[oh8eleven]

McConnell ... wants to reduce the annual cost of living adjustment to the Social Security payments
For the last six years ...

• 2009 - 0.0
• 2010 - 0.0
• 2011 - 3.6
• 2012 - 1.7
• 2013 - 1.5
• 2014 - 1.7

That averages out to about 1.4% per year ... and the SOB wants to reduce it further? MFer ought to be shot.
BTW - with all those "raises," SS recipients also get a corresponding increase in their Medicare premiums.

[sport]

Well, he is the pride and joy of Kentucky.

[Fledermaus]

First, these small increases also can’t keep up with inflation. The real inflation, not the lies the government tell us.

Second, you are correct in that Medicare premiums go up sometimes cutting into the previous monthly check.

As usual they all nibble around the edges without getting to the meat of the issue: these ponzi schemes are out of money. Period.

[mountainfolk]

I wonder if all other govt programs and govt employees, and everybody who gets money from the taxpayers will also get cuts? How many govt welfare entitlement recipients pay anything at all into their benefits programs? The govt takes SS from workers and their employers as well and it cannot be stopped or both would be out of a job. So now the push is on to cut the income of those who paid for the govt imposed insurance program from which they are now entitled to receive payments. In addition SS payments to seniors already docks the amount of the yearly raise in medicare payments. Medicare takes a hundred plus dollars each month. And with OBAMA care, supplemental insurance plans also go up yearly.

But not to fear. Countless new immigrants are being rounded up from various countries and dumped in America to be housed, clothed, fed, educated, medicated, and cared for all their lives. Where does all of this money to bring them in and provide for them come from?