[Bluestateredman]

This article is sickening. $700 a month payment for children who never learned to behave or pay attention. SSI was intended for parents of children with extreme conditions which severely impacted their families' lives, work, etc. Notice how the Globe isn't offering online comments for this article. I love how their editors pick and choose.

[Bigh4u2]

“Geneva Fielding, a single mother since age 16, has struggled to raise her three energetic boys in the housing projects of Roxbury.”

There is just so much wrong in just this first sentence.

Unbelievable.

[relictele]

One month a year (at least) SSI checks should be replaced by a plainly-worded brochure explaining where babies come from.

There are entire towns that revolve around SSI. The first of the month is like Christmas at the post office. In an incredible numerical coincidence, all these single mothers have children with ADHD or whatever else a doctor will sign off on simply to get her out of his office.

[oh8eleven]

Stop in at any local SS office and look in the waiting room.
I guarantee a shock ... no old people, but plenty of the "takers of society."

[Track9]

Isn't Hillary a BIG supporter of drugging our kids..? I'm sure someone remembers what she's said.

All your kids belong to us.

[shoff]

In New York they welfare queens even have a name for it. It is called crazy money. I worked on some new schools a few years back and almost half the school was “special ED” to take care of the kids getting crazy money. The parents told the kids to act up so they could get their raise from the dole. Back then there was no requirement you do anything, I guess now you have to buy drugs.

[central_va]

Articles such as this one written by a hand wringing liberal makes me feel sick.

[xuberalles]

[headstamp 2]

The sad thing is a whole generation now being raised and developing on chemical dependency through puberty and on into adulthood.

The scenes from the movie “THX-1138” come to mind.

[Erasmus]

Nothing has come easily, least of all money.

Except, of course, for Ms Geneva.

[donna]

The Republic Revolution of 1994 rolled back some of this but then it all was put back in place once again.