Originally Posted by Just Susan

I am a counselor in a Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center (Criminal Division). We are classified MI / CD ...mental illness / chemical dependency.

It is the goal of a fair percentage of our women to get placed on SS because it is a guaranteed income for life. Social Security is also a higher monthly income than Welfare.

We are in a state that has generous benefits and easy restrictions. People come here from all over the United States to take advantage of our benefits. If you know how to play the game, you can get free medical including tummy tucks, gastro by-pass, new glasses, complete set of dentures, several times, (cause they loose them when they leave treatment, go back to getting high, then go to jail and back to treatment, where they get their second set of teeth. I could site many examples of the abuse to our Social Security, Welfare, Medicare systems.

The sad part, the really sad part is that the recipients have been and are teaching their children and grandchildren, of which there are many*, how to use/abuse the system in the same way.

*To have given birth to 9 children all of whom have been taken from them for the safety of the children is common. The prevailing wisdom is that these children should now be raised by the same family members that helped to screw up the addict...cause family is always best you know...

Social Security is in the tank. What it was supposed to be for, has grown beyond recognition, it now takes care of the old, a little, the disabled & infirm quite a bit, as a replacement for Welfare...a lot.