posted 12-04-2017 12:18 PM                  

Florida Senator Marco Rubio admits that the Republican tax cut plan to aid corporations and the wealthy will require cuts to Social Security and Medicare to pay for it.

Rubio told reporters this week that in order to address the federal deficit, which will grow by at least $1 trillion if the tax plan passes, Congress will need to cut entitlement programs such as Social Security. Advocates for the elderly and the poor have warned that entitlement programs would be on the chopping block, but this is the first time a prominent Republican has backed their claims.

posted 12-04-2017 04:50 PM                  

Over the years, the liberals have turned it into just another government "hand out" program similar to Welfare...

Don't believe me?....Just go into any Social Security Office and see how many overweight "baby mommas" and their illegitimate rug-rats are in there signing up for their "entitlements".

posted 12-04-2017 05:22 PM                  

How much time do you spend hanging around Social Security offices?

posted 12-04-2017 06:44 PM                  

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Originally posted by reechee:
BJ,

How much time do you spend hanging around Social Security offices?

What other benefits other than disability is one able to get?

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G-I knocked up and married Vietnamese girl brings her home,
she brings her whole family here , moves them to Texas.
Now the whole family qualifies for social security.
They been drawing checks since before I met him in 1989.
He told me the story while we were mounting fenders on
my old truck. He had no reason to exaggerate.

posted 12-04-2017 06:59 PM                  

The only times that I was in the Social Security office was several times in January, 2013 (when I reached 66 years old) and visited the SS office in Hamilton, Ohio to sign up for my benefits.....I had been working since age 15 and paying into Social Security for the last 51 YEARS at that time.

It was during those visits that I observed the people that I described above....I estimate that those people made up 50% OR MORE of all the people inside the Social Secuity office when I visited to sign up.....Believe me, they weren't there to sign up for OLD AGE BENEFITS.

One woman was even there to sign up for her deceased husband's Social Security for herself and 4 or 5 kids after he was killed while holding up a bank!!!

Oh, and BTW.....My late wife had worked and paid into Social Security for more than 30 years when she died of cancer at age 54.....She never drew ONE penny of SS benefits during her entire lifetime except for the $155 death benefit that Social Security sent to me after she died.

....And while I'm on my soapbox....I'm proud to say that in my (almost) 71 years of living that I have NEVER drawn a penny of unemployment or public assistance OF ANY KIND.

Anytime that my family or I needed or wanted anything, I got off my azz and went to work....And STILL do.

posted 12-04-2017 07:23 PM                  

BRAVO BJ!! That is the way Social Security is / was supposed to work, I think ... NOT the way that is being gamed and robbed and abused today by so many.

Heck, if some idiot is robbing banks - sorry, you lose SS benefits. If you are from another country and never paid into the system - sorry, NO benefits for you.

REECHEE ... seems you may be more out of touch with reality that BJ is ... I mean, I knew you were a "true" Californian (and wow, doesn't THAT take on new meaning in the last 50 years!) .... but BJ is quite a bit more centered in his beliefs and expectations that what you portray on here.

posted 12-05-2017 06:32 AM                  

I didn't see many of these younger individuals with such handicap disabilities that they couldn't get a job to stay off of Disability. I conclude that there is a mass amount of low-life, poverty dwellers just wanting to milk the system so they don't have to work for a paycheck. [many looked like they still could work for 'cash' and stay under the radar while getting a government check

At that point I hand the security officer my number and leave. Went home, got on the computer, and read all the information I was looking for...... What a crock-of-crap #SS system has become! I know many may need disability income help,,,but seeing so many healthy looking people applying for benefits seemed too excessive.

posted 12-05-2017 12:41 PM                  

He had dropped out of school after the 8th grade. He lived in a depilated tool shed and worked at menial odd jobs from time to time in order to get money for cigarettes and beer.

He told me that he spent most of his time at the SSI office trying to get what he called a "Crazy Check" since he had no physical disabilities to qualify him for Social Security Insurance benefits.

Here's what a "Crazy Check" is:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crazy%20check