re: SSI *D&D*

Quoting Vodka Knockers:" No, it's definitely not enough. My friend is on SSI herself because she has MS and dwarfism (I think ... [snip!] ... check (He's trying to find work), they BARELY survive. I mean, there's months where she doesn't have even $20 to spare."

It sucks because when you work you get less money! and getting SSI you get health insurance and if you lose your SSI you no longer get insurance its a lose lose situation!

<blockquote><b>Quoting °NoName™°¯\_(ツ)_/¯:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting ♫ boobook ♫:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting ... [snip!] ... Like teacing people in Africa how to make pottery. Etc."</blockquote> Holy smurf. I really dont like you :-/"</blockquote>

You don't have to like me. We are trillions in debt. Food stamps aren't a huge mark in our debt.
http://www.usfederalbudget.us/federal_budget_detail_fy13

She asked a question and I answered. That was one example of where wasteful spending is. Food stamps are not the problem.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/us-spent-27-million-ineffective-pottery-classes-morocco.

Quoting Whitney*JAS*BMM*:" It sucks because when you work you get less money! and getting SSI you get health insurance and if you lose your SSI you no longer get insurance its a lose lose situation!"

Yep. Thankfully they were renting to own the place they live in now and just paid it off completely a few months ago so they have a wee bit more money at the end of the month now. It's not going to last long though, the trailer they live in is falling apart so when taxes come back, they're using the land as collateral and taking out a loan to get a new trailer to put down.

<blockquote><b>Quoting ♫ boobook ♫:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting °NoName™°¯\_(ツ)_/¯:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting ... [snip!] ... is. Food stamps are not the problem. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/us-spent-27-million-ineffective-pottery-classes-morocco."</blockquote>




I do have to agree though

<blockquote><b>Quoting TantricLemons:</b>" I think the govt also isn't very good as spending/saving. I was reading back to the re-building effort ... [snip!] ... had relationships with the Govt. When the going rate in the are for the jobs was WAY cheaper. We are crappy spenders/savers."</blockquote>




It's true. They jack the prices/pay way up because it's dangerous. BUT we shouldn't even have been over there in the first place.

If we (collective people in a community) maxed out a credit card, we would have nothing to spend. The government just keeps raising their spending limit with no way to pay it off. And the HUGE money wasters go untouched, pull out of foreign countries let their own government help them and we can get our own country back on track.

Quoting ♫ boobook ♫:" <blockquote><b>Quoting TantricLemons:</b>" I think the govt also isn't very good as ... [snip!] ... go untouched, pull out of foreign countries let their own government help them and we can get our own country back on track."

As a rule of thumb I don't go into target and offer them more for any item because I like them as a company >.< I don't understand why its ok for the govt to be doing it. The for-profit prison system is pretty expensive, we give contracts out that actually cause a massive increase in convictions that we pay to the special people who got the contracts.