[[So you support Obamacare for those without healthcare and don’t make enough to pay for healthcare]]
What has that got to do with people unable to work and earn a living?
[[because they can’t get a decent job, those on food stamps because they don’t make enough, Medicare, Medicaid, Section 8 housing for those who can’t find a job or afford a home and the list goes on.]]
NONE of that has anything to do with SSDI-
[[I’m sure you supported raising the minimum wage as well.. hell lets just have the government give everyone $50k - $60k a year and then they can afford all this shit.]]
I’ll speak for myself thanks- and again- none of that has anything to do with SSDI
[[Have a nice day...]]
I will- but next time please stay focused on the issues actually being discussed- - thanks!
Point is simple... the Federal Governments job is not to provide handouts to people period. SS is bad enough but it’s my money that I paid in that I should be getting back but probably won’t because of all the other damn entitlements handed out to buy votes.
SSD started in 1956 21 years after SS. SSD requires some work in most cases but for as little as a 1.5 years of work you can collect forever.
SSI was created in 1974 39 years after SS and SSI has no work requirement i.e pay nothing in and you can still get it. It’s a HANDOUT funded by me paying SS taxes.
If you agree with the Federal Program of SSD and SSI which are handouts, then you agree with all the other entitlements being handed out or your a hypocrite i.e. if you benefit then it’s ok.
The Constitution’s articles, and the subsequent Amendments, specify the prerogatives of the Feds. They are listed in Article I, Sec. 8; Articles II-V; Amendments XIII-XVI, XIX-XX, XXIII-XXVI. These prerogatives belong to one of the following categories:
1) Defense, war prosecution, peace, foreign relations, foreign commerce, and interstate commerce;
2) The protection of citizens’ constitutional rights (e.g the right to vote) and ensuring that slavery remains illegal;
3) Establishing federal courts inferior to the SCOTUS;
4) Copyright protection;
5) Coining money;
6) Establishing post offices and post roads;
7) Establishing a national set of universal weights and measures;
8 ) Taxation needed to raise revenue to perform these essential functions.
I don’t see anywhere in the constitution where it says if you can’t work or earn a living then the Federal Government will supply you with money to live.
The Tenth Amendment states that all prerogatives not explicitly given to the Federal Government, nor prohibited of the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.
States can do what they want along with charities and family but it’s not the Federal Governments job.