[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.)

[Terabitten]

Do you even know the difference between SSI and Social Security Disability?

[GatorGirl]

Fraud is rampant with SSD too. It’s the new AFDC. It’s tough to get cash nowadays and of course your SNAP card can only pay so much, but SSI or SSD is cash money, baby!