Posted on 10/15/2009 7:39:15 AM PDT by jdfromny
You. Have. Got. To. Be. Kidding. Me: President Obama on Wednesday attempted to preempt the announcement that Social Security recipients will not get an increase in their benefit checks for the first time in three decades, encouraging Congress to provide a one-time payment of $250 to help seniors and disabled Americans weather the recession. “One-time payment” my foot. Reminder: There is no such thing as a temporary government entitlement. Obama endorsed the idea, which is expected to cost at least $13 billion, as the administration gropes for ways to sustain an apparent economic rebound without the kind of massive spending package that critics could label a second stimulus act.” “$13 billion” my foot. Reminder: There is no such thing as a temporary entitlement that ever costs less than the government estimates.
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Wait a minute... I just got my pants pulled back up from the last ‘bail out’!!!!!
It’s a “bait and switch”. He took away their cost of living increase so that he can give them $250. Why not just give people the cost of living increase? Funny that he will throw them a bone just in time for healthcare reform...But, I know that seniors will realize that this is the same bone he took away.
Hell, it’s just play money anyway.
It really doesn’t matter now if it’s 13 billion or 13 trillion...
the dollar will be worthless soon when the chickens of deficit spending come home to roost.
Our children will have to tell the gov’t “I guess you’ll just have to default on those bonds, cuz we ain’t paying for it.”
Barry’s “stash” is bottomless....
I am not so sure he took away anything...the cost of living formula showed no increase. I am not defending the indicator, just what it said btw.
This is nothing more than buying some more votes, pure and simple. These asshats care not one whit about anyone except getting their Progroms (SIC) put through, the country be damned.
Anybody have recent approval poll numbers for obama, Dems broken down by age????
He thinks he can calm his most ardent opposition of the government takeover of health care and rationing. Seniors. And he thinks he can do it with a $250 ‘carrot’ before the stick, of not giving expensive medication that may be needed later, simply let them die. But hey, he gave them a check!
Of course he had no problem not a word spoken, when the announcement they wouldn’t be getting a cost of living raise....
I was just saying (perhaps not very clearly) that he could have just given them a cost of living increase instead of putting it in the form of a bribe.
It’s the same bone smarty is pulling his pants back up from.
These Washington folk are like adolescents with an unlimited credit card.
“Oh gee, this cute $250.00 puppy will keep grandma company...”
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Who (else) thinks Palin would win in a landslide if she vowed to cut the size of the federal gubbamint in half?
Probably the same split in the country and voting as it is now, nearly 50-50.
Half the country wants to steal what the other half has.
And the other half just wants to be left alone.
As long has “O” crafts his ‘plan’ to THEIR limited understanding and expectations, that $250 will buy him the green-light he needs on everything else ....no matter how dangerous, fraudulent, irresponsible or unreasonable it is to the rest of thinking and truly hard-working America.
Remember... for Liberals, only the prospect of immediate, concrete, personal (albeit, temporary) gain is important!!
“A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely. His sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.” Cicero, speech to the Roman Senate
NOWHERE TO HIDE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqw7kXG0kxU
BOHICA, DUDE. BOHICA!!
“But, I know that seniors will realize that this is the same bone he took away.”
No, no, my wife and I are totally sucked in by more free money from President Blarney Obama’s stash. The instant gratification (well, not really instant; chump change buyoffs to large numbers of people take a long time to get through the bureaucratic pipeline) will undoubtedly make us forget that Democrats have killed annual cost of living increases.
All of the Seniors I know are wise beyond their years. How can he possibly think that they would fall for this? Does he really believe that we are ALL that stupid? Obviously he does.
I actually thought it was a fair decision to make to freeze cost of living increases. Inflation is low and most seniors are living on a fixed income, but also have fixed costs.
This puny $250 payment just makes him look wishy-washy and patronizing. What a jerk!
This is subtle. The Government is screwing the Social Security beneficiaries by not giving them any increase (if i remember correctly the formula was changed some time ago) but O is adding folks who don’t get SS because they are already covered under other pensions which exempted them from Social Security. So they paid into their pension versus the SSA? Right? so that means the government and union folks get a little bonus while they still stiff the folks who should be getting a decent cost of living increase. YOu know i didnt think it before but this guy ranks right up there in my book as a good candidate for antichrist. he is all about payback.
