Hawkeye-X (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-30-10 02:36 AM
THE CROSS-EYED IOWA PRIMITIVE FROM DENVER
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Social Security recipients - a question for y'all.
Since the establishing of Social Security, this is the first year that we have had no COLA increase, and we are not expected to get another for next year - I think it's time to write to our congresscritters and ask them they readjust the COLA formula (and I'm sure it's connected to the inflation index) and recalculate it to today's dollars, as well as removing the cap to ensure the surviviability of our safety nets.
Do you agree? If not, why not? Other ideas can be inputted here.
I'm a SS recipient since 2001, and I'm only 34 - but I do have a documented and legitimate disability (shouldn't be hard to figure out what it is)
yodoobo (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-30-10 02:45 AM
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1. One of the things the media ignored is that Obama arrested inflation
Its a virtually unheard of feat, yet the media has completely ignored it.
Obama's control of inflation has made food, fuel, housing and life essentials available to more people. This is ALL a good thing.
The only downside affect is that folks who get inflation adjusted payments don't see an increase in monetary income, however overall their standard of living remains the same since the cost of living remained static for one of the very few times in our history.
I would support giving everyone a base increase, but I couldn't support tinkering with the cola formula to show inflation where it doesn't exist. This is an Obama success and we shouldn't take try to take that away from him just to score a few extra dollars.
gleaner (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-30-10 05:14 AM
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4. No it is not ...
Inflation is not arrested, in fact it is up another point. I just read an article where an economist said that there is no indication it will stop. A 1.5 lb package of chicken now costs about $10.00. Last year it cost around $6.00. If you haven't noticed how steep prices are and how they continue to climb, then you must have quite a bit of money to fool around with.
Don't tell those of us on fixed incomes who are being gouged from all sides while Obama refuses to tax the rich and aims for deficit reduction on our backs which have already been picked clean that we do not need a COLA or that we are not spending as much money for things as we have to spend.
The formula for COLAs does need adjusting. We have been routinely given COLAs lower than the actual rate of inflation for years and one $250 stimulus payment doesn't pay the mortgage or buy food or prescriptions. Obama's inflation plan is working about like his health care bill. Not very well. Just ask the children who were supposed to be covered immediately for preexisting conditions whom the insurance companies are refusing to cover because they say that the bill does not require them to. How many dead children and years of useless litigation will it take to fix it when a simple straight forward bill aimed at the people who needed it and not the insurance companies who profit from what was passed ever happen? Not now apparently.
You can say that something is better than nothing, but it isn't if you are hungry, homeless, sick, freezing, and unable to get medical care or unemployed and unable to get work. The economy is tanked and Obama hasn't done very much to pull it out. The media has said plenty. Even progressive commentators on MSNBC. I don't think there is any wonderful secret that they are conspiring to keep.
elocs (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-30-10 07:30 AM
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7. Wow! $10 for 1.5 pounds of chicken? I can get 10 pounds of legs & thighs for $7.
Yes, that is up a buck from last year but if I ate it everyday it would last me for more than a week. I do appreciate that food prices are low where I live.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8049901
Oh my.
For the record, the cross-eyed Iowa primitive, the tedious, tiresome bore who's allegedly always giving Croesus-sized donations to Democrats and Democrat causes, has a significant weight issue, which perhaps explains his being on the gravy train.
I'm a SS recipient since 2001, and I'm only 34 - but I do have a documented and legitimate disability (shouldn't be hard to figure out what it is)
yodoobo (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-30-10 02:45 AM
Response to Original message
1. One of the things the media ignored is that Obama arrested inflation
Its a virtually unheard of feat, yet the media has completely ignored it.
Hawkeye-X (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-30-10 02:36 AM
THE CROSS-EYED IOWA PRIMITIVE FROM DENVER
Original message
Social Security recipients - a question for y'all.
Since the establishing of Social Security, this is the first year that we have had no COLA increase
$10 for a pound and a half of chicken? WTF?? is he shoppin at the mini-mart?
KFC.
