Tlbuljac...

You can find the certificate in under sixty seconds on the 'net.

Your term for the president is ignorant and dispicable.

You are a defective human being.

RixPix...Let us agree that what he said was medically WRONG. Also, his statement was 100% in agreement with repub actions and policy.

The republicans spend more time in women's underwear than women do.

It is just catching up...tom

Sarge...how would YOU know????

CHARLIE...

  WHAT  IS  SSI?  

SSI stands for Supplemental Security Income. The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers this program. SSA pays monthly benefits to people with limited income and resources who are disabled, blind, or age 65 or older. Blind or disabled children may also get SSI. 

 


  HOW  IS  SSI  DIFFERENT  FROM  SOCIAL  SECURITY  
  BENEFITS?  

Many people who are eligible for SSI may also be entitled to receive Social Security benefits. In fact, the application for SSI is also an application for Social Security benefits. However, SSI and Social Security are different in many ways.


Unlike Social Security benefits, SSI benefits are not based on your prior work or a family member's prior work. Social Security benefits may be paid to you and certain members of your family if you are “insured” meaning you worked long enough and paid Social Security taxes.

SSI is financed by general funds of the U.S. Treasury--personal income taxes, corporate and other taxes. Social Security taxes withheld under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) or the Self Employment Contributions Act (SECA) do not fund the SSI program.

In most States, SSI beneficiaries also can get medical assistance (Medicaid)  to pay for hospital stays, doctor bills, prescription drugs, and other health costs.

Most States also provide a supplemental payment to certain SSI beneficiaries.

SSI beneficiaries may also be eligible for food assistance in every State except California. In some States, an application for SSI benefits also serves as an application for food assistance.

SSI benefits are paid on the first of the month.

To get SSI, you must be disabled, blind, or at least 65 years old and have "limited" income and resources.

In addition, to get SSI, you must:
––be a resident of the United States, and
––not be absent from the country for a full calendar month or more or for 30 consecutive days or more; and
––be either a U.S. citizen or national, or in one of certain
    categories of eligible non–citizens.


If you don't like this, you ain't much of a human being. I buy iy.

You do not get SS without paying in...just ain't so, what you say.

SteveR...

I have Never had produce photo ID for a Dr. Visit or for notorization...NEVER!

The people involved are too poor to drive....do you think they need a passport?

T H E R E. I S. N O. V O T E R. F R A U D ! ! !

This is a poll tax, punishing poor, black voters, who generally vote Democratic.

It is a partisan Republican tactic that abuses Democracy, and

I T. S T I N K S.


Shame on you...Tom

Marcomarks...verrrrrrry interesting.




Wrong, but...

OP-ED COLUMNIST
When Cruelty Is Cute
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: August 14, 2012 225 Comments
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Times Topic: United States Elections

I’d been wondering how long it would take Republicans to realize that Paul Ryan is their guy.

He’s the cutest package that cruelty ever came in. He has a winning air of sad cheerfulness. He’s affable, clean cut and really cut, with the Irish altar-boy widow’s peak and droopy, winsome blue eyes and unashamed sentimentality.

Who better to rain misery upon the heads of millions of Americans?

He’s Scrooge disguised as a Pickwick, an ideologue disguised as a wonk. Not since Ronald Reagan tried to cut the budget by categorizing ketchup and relish as vegetables has the G.O.P. managed to find such an attractive vessel to mask harsh policies with a smiling face.

The Young Gun and former prom king is a fan of deer hunting, catfish noodling, heavy metal and Beethoven. He’s a great dad who says the cheese, bratwurst and beer of Wisconsin flow in his veins. He’s so easy to like — except that his politics are just a teensy bit heartless.

Rush Limbaugh hails Ryan as “the last Boy Scout,” noting that the tall, slender 42-year-old is a true believer: “We now have somebody on the ticket who’s us.”

For the rest of us, at least, Ryan is not going to raise our hopes only to dash them. Unlike W., he’s not even going to make a feint at “compassionate conservatism.” Why bother with some silly scruple or toehold of conscience?

