Posted on 04/10/2009 9:06:42 AM PDT by mainestategop
As mentioned before, SSI and social security faces the end of its life due to uncontrolled spending and economic deprevations by the government. There is no doubt that coupled with massive debt and spending, the outsourcing of American jobs and the insourcing of undocumented immigrants who take away jobs here, we are looking at the bankruptcy and destruction of American programs including Social security and SSI.
This would no doubt be a humanitarian disaster for those dependant on the two for sustinance espcecially for those incapable of working. It is perhaps an even greater and more horrific disaster for those who have had their livelyhoods taken from them and forced on these programs where they must depend on an unreliable and fianancially drained services that don't work. So it is for those who depend on the government whether or not they have a choice.
We have done several articles on this blog showing how the government steals from the poor and disabled to make them qualify for these programs. For them it is even more devestating. The wealth they acumulated through hard work or windfall is gone. They are forced to rely on a poorly funded and unreliable program that soon will collapse. Their situation is even more tragic because they did not have to be in that situation.
We the American people are in somewhat the same predicament. We had forced on us by traitorous marxists a large bloated government that does not care about the needs and interests of ordinary citizens, only the royal liberal elite and its parasitic immoral and ignorant electorate. The government takes from us all that we work for, undermines our freedom and gives it all too criminals, people who don't want to work. We went from being a free nation and a prosperous nation to being a nation enslaved under 10+trillion debt and communist government regulations.
Soon we too will share some of the fate as those disinfranchised and without support. We basically had no choice.
SSI is the money given to disabled and poor who haven’t worked enough to collect full SS. It is a set amount...here in Ohio, about 600 a month, plus full Medicaid, and other “entitlements”, i.e., food stamps, housing, cash assistance, utility assistance...whereas regular SS is based on the number of years worked (I think 10 yrs is required) and comes with Medicare only.
The McCain/kennedy amnesty would have allowed illegals to collect SS after only 18 months.
Thanks for posting. The greatest fraud ever FORCED on “free people”...by...socialists. Great thread. Thanks to all posters.
Thanks for the ping, HiJinx.
"A White House Task Force [1994] is considering a proposal that would deny Supplemental Security Income benefits to elderly legal immigrants unless they become US citizens. Illegal immigrants are not [legally] eligible for SSI benefits. The SSI program is a major source of support for needy elderly legal immigrants, since many do not qualify for Social Security benefits because they did not work in the United States.
"The number of immigrants receiving SSI has increased from 128,000 in 1982 to 601,000 in 1993. About 150,000 new applications for SSI are received from legal aliens each year. Two-thirds of the immigrant SSI recipients are elderly, reflecting the tendency of some immigrants who have become US citizens to bring their parents into the country, and then have their parents apply for SSI. The number of parents who immigrate to join their children in the US has increased from 40,000 in 1985 to 65,000 in 1993. By not permitting immigrants to obtain SSI, AFDC and Food Stamp benefits until they become US citizens--meaning they must wait at least 5 years--the Task Force estimates savings of over $1.2 billion per year."
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By 1996 a huge percent of those on SSI were foreign elderly relatives of legal immigrants. In some cases the elderly parents returned to the home country, I've heard, after the checks started coming.
In 1996 Congress passed reforms which initially denied SSI to elderly immigrants upon arrival in the States. Modifications to the reform over the years have weakened the restrictions but as far as I know the changes were limited to allowing those elderly immigrants already receiving SSI [in August 1996] to continue to receive SSI.
You are exactly the person the system is designed to help: someone who stepped up to the plate as long as she was able, who paid into the system, and who relies on family where possible. It is the ne’re-do-wells and those who feel entitled to foist all their responsibilities to their own families to the government and then demand the government care for them in the lifestyle to which they wish to be entitled. You have my highest respect for what you are doing, and don’t worry about the kids. God has a way of blessing those who honor their parents.
Oh, how kind of you. I really didn’t mean to go on so much, but I related so closely to your post and I think that sometimes it’s ok to put personal things...I learn so much from FReepers! Thank you.
LOL, put down the bong! Big government will soon be "appropriating" private retirement accounts to fund SSI (AKA "welfare") and social security.
"Crazy checks".
SSI is suplemental security assistance. It doesn’t come from SS trust fund but the general treasury. (Both of which are empty now.) The amount of money recieved depends on which state you live in. The average amount is I think 675 a month while in Massachusettes its like 750 a month. California has the most generous system where you get 850 a month but they tend to deduct that from food stamps. In order to qualify you need less than 2000$ a month. people are often forced on SSI against their will by government adult protective services and abusive family member in order to provide an excuse to confiscate funds. In the end most of these people will have nothing.
crazy is hardly a word I would use. Its more than crazy, its corrupt and fraudulent.
Of course. It's the government.
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