I don't like all the logical explanations for why people on SSI are legitimate. It makes it harder for me to be arrogant and feel superior to them.
Now that's funny. I'm continually fascinated by the "faith based" thinkers (non-thinkers) of our society when it comes to buying the right's propaganda.
My favorite is a real good friend who came from a poor background, little education and no real skill set. During an unusually long winded boom in the homebuilding industry, he accidentally hit it big. His trade is saturated with druggies, drunks, and never do wells, and he figured out that it he could lead a group of these half retarded pirates, he would have some appeal to large homebuilders, who got tired of babysitting these ass clowns. As he became pretty well off, naturally he became rabidly Republican, and as a man of means, thought the poor were all lazy and that 47% of this country lives on government handouts. At this point he became a true Glenn Beck worshiper, buying the books, listening to everything the guy says. During all this time, he earned millions, and saved exactly none of it. Literally had years where he found ways to piss nearly 200K away on everything but an IRA.
Fast forward to the great recession. The work doesn't slow down, it completely stops. New construction starts drop 92% overnight, and he is screwed. The other issue is that he has a spouse who is dying and in need of millions in medical care, if she hopes to make it. In the end, the mansion, car collection, and other shit go to creditors, and they are dead broke. The wife is on Medicare and SSD, and they are now truly poor. Scraping by after relocating to a much cheaper, far more conservative place. What did he learn from this?
Well, you can't give up your beliefs, so you have to adapt. He is now a Christian, Evangelical uber conservative, still spewing the same hate about the poor and those that don't think like him. He is not the problem with this country, no sir, he is a God fearing white boy. According to him, we are doomed by all the minorities who are bleeding us dry, or as he once put it, it's the " Ni...... in the Escalade, that's dropping her kids off for the free school breakfast" That's the problem.
It's one hell of a fascinating train wreck to watch.