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.
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