how do i qualify for ssi? >> your point is taken but the broader point is when you look at what the government is doing unbeknowns to the viewers. they have scripts written for the bureaucrats to say to the recipient. here's how we overcome your self pride and give you a check even if you don't want it. it is a forced program and saying we want you to take the taxpayer help. >> this thing, mike has a tendency to expand as all government programs do. ssi was meant for the blind, handicapped and elderly. it was a maul amount of money and now larger. all government programs expand. is it not? >> they pitch them as free. but the over all economy. this is a large cost. look at current recovery since june 2009 and since that time median incomes are down 4600 on average. during the recession. they were down on average 2800. and so it was a great cost. >> and when you hear free from the government reach for your wallet and you will be paying for it if you are a taxpayer. college students and parents fed up with soarin

food stamps, ssi, unemployment insurance, social security, we raised the minimum payment. we gave people between 81 and 86. every democrat told us the private pension plans run out and we need extra help. we try to do the right things. it does not mean some of the things we are recommending are not painful, but they have to be. the problem is real. we have tried to make every recommendation made when it comes to revenues so the task code would not be less progressive than it is today. we are willing to, that is part of a recommendation. we believe people in my income tax bracket have got to pay more, whether it come from reducing rates and reducing tax expenditure or raising rates, so i think, if you look at its and you are worried about the future of the country, you know you cannot continue item for item forever with annual deficits of over $1 trillion a year. compound interests will kill you. if interest rates were at the same level they were in the 1990's, the median level, or the first decade of this century, we would be spending $650 billion on interest. we only take

maybe a social security pension, maybe ssi, social security disability insurance. the fact is youth don't have that access to money. we, who are seniors, or have a disability maybe we can work part time. account even though two mayors, brown and newsom talked about free muni for seniors they did nothing to really push for it. the last page of the preparation shows that only maybe 24% of the allotment would go towards this youth support program. that's important to keep in mind. the resolution doesn't say all for maintenance, it says prioritize. you could look at muni's plans and say they're consistent with the resolution. but please don't push for all of it. youth can't work and i'm going to say also, too many elected officials at city hall don't have kids, or don't have kids that really need transit because their family can drive them. we want to change the youth mind that they don't think about needing to be driven to and from school. thank you. >> supervisor wiener: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is francisco decosta. first and foremost let me inform you th

grand mother and i live by myself and i work also part time gases to pay my rent and i'm not receiving ssi yet. so, please give considerations to us, poor people here, working so hard just to pay our rent. so please open your eyes, open your eyes, and heart to us, begging for us to please give consideration to us. thank you.. >> good afternoon commissioners my name is josh should youa and i'm from the housing program of the vettians equity center, we have over 400 clients consistenting of families and workers and one crucial concern is impact on ever increasing rents and fishingcies are more expensive by square foot and more expensive to produce and prompt owners are more likely to raids rent when given the opportunity to do so and yet we show need for affordable housing especially in areas where these are to be built. many families needed affordable housing for deck aids and what we need is affordable housing for seniors and housing that is not limit today a post. and the many policy questions raised by this new development type. not spof sporing it's cap would restrain development based

the tenants at the war 1850s are on fixed income and most of them are on ssi or iga. they are afraid to come out and speak against the managers because they will be evicted. a specific example, just the other day i was waiting outside to speak to as many tenants as -- whom i could talk to because i was not allowed to go inside. when i was speak tog one of the tenants, they said let's go somewhere they can't see us because i'm afraid if they see me talking to someone from the collaborative they are going to -- they won't, you know, they're going to treat us differently. and i asked and they said, they don't open the door for us when we want to go in and they're denied visitors. you can see they're clearly fearful. and also i wanted to bring a specific issue regarding a room which i had seen, i had the opportunity to see before i was kicked out. it's room number 220 which had a ceiling that was falling off. could i put the picture right here? i know it's not clear because it's kind of [speaker not understood], but this is the ceiling here. that's the ceiling. >> could y

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to me, a disabled person has to choose essentially between access and no support or going on the ssi program, which places extremely draconian limits on the income you can earn and what you can save. people on sii cannot save more than $2,000 in assets. until we address these systemic -- the systemic poverty that forces people with disabilities, including autistic people and our families, to be held behind economically, we will not be able to address the disparities in the autism world. >> all of those who have come -- please note that there are some individuals in public office who share much of the hope and much of the concern and much of the anxiety that you have expressed. i thank you, mr. chairman, and yield back the balance of my time. >> thank you, mr. davis. the chairman recognizes the capacity with which you were able to get back " into the record. the chair now recognizes mr. smith. >> thank you very much. i want to thank our panelists for their wonderful insight and incisive testimony. one of the issues that mr. badesch raises is the increased federal response to the needs

these $40 billion cuts in entitlements, are they going to affect ssi, ssdi? guest: we do not know what the administration is talking about yet. that offer came from the administration on the hill yesterday. it was not specific. $400 billion is what we are looking at in entitlement savings and we're not sure if it is ssdi or how beneficiaries would be affected. host: children make up a lot of these credits. which of these are affected by the amount of children you have? guest: some of them do matter. the eitc, there was a law that allowed you to climate for more than three children. that could go away by the end of the year. host: the earned income tax credit specifically. mary from kentucky on the republican line. caller: good morning. we are small business owners. with many of these taxes going up and there are proposals in kentucky to raise some of our state taxes because we have deficits and pension obligations. not only will we be hit with all of these federal issues but we will be hit with the state issues as well. and i think that we are getting close t

