Then here is another problem: If you do get a job, then the housing goes up, the food stamps goes down, and if you make more than around 350. You lose all medical benefits ie: meds and drs. visits on the state for the adult. The children are automatically signed up for sooner care here. Then childcare steps in and pays for childcare until you get a job. Then after getting said job, the benefits go down. Sooo, what incentive is there to work? Needs some fixing.
Kat

see i know how it works i was on them when i was just a little boy ,and yes its not right but my mom never worked becouse the goverment payed for everything al the way down to the clouths we had on ,and yet my mom did sum hoorable stuff to us kids where was the defax or the children ppl then ,they didn't care my mom abused us kids really bad and all i wished for was for someone to take me away from there ,the system needs work and your right each month they need to show where the money went and for what purpose it was for ,

I wish I had known you when you were a child. I would have taken you in. Or even just been there for you. I am so sorry that you feel (felt) this way. A child should be a happy child.
Kat

whitewolf big hugs to you ..you have come a long way ..

thank you cuteand scttr,that means a lot ,i have try so hard to repair the damage relationship with my mom but it didn,t do any god so now i have no family i have a few good friends but they live hundreds and thousands of miles away ,i came here to meet someone that will love me and that i or will let me love them just as much when i started this it was something i got off my bulletin and coped for it said to i really didn't know what would come of it or how to respond to other ppl for at first i blew up and i relized why and the demons that are in my closet from when i was a kid are coming out i spend more time crying and wondering why we spend our money on taxes and the goverment just don't care about the kids they take them from the wrong families and sometimes they just don't take i have call them like 10 times a month begging them to put me somewhere else but they come out and as soon as they left ,the 2by 4 or the wooden paddle or the thick leather army belt would come out and the cothes would com off and we would get soak down and then beat ,but that was the the best ones it wasn't so bad ,i can tell stories to everyone of you that would make someof you want to kill her but i figure its not worth it anymore i like to be left alone and far away from them the only person i miss really bad was my grandfather on my dad side he ws a good man and my hero he tried to save us but nobody listened he tried to kid nap us but she called police filally he died in 82 six months later we found out he died and i was crushed beyond repair .my life now is simple and i know what i want from it and yes i want to be a father a good one like my grandfather was and i want all the things for them i never had and the love and respect but the system doesn't work the way it should and it just makes me sad to think and to know their are children that are being treated just like i was if not worse and there is nothing i can really do to change it but pray.

what my life was like as a kids and the hell i went through ,i just found out i was adopted,how should i feel ,someone tell me plz.

I didn't read the whole thread, but there is something that bothers me far more than welfare recipiants getting high. It's the fact that the US considered pedophiles mentally ill, so they receive SSI checks every month. I watched a special about a pedophile who had a party at his house (purchased using SSI money), party-goers included his psychologist (who said he was cured) and his parole officer. The day before the party, he had kidnapped, raped and murdered a little girl and buried her in his new back yard...once again, a backyard that was paid for by the American people.

i think what is even more macabre is the way you bring these brutal and grotesque stories into the picture , as your point of view....

spider...what do you occupy your mind with??

or do you enjoy exploiting the shock factor....

Probably sleeps with a cattle prod too.

"i think what is even more macabre is the way you bring these brutal and grotesque stories into the picture , as your point of view.... "

I think they are very similar issues.

1) Drug addicts who are on SSI
2) Pedophiles who are on SSI.

I hope that we can all agree that both of those groups of people should not be on SSI. And while I agree that pedophilia isn't good dinner conversation, I also know that the problem won't go away by ignoring it. There are actually quite a few people who are deeply disturbed by the way our laws and judiciary often treat child predators with kid gloves, so I don't consider my post controversial or off topic.

"spider...what do you occupy your mind with??

or do you enjoy exploiting the shock factor.... "

Sometimes I watch the true crime shows on A&E, which is where I heard about the case I mentioned earlier. I've learned quite a few things to help keep my family safe from predators, just by watching that type of show.

what about the food card, spider? and housing money...and medicaid?

lulu24,

You are going to have to be more specific. Do you mean in general or for pedophiles and/or drug addicts?

sounds good to me!!!!!!

the issue that we have mainly covered in this thread pertain to drug abuse by those that use tax money. welfare money...food card, medicaid, housing assistance, WIC, that sort of thing. not so much SSI.

How about having
to take a urine
test to become
a citizen?

i think you should drug test to become us citizen alone with read and write the english language and when you do enter you have 1 yr to become us citizen or your ASS GET SHIP BACK WHERE YOU CAM FROM

Like Robin Williams speech on it!!!