I was injured on the job in 1997.  It took 3 years of surgery to find out that I couldn't go back to the job I loved. I was retrained into a job that I can't do, and have been trying to make that work for the last few years, but can't seem to keep a job for more than a couple of months because my spine is continually getting worse.  My wife and I have lived in a small travel trailer for a couple of months with our 2 kids and 2 dogs, lost our home, 2 cars, now I've lost my wife and family, etc.  I am wondering why, after serving my country in the Army, then going out, finding work, trying to live the American Dream, as President Obama so likes to call it, why is it that I am forced to live below the poverty level, on SSI, while you sit there pumping money into these companies that arent' doing anyone any good at all, why can't you pump some money into the PEOPLE of this country, and not $300.00, or even 1200.00, but real money, something that will really affect their lives,  so that they can pick themselves up off the poverty line.  I can't see how you can live with yourself, Mr. Obama.  I hear your words but see no meaning behind them, just a lot of rhetoric, playing the game.