[the invisib1e hand]

wow...you know...it almost seems as if the world is going to get desperate for a really charismatic, miracle-working leader to fix all these problems.

[roaddog727]

The criminally insane are in charge.

[forgotten man]

Does this mean that I won’t get my “crazy” check?

[Anti-Bubba182]

Obama and the Democrats want a dependent population.

[Brilliant]

As often the case, greedy liberals too lazy to work swamp these programs and leave the poor disabled people to writhe in the street gutters.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

"Every dollar of (food stamps) benefits generates $1.84 in the economy," he said.

That is the biggest damn lie I ever heard.

The dollar has to be taken first from someone who has earned it. It probably costs the U.S. government another five dollars to distribute the one dollar in food stamps.

The economy suffers six-fold for every dollar of food stamps distributed because six dollars has to be confiscated from the working taxpayer to distribute the single dollar in food stamps.

[Nateman]

...As a result, the Congressional Budget Office expects the program to run out of money in six short years.

Its broke NOW. 43 cents out of every dollar spent is borrowed NOW.

[Figment]

Quit giving disabilty checks to druggies and drunks, for one. Every meth-head in my county receives a check. They do stimulate the economy though, the tattoo shops are raking it in off these deadbeats

[upchuck]

Social Security commissioner Michael Astrue is blunt about the cause of the recent application explosion, telling the Associated Press that "it's primarily economic desperation."

Yeah, because people are trying to treat SSI as the new Welfare. What a deal... your 99 weeks of unemployment running out? No prob, get on SSI and you get a check for life.

I could tell y'all SSI stories from the case files that would having you seeing red and spitting nails.

Suffice it to say, the fraud is just unbelievable. And there's virtually zero accountability.

But nobama's gotta build his underclass of government teat suckers that pay no taxes and walk around every day with their hand out. (Their other hand is busy dialing their taxpayer-supplied cell phone with 250 free talk minutes per month.)

[Savage Beast]

"Yet this growing sense of desperation is being met only by increased cluelessness from the White House."

This is dead wrong.

There has been no increased cluelessness from the White House.