[Bob]

If he’s so damned compassionate, why did he push through that bogus s.s. freeze in the first place?

There was no freeze pushed through. Social Security COLA increases are determined by a formula based on increases in the CPI, not voted on yearly.

[Fresh Wind]

And, of course, the CPI is showing very little inflation.

Funny how that works out. It couldn’t be that the government is lying to us, could it?

[thulldud]

Social Security COLA increases are determined by a formula based on increases in the CPI,

And the CPI is "cooked" to hide the inflation that the COLA is supposed to offset.

[Cicero]

No, they don’t vote on the COLAs, as you say. But they do fudge the CPI. It is gotten almost completely bogus. And, at the moment, the buck stops with Obama.