I am upset about the SS COLA because it affects my federal retirement check. Guess I’ll have to buy one dollar gloves from the bargain bin instead of my recent purchase of $3.99 gloves at Walgreen’s. I’m such a spendthrift! For those of you who begrudge the COLA’s, here’s wishing you a future where you find out what living like a senior citizen means.
“I am upset about the SS COLA because it affects my federal retirement check. “
Moocher. ... I kid, I kid.
Seriously, we are one trillion in deficit / year. We cant afford what we spend and this is actually just a tiny nick compared to the meat ax we need to take.
They should be keeping the whole sequester, cut ALL the govt across the board 10%, raise all the SS and medicare elibility ages, AND means-test them all, AND repeal Obamacare, AND abolish the DOE and 50 other agencies, AND repeal every new spending idea since 2000. Only then could we balanced the budget.
I’m not counting on SS. Nobody should. Its a worthless system outdated and wrong and we should let people escape from it. make it voluntary, and give people an account that THEY own, not Congress. They might as well pay me in zimbabwe dollars by the time i’m ready for it.
The full implementation of Obamacare will steadily reduce the population of senior citizens except for those in the privileged elite. There are lots of savings to be obtained by reducing the number of covered citizens who fail the life cost model assessment for expensive health care.