Poverty not funny.

We were informed that Kentucky has a disproportionate number of people on SSI (thus summoning the hillbilly stereotype?). Not surprising since we have a disproportionate number of poor people who do whatever they can to shelter, feed, and clothe the family. The implication is that some of those on SSI could jolly well be working. Maybe so, if the job required no more muscle power than that required of accountants to cook the books, executives to cash in their stock options in the nick of time, or state and federal legislators to vote themselves raises and more pension benefits in the dead of the night. The legislators' emoluments, I want you to remember, come from that same bucket that the SSI checks come from, as do those wonderful welfare checks that go to corporations to raise their bottom line and even help them move to Third World countries so they won't have to pay the wages here that might lift some of those people off of welfare.


http://www.ruralstrategies.org/campaign/loyal.html



Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and other aspects of the safety net are being cut, but you aren't disabled, so it's not your problem -- right? Think again.

http://www.unknownnews.org/050607a-Panther.html