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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on October 10, 2010, 05:21:15 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9291711
Oh my.
No raise for the subway cat, the obese cross-eyed Iowa primitive, the mountain man primitive, &c., &c., &c.
Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-10-10 05:58 PM
Original message
No cost-of-living hike for Social Security again
No cost-of-living hike for Social Security again
Expected announcement before election couldn't be worse for Democrats
WASHINGTON — As if voters don't have enough to be angry about this election year, the government is expected to announce this week that more than 58 million Social Security recipients will go through another year without an increase in their monthly benefits.
This week's announcement about Social Security benefits raises more immediate concerns for older Americans whose savings and home values still haven't recovered from the financial collapse: Many haven't had a raise since January 2009, and they won't be getting one until at least January 2012.
"While people aren't getting COLAs they certainly feel like they're falling further and further behind, particularly in this economy," said David Certner, AARP's legislative policy director. "People are very reliant on Social Security as a major portion of their income and, quite frankly, they have counted on the COLA over the years."
Social Security recipients got a one-time bonus payment of $250 in the spring of 2009 as part of the government's massive economic recovery package. President Barack Obama lobbied for another one last fall when it became clear seniors wouldn't get an increase in monthly benefit payments in 2010.
Congress took up the issue, but a proposal by Sen. Bernie Sanders died when 12 Democrats and independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut joined Senate Republicans to block it. Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine was the only Republican to support the second bonus payment.
Read the full article at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39603054/ns/business-your_r...
Vinca (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-10-10 05:59 PM
THE HIP-IMPAIRED VINDICTIVE PRIMITIVE, A NOTORIOUS RE-SELLER
Response to Original message
1. And to think they dare to speak of tax cuts for the wealthy.
aquart (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-10-10 06:05 PM
Response to Reply #1
3. But it's expensive to be rich and so cheap to be poor.
The rich need help!
stray cat (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-10-10 06:09 PM
Response to Reply #3
9. The wealthy are not getting an increase in SS either
demosincebirth (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-10-10 06:06 PM
Response to Reply #1
4. They have no shame!
dkf (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-10-10 06:05 PM
Response to Original message
2. Did anyone get a raise over the last 2 years?
bbinacan (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-10-10 06:08 PM
Response to Reply #2
6. Not me.
stray cat (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-10-10 06:09 PM
Response to Reply #2
7. Not only no raises but many got cuts in pay
DJ13 (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-10-10 06:11 PM
Response to Reply #2
11. No
Im on disability, so no increases for me.
My wife works for a hotel that has spent hundreds of thousands in upgrades, but no raises there since 2008 (and even that was puny).
We're starting to feel like the frog in the pot as the water temperature slowly increases.
bbinacan (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-10-10 06:07 PM
Response to Original message
5. COLA is based on CPI.
Short of changing the law, nothing can be done.
DJ13 (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-10-10 06:09 PM
Response to Reply #5
8. They could give more one time stimulus checks to recipients
bbinacan (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-10-10 06:10 PM
Response to Reply #8
10. Why?
DJ13 (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-10-10 06:12 PM
Response to Reply #10
12. Because the CPI is a manipulated statistic that fails to show real inflation
Thats why.
Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-10-10 06:13 PM
Response to Reply #5
13. Not really. Congress can vote to give Social Security recipients a special cost-of-living payment
As Senator Sanders will propose, hopefully with the al-out backing of the Obama administration.
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-10-10 06:11 PM
Response to Reply #2
11. No
Im on disability, so no increases for me.
My wife works for a hotel that has spent hundreds of thousands in upgrades, but no raises there since 2008 (and even that was puny).
We're starting to feel like the frog in the pot as the water temperature slowly increases.
Whoa whoa whoa.... did this guy seriously just use a Glenn Beck analogy?!??!
I. Am. Amused.
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The Beck brainwashing is working. /s
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Whoa whoa whoa.... did this guy seriously just use a Glenn Beck analogy?!??!
I. Am. Amused.
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The Beck brainwashing is working. /s
The "frog in the pot as the water temperature slowly increases" analogy is older than dirt.
I find it more amusing that the primitives decry how money is tainting politics, but they immediately want to hand SS recipients money so they won't blame the Dems. Hypocracy, thy name is liberals.
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Oh I know it's a dated analogy but it has "relatively recently" been brought to the forefront (again) by their public enemy #2 (#1 is truth)... the point still stands.
The left continues its tirade against logic.
I firmly believe that they don't have the ability (or are just unwilling) to connect two related points but they would seriously attempt (and fail miserably) to connect the price of a carpet square to the smell of potpourri.
Anything they're for I'm inherently against because they suffer from "cut off your nose to spite our face" syndrome.
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When the gravy gets as thin as rain water run off from the WAL-MART parking lot....it'll be just about right.
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Anyone relying on SS for their main source of income is either a complete idiot, or a DUmbass!
Doesn't matter how many times we bring up the fact that SS was never intended to be retirement, they still whistle thru the dark forest,afarid of their own shadow, hopin' the BogeyMan Repubs won't jump out and bite them, thereby infecting them conservative principals!
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NEVER FEAR!!!!
All government employees will get a 3.4% COLA.