[hosepipe]

You do know that most of the people on SSI ARE NOT old people do you NOT?....

Taking care of old people is one thing.. all the hangers on that SSI PAYS are another thing..

Besides that way back when FDR proposed SSI private capitalist ways of handling this was proposed.. AND REJECTED..
With you SSI deduction operating like an investment controlled by YOU..

The so-called government trust fund was JUST BEGGING to be stolen by the democrats.. as it was..
Government controlled SSI WAS NEVER A GOOD IDEA... from day one..

[DrC]

“You do know that most of the people on SSI ARE NOT old people do you NOT?”

More specifically, about 1 in 7 SSI recipients is elderly and more than one quarter of these are non-citizens. http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/supplement/2010/7e.html

[oh8eleven]

most of the people on SSI ARE NOT old people
Have you been in an SS office lately? I dropped by mine a few years ago before I was 62, and was met by a security guard.
WTF - why would they need a security guard for old people? Then I looked in the waiting room and I knew why - filled with minorities and foreigners - all young too.
I asked the guard WTF they were doing at an SS office and he said - they're all here for SSI.