Social Security income

$11,880 is the poverty line for one person.

I receive $13,284 income from SS per year. Looong story!

Maximum rent allowed to qualify at that income = $369 per month or one goes to a ‘cheap’ motel.

Locally, a 1 bedroom apartment in a shit-hole Section 8 pit goes for a minimum of $500/month and from bitter experience, a 5’ 4”, 120 pound, 66 year old, badly stroke-crippled white man can expect to be eaten alive by the absolute garbage that lives in these holes. Shear Hell. It’s truly amazing what mindless, vicious beasts crack-head black ‘people’ can be. Last time I was forced to live with such, it cost me 3 years of my life and now, constant pain. I was raised in the deep ‘souf with kids of all races and back then, there was no more animosity among us than among anyone of any group. Of course that was 50+ years ago.

For fun, the Section 8 qualifier has a 29 page form that MUST be filled out. The information is allowed to go to idiot bureaucrats in essentially EVERY miserable state and federal agency. One must remember how ‘secure’ these ‘agencies’ are. So many of the questions have absolutely NO business being on such a form that it is impossible to ascertain why they are on there to begin with.

...so I live in a hindu-run roach motel with zero chairs, 1 bed (don’t ask. Took me 2 weeks to get the original sheets changed for ones without fresh bloodstains on them), 2 drawers (again, don’t ask what was in them except the roaches), and a broken-down vanity. It costs $725/month. Oh, I can’t get the wheelchair into the pocket-sized bathroom. So far, no disasters! ;o)

$725 x 12 = $8,700

I ‘make’ way too much to qualify for food stamps.

$13,284 - $8,700 = $4,584 left over for food, transportation, clothing & laundry, ‘entertainment’, medical deductibles, good things like soap, dish washing detergent, etc. or $382 per month. That’s $12.73 per day left over for everything. You keep hearing stories about old folk eating pet food, living in dives, and taking their needed meds in partial doses to stretch them, now you know why.

As giant a change as the present accommodations and income are from my pre-stroke existence, it is pure heaven compared to my ‘life’ in an alleged ‘health care’ center. Places like that are waiting rooms to Hell. One is better off dead than the absolutely soul destroying, health destroying misery of such. You can read about my experiences with the medical ‘care’ in one of those here if you are so inclined.

There is nothing to be done about the stupidity of the present ‘system.’ Like a frog in the pan of water with the heat set on low, we were cooked so slowly that before we realized it, we were too weak to do anything about it. Those with the brains to have done something about it have dwindled to a very few and those without, have bred into being the vast majority. Vote wisely? We’re out of Eisenhowers and Reagans. We have Trump, Clinton, Sanders, and Cruz.

***sigh***

update: 

Obama budgets $17,613 for every new illegal minor, more than Social Security retirees get

President Obama has budgeted $17,613 for each of the estimated 75,000 Central American teens expected to illegally cross into the United States this year, $2,841 more than the average annual Social Security retirement benefit, according to a new report.

The total bill to taxpayers: $1.3 billion in benefits to "unaccompanied children," more than double what the federal government spent in 2010, according to an analysis of the administration's programs for illegal minors from the Center for Immigration Studies. The average Social Security retirement benefit is $14,772.

The report notes that the president's budget, facing congressional approval, includes another $2.1 billion for refugees, which can include the illegals from Central America, mostly Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

...you might want to read the rest.

update, 4 May, 2016

Illegal immigrant numbers skyrocket at Mexican border

Mike Lillis - 05/04/16 06:52 PM EDT

Child migration is surging again.

The number of families and unaccompanied children apprehended on the southern border has skyrocketed this year, according to new figures from the Obama administration.

The numbers, compiled by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), reveal that child migration is on par with 2014 levels, when a wave of kids –– thousands of them unaccompanied –– arrived at the southern border.

The surge of illegal immigration quickly swamped border authorities, immigration courts and health and humanitarian workers, while sparking a political battle on Capitol Hill over the cause and proper response to the crisis.

The new figures raise the specter of another increase this summer. That would almost certainly inflame another political showdown in a volatile presidential year in which the issues of race, immigration and border security have been pronounced — particularly due to the hard-line enforcement approach adopted by the presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.

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If you've got the stomach for it, read the whole article.

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