"You wanna test how damn serious I am about leaving this world, screw with my check that pays for this apartment and food. Try it. See how serious I am. I don't care"

Neither should we. It's his lifestyle choice, and his problem how to fund it...

I have no problem killing myself.

I love it when we can reach a mutual agreement. I have no problem with you killing yourself, either.

I agree with random and jimg. If the only thing keeping him going is that he gets to be a leech, let him off himself.

I saw this on Drudge yesterday and was furious. This is just absolutely disgusting. I really don't know what else to say about this.

Go for it! And take your f**king "baby" with you!

Let his ass die. If we start giving in to terroristic threats like that, every damn loser in the country will be on SSI.

I wonder how many people who should be getting SSI have been turned down, and yet somehow this yahoo manages to get it?

I went looking for who is eligible for SSI:

The amount needed for a credit changes from year to year. In 2011, for example, you earn one credit for each $1,120 of wages or self-employment income. When you've earned $4,480, you've earned your four credits for the year.

The number of work credits you need to qualify for disability benefits depends on your age when you become disabled. Generally, you need 40 credits, 20 of which were earned in the last 10 years ending with the year you become disabled. However, younger workers may qualify with fewer credits.

Unless I missed something, this guy hasn't worked enough to qualify.

Source: Social Security Administration. You can read more about SSI.

Oh, and I think they reuse body bags...oh, like you're gonna complain when they stick you in one... ;-)

How Cute! He's taken himself hostage!

You know, when Sheriff Bart did that in Blazing Saddles, he commented how stupid the people were who fell for that........

I'm supposed to talk him out of solving his problem his way?

Not likely. As our drill instructors told us, be sure to slit your wrists lengthwise, because you want to hit the arteries. If you care about your fellow recruits, who will have to clean up the mess, do it in the shower.

Or you could just suck it up and get with the program, junior.

Can't his roommate get work in a daycare? Ha ha ha.

On the front cover of the WSJ in front of me: "Disability-Claim Judge Has Trouble Saying 'No'... Near-Perfect Approval Record; Social Security Program Strained"

This judge (Judge David B. Daugherty) decided 1,284 cases in the last fiscal year and awarded benefits in all but FOUR.

My mom has poor vision, significant arthritis, diabetes and a host of other problems, and yet it took her over 2 years to get on disability. Meanwhile, we have this GIANT BABY collecting SSI payments, which Mom could not get?

How about one final check with enough money to buy grown-up clothes and put gas in the car to get to the employment office to LOOK FOR A JOB so he can afford the mental help he so obviously needs? Other than that, SCREW 'IM!!!!!!!!

Get back to work, chumps.

Baby (not yours, of course) needs diapers, and you get to pay for them.

I'm grateful that we live in a Land of the Free where anyone can get help for anything (almost), but when guys like Big Claiming-To-Be-Suicidal Baby can get away with indulging their fetishes on SSI (your taxes at work, folks), sometimes I wonder if freedom is just another word for "getting away with being a lazy so-and-so." OY!

never a post about corporations robbing us of billions due to lack of taxes, the real crime, but always a post about some Joe Nebbish screwing all of us for peanuts. That really gets the armchair mob here out of their seats.

Ah yes, corporate taxes, the taxes that get passed onto the customer in most cases.

I don't give a hoot about this guy's fetish but he can pay for it himself.

FG do you realized that the US has the second highest corporate tax rates among OECD countries, second only to Japan? That includes the purportedly 'socialist' countries of Europe - even those crazy Swedes. The idea that US corporations get off easily on taxes is a total myth. The US is actually one of the most highly taxed economies among developed countries, for both corporate and personal taxes. Our taxes are like those that you encounter in third world countries.

As for Mr. Baby Man, someone should call his bluff and move him into an institutional environment. That will clarify whether he's really so far gone that he needs SSI.

Way to jump in with an off-topic first post, FG. Here, we eat neophyte trolls like you for breakfast. You need to go back to 4chan.

