[Washi]

This is a blatant attempt to buy the votes of seniors with taxpayer money.

Notice that this happens two weeks before the election, is announced on Friday afternoon to avoid the immediate attention of conservative talk shows, and benefits those democrats in congress that will "push the president's agenda forward."

This makes me sick, and I hope the seniors will see it for the bribe that it is, and not sell their vote for a measly $250.

[Fresh Wind]

Sorry King Baraq, my vote isn’t for sale.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

So King Barry is going to rob from the taxpayers and/or borrow to throw some coins to the peasants again with this “rebate”.

The only place this is going to end is the first hyperinflation that the USA has ever experienced.

[Graybeard58]

This makes me sick, and I hope the seniors will see it for the bribe that it is, and not sell their vote for a measly $250.

I promise, it won't buy mine......There! Feel better now?

[SF_Redux]

that will be 2 extra cans of catfood for any holiday dinners they have

[SWAMPSNIPER]

If they send it to me I’ll buy ammo with it!

[americanmother]

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.

[GailA]

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.

[GailA]

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”

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/jan/22/chain-email/chain-e-mail-says-congress-raised-own-salaries-whi/

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

[Kenton]

Wow, manna from DC! This must be that "Obama money" I heard about! I'm gonna take mine and use it to spend the summer in the south of France...

(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.)

[Nachum]

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[HollyB]

If he can do this, then why doesn’t he just give an increase instead? It really doesn’t need to be this complicated.

[afraidfortherepublic]

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?

[NTHockey]

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.

[BenLurkin]

“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

[count-your-change]

Rest assured I would never sell my vote for a crummy $250! I want at least $300! AND a tee shirt.

[Candor7]

This is a blatant attempt to buy the votes of seniors with taxpayer money.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

We got the answer for 'em.Obama and his CongreRATS are nothing but clay pigeon targets NOW! Buahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

[calex59]

Don’t worry that SOB could offer me $250,000,000 and I still wouldn’t vote for him. Most seniors I know feel the same way about it.

[GOPJ]

It's not a 'measly $250' for some people. Those people who chose to work "every now and then" - or part time sometimes - might only be receiving $300 a month in Social Security to start with... For them - this is big.

For the person who worked their whole life, played by the rules, and tried to get ahead - and paid a lot into the system - this is nothing.

Obama's doing a redistribution from those who paid into the system to those who didn't pay crap...