The Benefits Outweigh the Cost.

As a disabled person I am constantly searching for a good definition of disability. It must define it so that the average person can understand what it is. It should also show the fiscal soundness of helping the disabled become productive. The other day I believe that I partially found it. It didn't say anything about the monetary benefits but it did identified disability as anything which can disqualify, make useless, cripple or incapacitate an individual. If anything has this potential, shouldn't government place curbs on its seemingly unhindered growth? Shouldn't these citizens be made productive so that they can contribute to their countries economy?

Curbing disability will mean a new method of thinking for all government or a new Modus Operandi. Government will remove all artificial barriers that deny employment. This will necessitate a new status quo. Isn't a new status quo more preferable to one that may now keep people artificially unemployed? Isn't it more profitable to rehabilitate to productivity?

Here is the monetary benefit to my country. We have an estimated disabled population in excess of 49 million whose unemployment is estimated to be around 70%, or almost 12 times the national average. Reduce their unemployment to around 6% and 32,242,000 citizens would become tax payers. They in turn could possibly generate over three hundred sixty billion in new tax revenue. This is equal to the interest on our national debt. Besides the obvious benefit, these 32,242,000 now contribute to social programs instead of having to use them. By changing the status-quo my country could kill three birds with one stone. First, it adds to our economic base. Secondly, it ensures that our social programs will become stable for future generations. Thirdly, it places curbs on disabilities' now unregulated growth. All this could happen if leaders would realized that it is more profitable to create tax payers than to create tax users pointlessly.

If this could happen in my country think what could happen to the economies of nations throughout the world? Why worry about worldwide disability? Mainly because of its economic impact upon each nation. Presently, worldwide disability is estimated to be around half a billion and growing; no nation is immune. If 70% are dependent upon government aid then worldwide we have a non-productive population that most probably exceeds 350,000. Take this same 350,000, pay them a salary that would transform them into tax producers and collectively they could earn five trillion two hundred billion in one year. Some of this would filter back into each countries economy. This money could be used to create new jobs. New jobs mean that each

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