"My mom has poor vision, significant arthritis, diabetes and a host of other problems, and yet it took her over 2 years to get on disability. Meanwhile, we have this GIANT BABY collecting SSI payments, which Mom could not get?"

SSI is a racket. Where I live, it's well known that if you hire a certain lawyer and get a certain doctor to examine you, you will breeze through the system. Otherwise, unless your disability is un-ignorably obvious, you will have great difficulty. You'd be stunned at how many drug addicts around here are receiving SSI.

You want to be taken care of for life by government? Tell this baby to start farming instead. Get a job in the Department of Defense or HUD. Find a rich wife.

But disability? That's for babies.

...Ah, yes, those giant corporations that are robbing us by creating jobs for people that are actually willing to work and pay taxes to support freaks who are too lazy/entitled/socially inept to hold down a job. Yes, let's tax them more so they can pass the cost on to the consumer!

This is the most insane bullshit I've seen in a long time.

Someone needs to paddle this cretin's ass. And the big bankers' too.

This guy obviously doesn't take his role-playing seriously enough. When was the last time a real baby intentionally committed suicide?

FG, if you want to read about corporate welfare, you need to click on one of THOSE links. They're not too hard to find, as each topic is separated by double-spacing, bold font, and a different color. When you walk into a coffee shop, do you complain loudly that there is no pizza?

Is his adoptive mother doing attachment parenting? Because he won't grow up properly if she doesn't carry him around in a sling...

By the way, the picture of these people at the Times link kind of made me throw up in my mouth.

*And I can't believe a former NURSE is allowing her "baby" to drink JUICE out of a BOTTLE! That's some lazy-ass "parenting." Teach that boy to use a sippy cup if he's old enough for juice.*

"See how serious I am. I don't care...I have no problem killing myself." Ooooh, won't THAT be a huge loss for society...

Let's get real, folks. Do you think this idiot is employable? Would you hire him? Given that he's NOT employable, what do you do? Wait until he's so desperate he commits a crime, and then put him in jail? That's even more expensive.

And to all the bravado about suicide, I say, wait until you see the results of a suicide. Also, suicidal people are often homicidal, too. So Baby Snookums may take a few innocents with him when he flames out, to show us how cruel we all are.

No, somebody needed to intercede in Snookum's life a long time ago to prevent this train wreck. Now it's all about limiting the damage to society at the least cost.

My former BIL was on SSI. He looked normal and employable, but he was crazy. He tried to climb the White House walls once trying to give his SSI payments "back to the country" (so at least his heart was in the right place), but all that happened was he got arrested by the secret service.

Later, he strapped dynamite to himself, went into a TV station in LA (I believe) and demanded an exorcism because he felt he'd been "possessed" by scientology.

To look at him, one might not think he should be on SSI. He could be incredibly sweet, and he was very intelligent, but, again, he was crazy.

As Dale says, who is going to hire someone like this?

If all this guy has is a fetish, I'd say it's a travesty of justice, but my guess, based on his sucidal threats, is that he's been diagnosed with a mental disorder.

Considering all the people I know and have known with real problems who went through hell getting on SSI, I have no sympathy for this nutcase. I'd just drive him out to a remote farm and leave him there...he can get off his ass and work to survive, or he can not and it'll be no big loss.

People who try to control others with threats of suicide should be told to go right ahead.

I went to his website, where he provides a lot of free services such as matchmaking. Seems is he started charging he could make a bit.

>>"Let's get real, folks. Do you think this idiot is employable? Would you hire him?"

See, but he knows the difference between what is appropriate in public, and what is inappropriate. The article states that he doesn't go out like this in public. And that it's not like he has a caretaker who has to monitor his behavior in public; he seems perfectly able to make that call himself. Also, he's capable of building furniture (which is more than I can do), and specialty furniture at that! So he could be employable. Hell, he could be like my younger brother, and simply be making himself unemployable - my brother is notorious for acting like a complete asshole the minute he gets hired. But if he really wanted to, he could probably build his furniture at home, and sell it online. Little human interaction at all, at that point. Instead, he chooses to do nothing and receive a check for his troubles.