find anyone to fill!
17 million more people have full time jobs today than under Obama, and the number is growing.
One of those men is Crenshaw, who got elected last November despite the Democrats’ dirtiest tricks to sideline him.
“Saturday Night Live” made fun of him—Pete Davidson said Crenshaw looked like “a hit man from a porno movie.” Crenshaw went on the show and responded so gracefully that “SNL” apologized to him in person, live on the air.
Now he’s in D.C., fighting to get America working again.
“I wish we could have an honest conversation” about welfare, Crenshaw said.
Crenshaw has gone from dropping bombs on terrorists to dropping truth-bombs on Washington Democrats—and America is winning this war.
Frank Holmes is a reporter for The Horn News. He is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”