My 70 cents per day will be going to goose up the pharma economy which, in spite of ‘no inflation’, seems to be going up. My market basket is not loaded with gasoline purchases. It also won’t offset my interest income which is going down. Expenses going up and income going down is a bummer economy.
I wonder how many dead people are on the list to get these checks.
Also, people in prison will probably be receiving these checks.
This is a lie or it is mis-dated.
We already got an unwanted and cannot return or refuse payment of $250 in May.
Right after that was sent out, we all got told that there would be NO COLA increases for 2010 AND 2011.
I wondered then how anyone could predict the cost of living that far ahead of time, but now I think I know.
NObama is working to destroy America, so there will be no increases in SS for the foreseeable future.
Meanwhile, NObama wants all of us seniors on SS to pay a new insurance premium. Such premium is not clear as to cost per individual or how much.
I currently recieve just over $1030 a month, and if I am expected to pay ANY premium for “insurance”, when I already have Medicare, that is charging me for something I don’t use.
The rumor that the premiums will be paid from now until the insurance kicks in in 2013 is also abhorrant. That is paying for something that does not even exist.
Since there's always an increase in the amount they take out of the S. S. check each year for medicare, I imagine this is just a sop to soften the blow soon coming with the notification of how much more they will be deducting each month.
They know it won't play well in Peoria that they are giving no cost of living adjustment for at least the next 2 years yet WILL increase the deduction amount taken out for medicare.
So they'll throw the bone, as you say, that was first taken away, and then they'll take it back in increased medicare costs.
At the same time, they accomplish another goal - stirring up the ire of younger folk against seniors whom they think are living off them...divide and conquer. And add the layer of folk who will go along with seniors being denied life saving treatment as it's time for them to do society a favor and go quietly to the beyond - even tho' prematurely.
It's not for naught that the younger generations have been indoctrinated into this mind set in the government indoctrination camps - aka public schools - starting with the lifeboat games.
Doubt that? Go back to the thread on this from yesterday and read some of the truly vitriolic posts from some freepers against seniors and social security and this 'bone.'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362604/posts
most seniors are living on a fixed income, but also have fixed costs.”
FIXED COSTS-—not by your best guess.
Propane fluctuates all over the place.
CAP & TAX energy legislation will drive all our power costs way up..and most of us seniors are very frugal with power in the first place.
Gasoline hits us, and many seniors have medical issues which require trips to the nearest VA or whatever to get treatment.
We still pay property taxes on houses which includes school taxes for kids we no longer have in the system. Some of us NEVER had any kids in the first place..we really have been screwed.
It amounts to $21 a month. Now maybe that’s a lot to some, but it’s a drop in the bucket for my 85 YO MIL, paying her own way in an assisted living facility. I guess you could take the “every little bit helps” approach, but they’re bankrupting our country’s future, so I just don’t see that it’s worth it for $21 a month.
Tell you what, 0bambi, don’t do this travesty, and I’ll give my MIL $21 a month, not just this year, but for the next couple of years. I bet a lot of other families would do the same. Stop the spending!!!
Figures can lie and liars can figure.
No cost of living increase? Been grocery shopping lately, for one small example.
Also, they announced there would be no COLA for at least the next TWO years. SO, if they're going on the 'cost of living formula showing no increase for this year - just HOW are they getting the figures for NEXT year ahead of time?
I further suspicion that they are about to vote THEMSELVES in another hefty COLA raise - and didn't quite dare without, as you say, throwing a bone to those who got none.
Don't I wish.
Just my property tax alone jumped up over $300 this year...town can't say WHY in a decreased market - but there it is - Not to mention the cost of groceries - sure wish THEY stayed fixed for us old foggies year to year - etc.
That $250 won't even cover the cost of increased prop tx
I have a friend whose taxes went from $6,000 to $9,000 in one year.
The Socialist philosophy includes the belief that old folks living a big house that could 'house' more people are unfairly taking up room.
I'll give you just one example:
A few years back, our country seat town had a socialist mayor. Seniors were being taxed, routinely, out of their homes.
I was discussing one case with a local shop keeper one day about a widow, 85 years old, that was still living in the house she was born in, raised her children in, etc.. Her property tax doubled and she was trying to get it reduced as she simply couldn't pay it and would be forced out of her home.
During the conversation, our mayor walked in and we included him in the talk.
"Well," says he, "these older folk that take up a whole house have got to learn that that's not fair - or, if they still insist on staying there, let 'em get a job and make the extra money."
Unfortunately, no one was hiring 85 year olds that year.
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