KFC isn't that high, Even deli chicken at the local stores is cheaper. Even Banquet Chicken is cheaper.
Is Banquet Chicken really Chicken? blech.It's one of the few foods in the world of dubious origins that DOESN'T taste like chicken.
But congress gets a COLA....and they have to vote "NOT" to take it.
Forget COLA.....I'm still trying to get my head around someone that has been on SSDI since age 21......WTF??
doc
Forget COLA.....I'm still trying to get my head around someone that has been on SSDI since age 21......WTF??
doc
The capper is when those ****wits at DU call me greedy because I want to keep more of the money I make, all the while they are suckling off the federal teet. :fuelfire: :bird:......and demanding more money.
Freeloading piece of shit isn't too 'disabled' to become a thousand-poster on DU.
:banghead:
Nor too poor to donate Rockefellerian amounts to Democrats and Democrat causes.
That is, if one takes the cross-eyed Iowa primitive for his word that he does.
THATS OUR money he is donating :bird: :bird: :bird: :banghead
Sounds like he needs to get off Gravy Train an on to Fit 'n Trim.
Now that said, I just did a search for boneless chicken breasts.....guess what....
(http://content.costco.com/Images/Content/Product/35057b.jpg)
*Case Sale
Chicken Breasts
Boneless Skinless
60 lb avg
Price Per Pound
Item # 13823
$2.15
http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=10276079&whse=BD_827&topnav=bd&cat=74764&hierPath=74738*&lang=en-US
The gleaner should buy in bulk. :rotf:
You know what really pisses me off about this low life? I have worked all my life, have not taking a dime from the public coffers i.e.(unemployment SSDI etc) and when and if I make it to the age where I could draw on SS it wont be there due to ******* lowlifes like him. LOSE THE WEIGHT DIRTBAG.
Really? A fat person can draw disability? Wow, they must be so fat as to be bedridden, I guess.
Really? A fat person can draw disability? Wow, they must be so fat as to be bedridden, I guess.The Las Vegas Lardass, the Great White Whale Of The Desert, draws full SSDI benefits for exceptional fatness. He's apparently not bedridden, bragging recently about using part of a government check to buy a stationary bike.
Freeloading piece of shit isn't too 'disabled' to become a thousand-poster on DU.
:banghead:
I spent three years trying to convince the government that I wasn't disabled, and still don't feel that I really won. But this whole seeking victimhood thing makes no sense at all to me.
We have two businesses in place, both make some money, but not very much, and for that reason I'm on Social Security Disability to supplement my income.This worthless piece of shit has been sucking on the Govn't teat so long that his brain is dead.
This worthless piece of shit has been sucking on the Govn't teat so long that his brain is dead.
To bad one can't find out if his BS is true and his real name and report his ass to SS Admin. He would be removed form SSI for haveing gainfull employment, required to repay monies recieved while working and possiably get jail time for fraud. Even if he worked under the table and didn't have SS deducted and sent in under his SS# account.
Pices of work like him are why the SS system is in the shape it is in.
Sounds like he needs to get off Gravy Train an on to Fit 'n Trim.
Now that said, I just did a search for boneless chicken breasts.....guess what....
(http://content.costco.com/Images/Content/Product/35057b.jpg)
*Case Sale
Chicken Breasts
Boneless Skinless
60 lb avg
Price Per Pound
Item # 13823
$2.15
http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=10276079&whse=BD_827&topnav=bd&cat=74764&hierPath=74738*&lang=en-US
The gleaner should buy in bulk. :rotf:
This worthless piece of shit has been sucking on the Govn't teat so long that his brain is dead.
To bad one can't find out if his BS is true and his real name and report his ass to SS Admin. He would be removed form SSI for haveing gainfull employment, required to repay monies recieved while working and possiably get jail time for fraud. Even if he worked under the table and didn't have SS deducted and sent in under his SS# account.
Pices of work like him are why the SS system is in the shape it is in.
journals.democraticunderground.com/Hawkeye-X
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I could use some input on this topic: a career change....
