{"id":1822,"date":"2018-08-15T13:14:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T13:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2018-08-15T13:14:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T13:14:31","slug":"yes-the-system-is-rigged-but-not-the-way-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/?p=1822","title":{"rendered":"Yes, The System is Rigged.  But not the way you think."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\" UFICommentActorAndBody\"> <span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody _1n4g\">So. I turn 62 soon. I live on SSI and the SS has deemed me totally and permanently disabled. But SSI rules require me to apply for all forms of income that for which I am eligible.<br \/>\nSo I move over to SS which more than doubles my income because, like, I used to earn lots of money. And my husband loses his SSI because of the increase in income. Do the math and we receive an extra $50 per month. Check the rules and that makes our income too high for Medicaid. So we lose Medicaid health insurance.<br \/>\nWe both have heart problems.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama was accused of having Death Panels.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t qualify for Medicare for 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>So tell me again, which party promotes death panels?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So. I turn 62 soon. I live on SSI and the SS has deemed me totally and permanently disabled. But SSI rules require me to apply for all forms of income that for which I am eligible. So I move &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/?p=1822\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-joly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arts-attic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}