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Well, this is well outside of my area of expertise, but the only factual dispute attached to the image in wikipedia is that SSI is only available to people esse
by chefandy 3y ago
Well, this is well outside of my area of expertise, but the only factual dispute attached to the image in wikipedia is that SSI is only available to people essentially assumed to be out of the work pool. From the SSI site: "Little or no income, and Little or no resources, and A disability, blindness, or are age 65 or older." That's a pretty tiny slice of that graph. Maybe it just hasn't been thoroughly interrogated but my gut says that whoever attached that SSI criticism would have probably addressed more severe discrepancies first.
The source-- a libertarian blog-- implies that the problem is welfare itself, but I think the bigger problem is a naive approach to means testing that is entirely divorced from economic reality.
- hammock 3y agoThe primary source is a welfare bureaucrat, Gary Alexander, Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Public Welfare, not a libertarian blog: https://youtu.be/Ruzo8bm96Io?t=2191 https://youtu.be/Ruzo8bm96Io?t=2191
- p_j_w 3y agoThis fact alone doesn't mean much. He was appointed by a Republican governor and could very easily be a liberterian ideologue to the same degree of said blog.
- pierat 3y agoSo you actual critique over the chart provided and the claims made therein, rather than your ad hominem? I don't care who it was. Are the claims verifiable, and are the derived claims defensible?
- p_j_w 3y agoNo, that's not my critique at all. If you go back and read the comment I was replying to and then my reply, you'll understand why I said what I said.
- autoexec 3y agoA conservative "welfare bureaucrat" who was brought in to gut the welfare system
- chefandy 3y agoThanks for the correction. I know nothing of that person.
- tossedacct 3y agoYou mean former Secretary of Public Welfare, who resigned after two years on the job in 2013. He now runs an anti-welfare consulting business. He was highly controversial during the two years he was in the job, and the Obama administration had to step in. He also claimed he was moving to Pennsylvania, and then used public funds to commute to his Rhode Island home instead.