Unlike some of the right-wing ayatollahs, Ryan doesn’t threaten with moral and cultural gusts of sulfur. He seems more like a friendly guidance counselor who wants to teach us how to live, get us in shape, PowerPoint away the social safety net to make the less advantaged more self-reliant, as he makes the rich richer. Burning the village it takes to save it, so we can avoid the fiscal cliff, or as he and his fellow conservative Cassandras ominously call it, “the debt bomb.”

Like Mitt Romney, Ryan truly believes he made it on his own, so everyone else can, too. He shrugs off the advantage of starting as the white guy from an affluent family, able to breeze into a summer internship for a Wisconsin Republican senator as a college student.

Only 16 and the youngest of four when he discovered his lawyer dad dead in bed from a heart attack at 55, Ryan had to grow up fast.

The Midwestern kid was guided by what David Stockman calls “Irving Kristol’s ex-Trotskyites” turned neo-cons; Jack Kemp, the cheery supply-sider who actually cared about the disadvantaged, and by one of Kemp’s favorite authors, Russian émigré and cult leader Ayn (pronounced like swine, as she used to say) Rand.

“And the fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism,” Ryan said in a 2005 speech to the Atlas Society. He even gave copies of “Atlas Shrugged” to staffers at Christmas. He did not emulate Rand on everything, given that she adamantly opposed Ronald Reagan, saying, “Since he denies the right to abortion, he cannot be a defender of any rights.”

Ryan co-sponsored the Sanctity of Life Act enshrining a fertilized egg with the definition of “personhood” and supported a bill Democrats nicknamed the “Let Women Die Act,” which would have let hospitals that get federal money deny women abortions even in life-threatening circumstances.

And Rand would not have approved of Ryan’s votes in the House backing W.’s profligate spending on unwinnable wars, a bank bailout and a Medicare expansion. She would no doubt have been thrilled, however, that under the Ryan budget plan, the megarich Romney would go from paying shamefully as little as possible in taxes to virtually no taxes.

Ryan was drawn to Rand’s novels, with their rejection of “the altruist morality,” making narcissism a social virtue; her exhortation that man must not only strive for “physical values” — her heroes were hot — and self-made wealth, but a “self-made soul.” Like John Galt, who traces a dollar sign “over the desolate earth” at the end of “Atlas Shrugged,” Rand idolized the dollar. She wore a brooch shaped like a dollar sign, and a 6-foot dollar sign stood beside her coffin at her wake.

Although the Catholic Ryan told Fox News’s Brit Hume in an interview that aired Tuesday night that he “completely disagreed” with Rand’s “atheistic philosophy,” he said his interest in economics was “triggered” by her.

His long infatuation with her makes him seem even younger than he looks with his cowlick because Randism is a state of arrested adolescence, making its disciples feel like heroic teenagers atop a lofty mountain peak.

The secretive, ambiguous Romney was desperate for ideological clarity, so he outsourced his political identity to Ryan, a numbers guy whose numbers don’t add up.

This just proves that Romney will never get over his anxiety about not being conservative enough. As president, he’d still feel the need to prove himself with right-wing Supreme Court picks.

Ryan should stop being so lovable. People who intend to hurt other people should wipe the smile off their faces.

BLURREYEYED

What year does social security go broke? Medicare?

Cathie...sad, misguided thinking.

Sinatraman...your posts speak for themselves.

ALL Hard drives fail. Only a matter of when. They are physical, and physical things wear out...sometime.

The M disc doesn't etch the info on a cd/DVD, but changes the material underneath to synthetic stone.

Not qualified to judge, but I'm trying it.

Come back in a thousand years and I'll tell you how it worked out.

Tom

OHenry...

Suggest you look at M disc. Regular CDs can go bad (though mine haven't) but the M disc is supposed to be good for a thousand years.

Burner is reasonable, disc is about $3.50.

Just saying'

Tom

Many thanks...I'll try it...let you know. really appreciate your response.

Cheers, tom

JoelS...

Try searching Lightroom in YouTube.com

You could learn to overhaul your car in YouTube.

You'll find any number of things, including photoshop, too.

Generally they do one topic at a time.

Good Luck...

Tom