Tue Aug 18th 2009, 12:05 AM
Today, even with the downturn of the economy, our workload has gone up and down, and I feel that I'm really stressing my father to keep me employed despite his illness - he had cancer (now in remission), and his recent hospitalization for viral meningitis, and I had to handle all of my Dad's work for the last three weeks, and it really opened my eyes, because I can tell you the truth - I HATE THIS JOB. It's not easy being deaf, working in an IT environment.
Then go to work in a shipyard, fatass. Trust me, being deaf there is a blessing.
I dunno why the Hawkeye-X primitive, who suffers from degenerative hearing loss (loss over time), which is not the same thing as being deaf, has a problem in the information technology (IT) field.
The only thing I can think of, is if the job requires extensive customer contact and communication, well then, that's a legitimate problem.
But generally on detail work requiring intense concentration, as long as they're not interrupted by chitchat, the deaf do pretty good. I know I do; the key is being allowed to work without having to indulge in comments, rumors, conversations, chitchat.
Perhaps the old man should field the customer comments and the cross-eyed Iowa primitive do the work. That works for me.
Frank, the sheer noise in a shipyard environment precludes any type of chitchat or pretty much anything else that entails talking or hearing voices. My hearing loss is significant enough that the noise doesn't bother me as much as it does others.
So, if lardo boy is having a problem with IT work that involves any type of listening, he may want to consider a career change.
I suppose though there's a possibility that if the alleged "criminal past" of the cross-eyed Iowa primitive is true, such a record might preclude the round beach ball from certain sorts of employment.
I dunno; while working in a shipyard would trim the cross-eyed Iowa primitive some, maybe such a job also requires a background check.
Hawkeye-X (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-30-10 02:36 AM
THE CROSS-EYED IOWA PRIMITIVE FROM DENVER
Original message
Social Security recipients - a question for y'all.
Since the establishing of Social Security, this is the first year that we have had no COLA increase, and we are not expected to get another for next year - I think it's time to write to our congresscritters and ask them they readjust the COLA formula (and I'm sure it's connected to the inflation index) and recalculate it to today's dollars, as well as removing the cap to ensure the surviviability of our safety nets.
Do you agree? If not, why not? Other ideas can be inputted here.
I'm a SS recipient since 2001, and I'm only 34 - but I do have a documented and legitimate disability (shouldn't be hard to figure out what it is)
I suppose though there's a possibility that if the alleged "criminal past" of the cross-eyed Iowa primitive is true, such a record might preclude the round beach ball from certain sorts of employment.
I dunno; while working in a shipyard would trim the cross-eyed Iowa primitive some, maybe such a job also requires a background check.
Is Banquet Chicken really Chicken? blech.
Geez. It's like listening to a little kid say he wants to be an astronaut, or a fireman. He wants to be a veterinarian, but is already trying to find out which subjects he can bypass. He seems to think it's a few extra courses.Wow. That's an understatement. It reminds me of the old '80s Saturday Night Live skit where Harry Shearer says that he and his brother have decided to devote the next ten years of their lives to men's synchronized swimming, although his brother can't swim. His childish musings on changing careers from fraudulent disability recipient (he claims to be working in his father's business) to veterinarian make me think his disability is based on retardation:
I know there are many vets (kestrel for one) here in DU, and I wanted to know what the requirements are. I just hope that accounting and calculus (and statistics) are not required, because they were my worst subjects in college, and that was the main reason I left college - mainly of boredom. I can do simple and advanced math, understand chemistry (a little bit - may have to re-take chemistry) and other stuff.
Wow. That's an understatement. It reminds me of the old '80s Saturday Night Live skit where Harry Shearer says that he and his brother have decided to devote the next ten years of their lives to men's synchronized swimming, although his brother can't swim. His childish musings on changing careers from fraudulent disability recipient (he claims to be working in his father's business) to veterinarian make me think his disability is based on retardation:
I think DUmmy Hawkeye-X should go to Europe with DUmmy TwixVoy. Maybe they can both go to veterinary school over there.