(Now please, if anybody doesn't get the sarcasm in that statement, don't say anything snarky about it or we'll make fun of you.)
Posted on 10/15/2010 12:55:22 PM PDT by Washi
President Obama is calling for a $250 rebate for seniors after the Social Security Administration announced Friday that interest rates in 2010 haven't risen enough to justify an increase in benefits next year to the 58 million retirees and disabled Americans who receive the entitlement.
Congressional Democrats, already in a precarious position headed into Election Day, are heeding the president's call.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs announced that in light of the economic downturn and the fact that Social Security will not provide a cost-of-living adjustment for a second year, the president will ask Congress to approve a $250 "economic recovery payment" to seniors, veterans and people with disabilities.
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If they send it to me I’ll buy ammo with it!
If a retired person needs $250.00 in order to survive, it is a strong indication that they were not financially responsible.
Heh heh. Much better. Thanks.
I don’t get it. “Veterans?” Does he mean all vets, or just disabled ones?
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Pretty sure it just means retirees or those drawing a VA disability check.
Of course didn’t Congress vote THEMSELVES a COLA raise? or, to be more exact, didn’t vote to stop it?
I am not for sale. Maybe I am a senior but I am not senile.
I can use the money but that is like 30 pieces of silver.
NOT EVERYONE GETS THIS. When my step-mother passed away my father thought he would get the one-time death benefit. Turns out he couldn't get it because my step-mother never worked enough to draw her own SS and was drawing off of his SS. So they don't take from your SS to give to yourself.
What a joke, hubby and I are still waiting for the last one. We did get a $120 tax hike on his Navy retirement this year. Next year we get hit by a $1,200 tax hike...besides the CommieCare tax hikes. And I’m sure the local gov’t wants a property tax hike to boot. Hubby is 70 and not able to work any longer.
That is a months worth of groceries that’s all it is. You should see the frail elderly lined up at our local community center in Millington, TN..the line has tripled in the past 2 yrs. These are 70-90 year olds most on walkers or in wheelchairs or those funky canes, they qualify for $10-30 in food stamps...now if they were illegals, they’d get tons of FREE healthcare, several hundreds of dollars per month in food stamps and free rent.
DEMOCRATS WAR ON SENIORS...pass it on.
How ObamaCare Guts Medicare
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703649004575437311393854940.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion
Health law’s heavy impact by Paul Guppy (Taxes)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/mar/28/health-laws-heavy-impact/
Monthly premiums to rise for 7 of top 10 Medicare prescription plans in 2011
http://www.startribune.com/business/103642009.html?elr=KArks:DCiU1OiP:DiiUiacyKUnciatkEP7DhUr
Social Security: No 2011 increase expected (COLA)
http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/05/news/economy/Social_Security_cost_of_living_adjustment/index.htm
No Social Security COLA Expected For 2011 News Expected To Be Bad For Democrats
http://www.kptv.com/politics/25344443/detail.html
They forgot to add this to the “Rest of the Story”
Shall we wait to see how the media and the establishment Pubbies handle this one?
Harvard Pilgrim cancels Medicare Advantage plan
http://www.boston.com/business/healthcare/articles/2010/09/28/harvard_pilgrim_
Seniors’ coverage options dwindle as Medicare Advantage programs close shop
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-advantage_22bus.ART.State.Edition1.3c912a9.html
Survey in New England Journal of Medicine 46% of US Doctors Will Quit Obamacare Passes http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2798380/shocking_survey_in_new_england_journal.html?cat=75
ObamaCare has just made me Sicker!
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/bamcare_has_just_made_me_icker_c1dBRZ6M3yuH27rAVnLsvN
In the notice, EmblemHealth told Gowland, who is healthy, “The proposed rate increase includes two components: a basic increase on your type plan and an increase due to the cost of enhanced benefits required by the new federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.”
Mayo clinic stops taking Medicare patients
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=517004
Principal To Cut Jobs, End Med Insurance Business
http://www.kcci.com/money/25224059/detail.html
Obama: We knew health costs would go up
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/118079-obama-we-knew-health-costs-would-go-up
President Barack Obama insisted he can overhaul the U.S. healthcare system without raising taxes for anyone but the wealthiest Americans
The New Federal Wedding Tax: How Obamacare Would Dramatically Penalize Marriage
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/01/The-New-Federal-Wedding-Tax-How-Obamacare-Would-Dramatically-Penalize-Marriage
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1099: The Trojan Horse within Obamacare
http://palmettoinsider.com/2010/09/21/1099-the-trojan-horse-within-obamacare/
Repeal Obamacare: Small-Business Killer
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38496
Senate Expands IRS Form 1099 Reporting Requirement to Include All Rental Property Owner
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/75911
Paperwork nightmare: New 1099 mandate must be repealed
http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/guest/article_61e61666-bbc1-11df-b2c3-001cc4c002e0.html
Health care law*s massive, hidden tax change( 1099*s)
http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/05/smallbusiness/1099_health_care_tax_change/index.htm
Lost in Taxation, The IRS*s vast new ObamaCare powers.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704518904575365223062942574.html?mod=rss_opinion_main
I didn't say that I needed it but that I am a "responsible" person and that there are lots of us at F.R.
I've been retired since I was 54 years old and have never needed "government money".
(Now please, if anybody doesn't get the sarcasm in that statement, don't say anything snarky about it or we'll make fun of you.)
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No kidding. I run the water fund at work, and our price per bottle just increased by 50 cents. Add in the new tax on bottled water, and everybody's dues had to increase.
If he can do this, then why doesn’t he just give an increase instead? It really doesn’t need to be this complicated.
What is the significance of $250? They’ve rebated that same amount several times in the last 3, or 4, years. Do they think that $250 is the magic amount that makes us sit up and be grateful?
Take your $250 and put it where the sun don’t shine. My dad, who worked in restaurants most of is life, would return small tips with a comment “Here, you need this worse than I do”.
Besides, my vote is priceless and I’m doing just fine without that $250.
How much? $14,500,000,000 with a B.
“The state would grow to dominate,
to license tax and confiscate.
To bribe their own electorate
until it fewll beneath its weight.”
Me Is Mine, You Is Yours
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxnBSb4OKeU
Sadly, it will work with some seniors. Pretty shrewd 2 weeks befor an election too.
I’m still waiting for him to pay my rent, buy me a car, put gas in it, and where the heck is my pony!
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