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. >> everybody has a kind of cut the president down for being on ssi and social security and all of thatghter and my wife can depend on that. i would give up everything i got right now if i could get a job, but it is not the president. it is the insurance companies that these companies have the will not hire me, because i am too high of a risk. when i go down the street, the people that know me, the slack that i get is really uncalled for. if people would just start -- i do not know the right word. if people would start making an effort to making the world better, instead of trying to cut it down all the time, we might get somewhere. >> i am saddened today. i cannot believe the american people did not vote for a man with a proven record. so what -- he is rich. he knows what he is doing. he gave to charity. he cared about the american people. the media has failed us. that is to a blind, more than anything. i think we need to ask ourselves, and we will find out. saying he did not know he was going to be heard over the microphone -- we will find out what he meant when he talked to the russi

my mom got qualified for ssi when i was in the '80s. i never accepted that. i think most people want to work. i think most americans want to be fair and pay their fair share and work as long as they can. i think the people who are abusing the system are few and i think that's part -- it's just a thrown out there too often so many people doing that. >> one of the people in the medicare is the president's health care law took over $700 billion on medicare. not to strengthen it but to start a new government program for other people. when the president says we have extend the life of medicare. it's only because under the rome at the end of the year in two months reimburstment to hospital and doctors will drop 30% and keep the rates frozen for the next ten years. it will be hard for seniors to get to a see a doctor under the its. we have to say -- could you repeat the question. >> how could we address the medicare shortfall without harming those who pay in to the system for many years. he had the focus changing things focus on the age of 55 what is magic about tha

this is a good project for ssi because popular discontent with the security sec recent security forces was the precipitating cause of the revolutions we all now called the arab springs. security sec is in the nation's very visible, physical and often dangerous manifestation of the dial of fundamental rights and human freedoms in these countries. the aftermath of the revolution, reform of the security sector as an essential requirement for progress towards democracy. unless reform is achieved from a path to democracy is lost in these countries. security is a primary concern of the people and its leaders. in each of these countries, reform of the security sector is required to get the security you security is the basic requirement for political reconciliation and economic development. while there are common features about the security sector across the board in the middle east and north africa, there are also extreme diversities. we'll need to look at three countries that were going to be talking about this morning. tunisia, egypt and libya to see this. tunisia and egypt have very strong

i do receive ssi. i am in college for business and accounting. he is not taking things from us.mney let it be known, just like one of your previous callers made a statement about, he welfare situation. there are some of us that are on it that are working towards getting off of it. they need to stop categorizing us. as far as i am concerned, and democrats are for the people. republicans are from themselves. >> thank you for calling. next up is josh, independent line, from philadelphia. >> good evening. i would like to say that i am very pleased with the results so far. it is a great sense after long hours of knocking on doors and making phone calls finally paying off. >> thanks for the call. next up, we go to a call from mesa, arizona, republican line. >> i would like to say how disappointed i am with how this turned out. i feel like anybody can quit their job and live off of our government, and live off of middle-class people. i think it is horrible. >> as you look back at this campaign, what mom and do you think defined mitt romney? why do you think he lost tonight? >> honestly

these $40 billion cuts in entitlements, are they going to affect ssi, ssdi?uest: we do not know what the administration is talking about yet. that offer came from the administration on the hill yesterday. it was not specific. $400 billion is what we are looking at in entitlement savings and we're not sure if it is ssdi or how beneficiaries would be affected. host: children make up a lot of these credits. which of these are affected by the amount of children you have? guest: some of them do matter. the eitc, there was a law that allowed you to climate for more than three children. that could go away by the end of the year. host: the earned income tax credit specifically. mary from kentucky on the republican line. caller: good morning. we are small business owners. with many of these taxes going up and there are proposals in kentucky to raise some of our state taxes because we have deficits and pension obligations. not only will we be hit with all of these federal issues but we will be hit with the state issues as well. and i think that we are getting close to

[inaudible] >> some of your colleagues on ssi, senate republicans are time of making a deal with with democrats to find a compromise. first of all, what do you make of those efforts? second, how far are you willing to go to to strike an immigration deal with democrats? >> well, that is a good question and i wouldn't have been surprised if i didn't hear it. i think that, i seen a bit of a pattern over the years of people coming into this congress and taking a look at the immigration issue and thinking that they have been negotiation skills to resolve one of the most complicated and convoluted and far-reaching issues that i've seen in this congress. i do think there is a simple solution to this. each time there's a proposal that's brought up, i see whole series of pitfalls. one of them is, it is going to be some kind of a proposal to try to reach an agreement, it has to do with the promise that they'll be enforcement of immigration law, how can even propose such a thing with this president in the white house? when he's clearly violated the constitution, even by his own definition of the