Whenever I hear the words "we need smaller government," IMO, what they are saying in a round about way is that agency's like the Social Security Administration , needs to make agency cuts. Which makes the already understaffed agency that is overworked and stressed to the max, left to bear a case load beyond the agencies capabilities. Then the employees, are making decisions under pressure, with an overburdened caseload the employees are likely to make mistakes. Of course,the people who already qualified and have been on SSI and SSDI for a long time, it won't surprised me if they have to review their cases, and make sure they still qualify. For instance, If you haven't been going to the doctor for you aliments, or you've been working part time, or something in your household has changed. I saw a story on TMZ that I'm still baffled about, a rapper took a camera crew from MTV in his limo to go pick up food stamps. He was bragging that they owned him the money. Here he is a millionaire and was collecting food stamps? By the way a lot of people will lose their food stamps also. That's another agency that will suffer cuts. They've been trying to get rid of welfare for a long time.


http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-mone...tration?page=2

"The facts can be scary things when you try to hide them," said Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee ranking member Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.). "This hatchet job isn't trimming fat … it’s cutting deep into the bone of a recovering economy. A Republican budget that cuts Social Security and costs American jobs would be a nightmare if it weren’t true."


Edward Coyle, executive director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, said his group is outraged by the "cold-hearted ways in which House Republicans are trying to lower the budget deficit on the backs of seniors, persons with disabilities and young survivors."