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can someone explain why a homemaker, who has never worked secularly (outside of the home) in all their adult years can draw social security? i thought it was for those who paid into it previously. when i worked in gov't. housing, i also saw plenty of young (mostly minority) adults drawing off of social security with so-called disabilities (crying jags, emotional distress, back problems, etc.) who had never worked a day in their life and had gone straight from welfare to social security. please elucidate?

Don't get carried away with facts. Just remember RUSH & the followers here that keep pounding the retoric that we are becoming more conservative. Evidence this with what RUSH said today about New York state & that GW's boys think that the pubbies can win there. I have no doubt that they can. That GREAT conservative mayor of NY will be of help. Do you know why? Because they are about as conservative as Barney Frank. See where Bush is taking this country - right under your so-called conservative noses.

We've allowed S.S. to be used as welfare and no one has the backbone to stop it.

I was looking at the survivors section of my "Your Social Security Statement" and something hit me. If I died my minor child, if I had one, and my spouse would each receive $767.00 a month, if I divorced my spouse and had a minor child I'd pay $542.00 a month child support and nothing to my spouse. It seems the government thinks it cost more in S.S. to raise a child than child support.

My sister has four children, her husband died, from a drug overdose, she and the children received more in survivors benefits than I made working a 50 hr a week job. To keep from losing her goberment check, she refused to marry her boy friend, instead, she let him live with her and the kids for five years.

Another sister has a brother-in-law who is "disabled". He and his wife, who has children by another man, are separated but won't divorce because her children would lose "their" S.S. benefits.

I know several people drawing S.S. Disability only because they won't lose weight.

In all these cases the people paid little to nothing into the system, but received more than those who paid all their working lives. When I point that out to them they say "Everybody does it".

At the present time there are around 700,000 aliens who have never paid a cent into the system drawing SSI and other benefits such as Medicare etc. I am sure this also doe's wonders for the solvency of the system. There is no way that the society we have all come to be used to can survive the massive insults inflicted on it by our politicians. Runaway immigration, a huge trade imbalance and the Social security fiasco will soon put the nails in the coffin of a once great nation.