Social Security is in "trouble" because wealthy people aren't required by the government to actually pay their share into the national program, and also because Congress has been "borrowing" billions of dollars that working people have paid into the program so that they might not have to starve or die of common illnesses once they're chewed up and spit out by the capitalist system. But there's another part of Social Security that's running out of money even faster than the old age pensions, because a record number of discarded workers are now claiming disability payments and Supplemental Security Income -- 3.3 million unwanted laborers will file for the last-ditch payments this year alone, and nearly 14 million currently receive the monthly stipends and early Medicare coverage. The money isn't much, and is based on either your actual paycheck contributions or limited to an average $500 a month for SSI, but it's "better" than the American alternative, which is
I have witnessed someone in my neighborhood towing two shopping carts behind a bicycle, overloaded with cans. A bike?! Bungee cords?! THIS MAN IS OBVIOUSLY NOT POOR.
I&#039;ve heard some of these lucky duckies also even have ELECTRICAL OUTLETS to plug such fancies into! Some of the fucking bastards even have the shocking gall to shit in <i>their own toilets</i>, and not behind liquor store dumpsters!
Well, obviously these people just don&#039;t want to work because everybody knows that living on various forms of public assistance is the lap of luxury. They&#039;ll all be quadrupling the size of their pathetic 3000 sq ft two bedroom ocean front homes once they get on the dole.
Regrettably, your snark was outsourced as part of the new austerity measures.
Many of them seem differently abled.
Is cryonic preservation considered a disability?
I thought that was &quot;Peg&quot;.
But that would be admitting defeat!
Got plenty of clowns.
So, what ya&#039;ll are saying is &quot;not cross the street, but down the stream&quot;?
I have witnessed someone in my neighborhood towing two shopping carts behind a bicycle, overloaded with cans. A bike?! Bungee cords?! THIS MAN IS OBVIOUSLY NOT POOR.
So Ted Williams had the right idea after all?
Only if you sold it to ConAgra.
Agreed ... why pretend? If you get away with it, you&#039;ll have the money. It&#039;s win-win.
Anybody know who makes boostraps? I think their stock is about to rise dramatically.
I&#039;ve heard some of these lucky duckies also even have ELECTRICAL OUTLETS to plug such fancies into! Some of the fucking bastards even have the shocking gall to shit in <i>their own toilets</i>, and not behind liquor store dumpsters!
Poor?! HA!!
Seriously...how much more fucked up could this country become?
<i>&quot;People are people, my friends&quot;</i>
OH WAIT. That&#039;s not what he said is it.
Well, obviously these people just don&#039;t want to work because everybody knows that living on various forms of public assistance is the lap of luxury. They&#039;ll all be quadrupling the size of their pathetic 3000 sq ft two bedroom ocean front homes once they get on the dole.