When they make heavy use of welfare, they take from Americans who are in desparate need. I’m not referring to what freepers typically call lazy, non-working folks. I’m talking about disabled and elderly Americans who cannot get the help needed, even after working a lifetime and paying into Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. Non-citizens, including the benefits drawn by illegal alien families with an anchor baby and illegal aliens who scam the system by working ‘under the table’ AND collecting welfare (2 ‘income’ families) are draining the system.
I became ill and disabled after having worked for 25 years. I applied for SSD benefits. Because there are more than 10,000 people applying in Ohio, it took more than 3 1/2 years for me to be determined ‘disabled’ by a judges bench decision. In the meantime, I lived off of my 401k for as long as it lasted (paid big $s for COBRA) and was then forced to ask for ‘welfare’ assistance. (but for the Grace of God...a truly humbling experience) Funds are so limited with the majority going to these families with children, that an American adult, disabled or elderly, is expected to live on $115 a month cash to cover housing, utilities, and other expenses. Funds for housing assistance have been depleted by these families, no help available for over 3 years now and applications are closed, even for the elderly & disabled. Now that I am finally receiving SSD, which is based on my 25 years of work (10 yrs required for an American, govt would give illegals after 18 mos), I and other Americans with disabilities, stand to lose, as illegal aliens and our illegal alien-loving government, threaten to destroy what’s left of our SS system.
Instead of cutting ‘entitlement’ benefits for the elderly and disabled, we MUST put an end to anchor citizenship and, undeserving/unearned, Federal/State benefits for illegal aliens. I’m passionate about it because my life depends on it.
Bless your heart. Your post choked me up, and reminded me of another friend. He had a major childhood illness that progressively left it’s mark as he got older. But, by the time he realized that something terrible was happening to him, he was no longer able to work, and had no income - therefore no doctor. He couldn’t get medical diagnosis or care, medicine, or treatment. He couldn’t even get food stamps for three months. He got sicker and sicker, and took shelter where he could find it.
It sickens me to think our country can abandon it’s own citizens in time of need (yet give subsidies to those who are breaking the law by being here illegally.)