What if there was a program that equipped disabled individuals to leave the welfare rolls and enter into gainful, tax-paying employment?
In fact, there is one and it's very popular. Many disabled people come to Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) wanting to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, get off the welfare rolls and become tax-paying citizens instead.
So successful is the program that the federal government offers to pay three-quarters of the cost. Yet die-hard tea-partiers in the Arizona Legislature have refused this "dirty Obama money" for several years. As a result, people who are genuinely motivated to get off of welfare have been sitting on waiting lists, still collecting government checks, for years.
