He just said he had four mouths to feed. Maybe he has three fish.
And the Hypocrite of the Month award, ladies and gentlemen, goes to Chessic Sense.
NM.
My right hand automatically reached for the LIKE button
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That’s how he writes. He also skimps on the capital letters, FWIW.
Hadn’t seen that post! Dude, this is what unemployment, food stamps, etc. are for.
Back in my retail pharmacy days, I worked with several people who treated the Medicaid patients poorly, no matter their circumstances (which were none of our business anyway). Spouse has Alzheimer’s? So what. Special-needs adoption? Who cares. One of them actually did not have health insurance, even though it cost $10 a week for full coverage for a single person, because he didn’t think he needed it. Someone like that would be more likely to need it eventually than everyone reading this put together.
We also brought down a president. Get back to us when you’ve don4e the same. (Now would be a good time to start.)
You can’t be a conservative and then whine about Boomers. You’re literally part of what’s propping them up. And it means that “ok boomer” may apply equally to you–as it’s a mindset, not an age bracket.
Second, not everyone on SSI is a boomer, even going by age. It’s also for people who become disabled. It could be you on SSI before you grow up.
Third, if you have any sense in your head, you treat others the way you want to be treated. You don’t insult people with money issues who get some needed extra cash while you yourself are struggling.
Yes, the current situation is hard on everyone. I get it that you’re stressed because of your situation. I am, too. But taking it out on others who haven’t done anything wrong is not the way to deal with it. Starting yet another generational feud isn’t how you deal with it.
It’s not like you would have gotten more money if SSI people didn’t get theirs. Blame your fellow conservatives for the amount that they bargained it down to.
Last year I had a fucking job to make up the difference. So I was paying into SS while I was collecting it to make sure you have it when you need it.
I had no idea Chessic is in such dire straights. If the poor person lost his/her job and is unable to get unemployment (because of being fired for cause, or because of quitting), its no wonder he/she is flailing around in rage and fear. Other people are getting things that Chessic thinks should go to Chessic.
Chessic, I won’t send you money through Paypal, but if you start a Gofundme plea I will donate there. PM me, I won’t make you flail around. I understand fear and greed.
I’ll tell you how I was surviving before. Barely, with the help of my husband’s income. Now he’s unemployed with no income or benefits. Occasionally I could sell some of my art work, but the market has now dried up. So my meager SS check has to cover both of us.
Your ignorance is appalling.
Since they are doing most of the dying here, it only seems fair.
Can you cite this anywhere? I’m not sure if it’s a stimulus or a relief payment. We don’t need a relief payment (yet); we’re all working from home, although we had a week of forced vacation, too.
We’re spending a lot less now, primarily in fuel, because we’re not travelling, and Amazon purchases, because they’re not delivering.
I think this is relief, because a lot of folks don’t have an employer as benevolent as I do, and they need money to survice.
If this is stimulus, there’s no place to spend money. Everything is closed, and Amazon takes a month to deliver a $10 hard drive case.
The official title of the relevant section in the CARES Act is “2020 RECOVERY REBATES FOR INDIVIDUALS”. As mentioned earlier, it was structured legally as a “rebate” so it can (a) be advanced *now *with whatever information is already on record and (b) be marked as a credit in the next year tax filing so it will not count against future tax obligations.
But the CARES Act does not say in its glossary “this is stimulus, and this is relief”. The special unemployment benefit, the payroll protection program, the employee retention tax credit, the favorable business loans, the provisions for extra days of paid medical and family leave, those are targeted to those suffering a loss, so you can call them relief. The “rebate” OTOH is for everyone that meets the threshold condition whether they need it or not (thus annoying our OP), and the policymakers have called it a “stimulus” intended to assist with the general recovery, as was done for the payments that were issued by W and Obama a decade prior.
Why stop at retired boomers? You know a lot of boomers and millennials are still able to work, right? I’m working from home, working the same hours and getting the same pay I was before. I realize how fortunate I am. I also gladly accepted that money because I wanted to pay off my 2009 Impala, and make a dent in the maintenance and repair bills I’ve struggled with. Is…is that okay with you? Or should I burn in Hell for all eternity too, because I got $120 that I didn’t 100% need to survive?
God, you are an insufferable hypocrite.
Ya’ll do realize that SS is a classic welfare program, right? You pay money to older (not necessarily retired) people (who may have to be working part time, if they find anybody willing to give any kind of job to somebody in their 60s or 70s) and when you get old enough, people who are still working full time jobs pay you. If you are drawing SS and working, guess what? You still pay into the system. If you earn enough you even have to pay income tax on the benefits. There have been numerous changes to the program over the years since it was created; won’t list them all, you can look it up. The SSA website has lots of handy and granular info on it if you don’t have too much ADHD, it is a pretty dull read.
We seem to be the only 1st world country on the planet that would rather throw the poor and the elderly to the wolves than to provide for them. While countries like Japan respect their elders, our country tends to mock them and just wish they would die. There is a hefty segment in America who begrudge children a decent meal at school or any other financial assistance for people who have a tough time of it. It’s a short-sighted mindset. Without assistance, poor folks tend to have much bigger health issues and become a huge burden on the health-care system. Guess who is going to pay for that? It’s shameful behavior for people who are quick to crow about this being the greatest nation in the world.
Seriously though, you may as well collect it and invest it to your own advantage, rather than letting the government sit on what amounts to your own money.
You do realize there are two different forms of Social Security, right?
RSDI / SSDI, which is what retirees draw from based on their cumulative work quarters? Also includes survivor benefits and TEMPORARILY disabled folk.
SSI is Federal welfare, capped at a whopping $783 per individual, who the government has decreed as permanently disabled.
Did you know if you don’t have enough work quarters throughout your life, and become disabled, you often start receiving benefits with a combined RSDI and SSI amount? Once your portion of the RSDI benefits run out, you’re left with trying to exist on $783/mo.
So, no, it’s not all a federal welfare program. There is the problem as was noted above by another poster that the funding has been ravaged multiple times plus many people retiring early / pulling out of contributing while collecting early, leaving the fund gutted and whimpering to the point where I doubt there will be much of anything when I can finally retire in 22 years.
And, FWIW, I received $1200 while still working full time. Do I feel guilty? Well, some went to hire an otherwise out of work guy to do yard work, another chunk went to an animal foster agency (one sad side effect of the pandemic are people giving up their animals because they can’t afford to feed them), and the rest paid bills, allowing me breathing room to be able to afford to have groceries and medication delivered.