Posted on 10/08/2013 4:47:15 AM PDT by IbJensen
Apparently things arent ugly enough in Washington, so President Obama has started scaring senior citizens.
In a government shutdown, Social Security checks still go out on time, he said last week. In an economic shutdown, if we dont raise the debt ceiling, they dont go out on time.
This scaremongering is completely unnecessary, says Heritages Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs, Romina Boccia.
President Obama is needlessly scaring seniors by suggesting that their Social Security benefit checks may not arrive on time if the U.S. runs out of borrowing authority at the debt limit. The 57 million Americans who receive Social Security benefits should know that their benefits will not be affectedunless President Obama and the Treasury deliberately choose not to pay them.
Boccia details three reasons why Social Security checks can still be paid even if the U.S. hits the debt ceiling.
Meanwhile, Congress is in gridlock confronting the real threat to seniors: Obamacare. For this entire segment of the population, Obamacare threatens: Less access to care Fewer health plan choices Less access to physicians Higher premiums in Medicare Part D Higher taxes
And on top of all that, the future of Medicare is still in jeopardy. As Heritage expert Alyene Senger says, Rather than implementing the structural reform desperately needed in Medicare, Obamacares provisions threaten current seniors ability to access care and leave Medicare in jeopardy for future generations.
There is a real threat to our seniors personal health care decisions and their savings. Congress should act now to defund this unfair, unworkable, unaffordable law.
I am a senior citizen and it doesn’t work with me
A lot to think about here.
I remember as a kid watching World at War with my mother and being horrified. Then later, learning more about it, you, naturally ask--why didn't they just leave?
Of course, as an adult, you understand better why they didn't leave.
1. They believed it wouldn't get "that bad" or, surely, they'd be stopped.
2. You fear losing everything you have or starting over in a strange, foreign place.
The questions, I think, one should be asking himself right now is do you stay or do you flee.
And if you flee, what is your trigger? What is the event that makes you pull the trigger (figuratively speaking for my "friends" who may be "reading" along)
I used to say if people start disappearing. Now, I am adding cancellation of the EBT monies and if something happens to Cruz to that short list.
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