Comments on: $250 Social Security Stimulus Checks are in the Mail

By: Marlene

Marlene — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:16:02 +0000

I am 79 years old, I recieve $588.00 a month social security. Can’t afford to pay for insurance, not even RX insurance. The cost of living raise was not very much but it gave us a little more money each month and over the years our check got a little bigger. I would be grateful for the $250 but would rather have had the raise. I did not get a stimulus check in 2009. Can I get it now? I don’t believe we will get one this year. I do believe that Obama hit the ground running , as soon as he was in office to do all that he can against the elderly. He does not believe that we need to live. Wonder how he will feel in a few years? Oh, that is right, he will never have our problems as he will always have his check from the government for the four years he spent in office working to ruin the U.S. He doesn’t have to worry about groceries and his wife can go on vacations and pay thousands of dollars for hotel accomadations. You people that are thnking Obama, wake up. If he is elected for another four years, this country will not see the end of that four years. As for you, Frank, read your post, you are not the greatest writer. And I pity you, for you will burn in Hell. You are a pitiful sight.
Yes, we got Bush wacked, but Obama is ruining our world. I did not vote for Bush or Obama. All you Obama fans, I hope you wake up and see that he has done nothing but hurt our country and please don’t vote him in again.

By: do

do — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 23:20:04 +0000

if you read carefully,i am not talking about the real dia able. what i am talking is that those people who is not really disable who do not want to go to work. sleep ,eat smoke at anytime they want to .that is base on what i see.i appologized if i hurt your feelings. i do know a lot of people who is in gov aid .i do believed some people disable for the meantime but not for ever if they are young and strong. i am 62 years old and still working. i thank god for that. we have volunteer at work who is in whell chair selling cookies. those pretending dis able people they can work if they want to. go to wallmart. smile and greet people. that is not a hard job. god said, i gave you everything. you do the rest.

By: clarcie brown

clarcie brown — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:28:55 +0000

to the person who wrote the snide comment on people that are disabled. no one asked for you to make remarks about people that are disabled, you should be glad that your not disabled and keep your snid remarks to yourself, something may happen to you one day to make you disabled, then you would know what its like to be disabled.

By: Opal

Opal — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:29:55 +0000

People dont understand that we dont get this because we want it. We could do so much better if we could work. It really does not cover all the things a person needs. I wish I didnt have to get a check from the goverment. I liked working and being around other people. Yes I am one of those people that suffers from depression as you are.

By: do

do — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 01:44:59 +0000

get up and go to work. you people who are not really disable. just lazy. do not fool the gov. please. if you look around in another country, there is no such ssi, fema, la chip, food stamp. income tax return or any kind of help from their gov. they will starve to death if they will be lazy. you are very fortunate that we have a very generous gov. here in u.s.a.wake up and shake those unwanted fat.

By: clarcie brown

clarcie brown — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:05:50 +0000

i am disabled and wish that i wasnt. each day you have to deal with way to much when you are disabled it makes life much harder.i get so depressed, and i know that others like me are depressed allso.

By: Lionel

Lionel — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 07:25:11 +0000

Well said Happy. Damn i wish i could “go to the gym” I used to work out all the time. I wish i made the money i used to make having no cares in life because i could get anything i wanted. I really wish i could walk normal everyday. I wish my arms worked fully. But remember when we were not disabled? We use to think people “on the system” were mostly lazy and needed to somethiong other than sit home. So until people who speak badly about the disabled are rendered disable or one of their family members are rendered disable they will never understand. Yes there are people who use the system but the majority do not use the system. Also people who talk badly about us act like we get all kinds of money. WAKE UP! we do not get enough money. I havent bought myself clothes in 14 years. My family has to help me buy food because it is so expensive. Some time in the future i will need a heart transplant but i WILL NOT get that. Because the just tell medicare people they are to sick to do such an operation. I have seen it happen. We do not get decent medical care. We also pay for our medicare insurance the same as everyone pays for theirs. But ours sucks! But the Senate and Congress have insurance and benefits that makes them more special than the people they vote for. THATS WHATS REALLY WRONG.

By: Happy

Happy — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:41:03 +0000

I dont like to be negative, but I am very fed up with people having something negative to say about people receiving gov’t money and assuming things. I receive social security and I am speaking on behalf of all people who truly need gov’t assistance and are receiving it. Before another comment is made regarding how lazy you think we are or what you think we need to be doing, you need to think before you speak. If people would educate themselves about what it truly means for a person to be handicapped and no matter how hard they try their is no way possible they could work then you would thank your lucky stars that your not that way.
Why isn’t anything ever said about the people who are extremely over paid for doing certain jobs and the fact that they were probably given advantages that other people aren’t given. What about the people who abuse their authority in their job and treat other people like crap and get away with it. Just because your a tax payer does not mean your an honest and good person. How would taxpayers feel if I said they don’t deserve what they get because they have no morals, wouldn’t that make you all upset. So please dont assume anything about anyone receiving gov’t money, you have no idea what people like myself and others have been through or what you think we aren’t doing.

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:53:29 +0000

On Topic: I think the Gov’t should just send every tax payer a treadmill or a 1 year gym membership along with a gift card that says get off ur lazy ass It just might be enough incentive to get us fat lazy (unhealthy) Americans to get up and loose some weight and get a good cardio work out Now hows that for a heath care bill/stimulis package? Also anyone on unemployment or recieving any Gov’t money should be required to go to a gym (on the gov’t dime) and work out. If you miss or don’t get ur paperwork signed off you do get your check Hum imagine that and I am a democrat lol !! So as you can c we are not all lazy and on welfare like the opposition would like u to believe lol !!

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:40:28 +0000

FRANK: I am with you on that one buddy Next time a holy roller hits you up, hit them back with this one What was the last thing Jesus said before parishing on the cross? According to all holy scriptures? “My Lord, My Lord why hast thou forsaken me?”. What right did Jesus have to question ? God? He is the creator … Also if Jesus went around profisizing to so many of his demise, then why would he qestion it in the end? Do not accept the answer that Jesus was human :/ because he was not like you and I He was supposedly the son of God, not just human? There are many marters in old times and in current times that you never hear them question why? So why did Jesus question? Was it in a way for God to tell us it’s ok to question him? FOOD FOR THOUGHT: