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Hawkeye-X (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-30-10 02:36 AMTHE CROSS-EYED IOWA PRIMITIVE FROM DENVEROriginal 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)
yodoobo (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-30-10 02:45 AMResponse 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.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 AMResponse to Reply #1 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 AMResponse to Reply #4 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=389x8049901Oh 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 AMResponse to Original message 1. One of the things the media ignored is that Obama arrested inflationIts a virtually unheard of feat, yet the media has completely ignored it.
Hawkeye-X (1000+ posts) Tue Mar-30-10 02:36 AMTHE CROSS-EYED IOWA PRIMITIVE FROM DENVEROriginal 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.
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
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. ......and demanding more money.
Freeloading piece of shit isn't too 'disabled' to become a thousand-poster on DU.
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 :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....*Case SaleChicken BreastsBoneless Skinless60 lb avgPrice Per PoundItem # 13823$2.15http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=10276079&whse=BD_827&topnav=bd&cat=74764&hierPath=74738*&lang=en-USThe gleaner should buy in bulk.
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.
