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Originally Posted by Mike
fpsoxfan, I think they have been tightening up on the welfare system, I may be wrong.
Many people like to throw welfare out as the big problem, I don't think it ias bad as the SSI, mental disability system. Many, many able bodied young Americans are getting set up for SSI for the rest of their lives. Able bodied, and no more mentally ill than the average burnout. I know mental illness, I've worked with the mentally ill all of my life. There certainly are a lot of people who are mentally disabled and can't really keep a job in society. But, what I'm seeing is a very large % of the newer SSI recipients not mentally ill in the traditional sense(before the drug companies had a new pill for every emotional imperfection), they are low functioning, undisciplined, unmotivated and,dare I say it, lazy. And here where I live, they're all white.
What ever happened to shame?
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Welfare/Social programs for the truly needy are clearly the honorable and righteous way to go.....manageing these programs such that the freeloaders are not afforded these benefits is apparently a near impossibility....imho the people that pay for these programs (the taxpayers) are generally not opposed to helping those in need... they are however frustrated and upset with having to incur the cost of supporting the otherwise "able-bodied/lazy/undeserving" freeloaders...
There are some who are cleary deserving of these many programs.....there are some who are only marginally deserving of these programs.....and there are some who are inappropriately milking the system....more effectively addressing the "milkers" would imho go a long ways towards reducing the frustrations of the people that pay for these programs....the problem of course is...Who is it that gets to decide if someone is clearly deserving, marginally deserving, or undeserving??????