if you take away safety nets and not help the poor wont we be like mexico . The rich scared for there life because the poor wants to kidnap and kill them for there money . The system is good how it is now . Just increase taxes for the wealthy and cut defense spending and we will have this beautiful country how it was before. and when we elect our next white president all you can stop complaining how life is so bad in america.
The healthcare system is decreasing innovation and entrepreneurial spirits by locking poeple into dead end jobs for healthcare. This is what corporate america wants, it's a great way to keep the drones on lockdown. I agree a hundred percent that 99 weeks of unemployment definitely discourages people because they have that money coming in and just get lazy.
That will only come by force. As human nature goes, the Government simply can't control themselves. They will spend on a perpetual growth model until the model implodes under the weight of the massive amount of debt each and every American owns, thanks to their Government's spending.
Nope. Those paying the taxes aren't the same as those reaping the benefits (e.g., someone who hired an attorney and is now considered "disabled" and will collect benefits from age 25-to-grave.) The post was misleading. And the term "trust funds" as well as the way the whole system was set up originally (supposedly insurance) is also a farce.
Medicaid, Medicare, SSI, needless wars, on and on. The only time it all stops is when the disease has progressed to the point that we lose the patient.
When it comes to SSDI, the only way you can reap the benefit is if you paid FICA taxes. Your monthly benefit is also based on your lifetime FICA earnings. Save for the ones abusing the system, SSDI is a reasonable benefit. My problem are the large numbers of people double and triple dipping, ending up with a retirement income that's nearly the same as their what their working income was.