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Old 12-08-2010, 04:57 PM
 
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After two consecutive years with no COLA increase the repubs blocked this $250.00 payment to seniors.

I'm a long way from SS, but thought I'd play devil's advocate, since there are probably quite a few retirees on this site.

GOP blocks legislation to award seniors $250 - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101208/ap_on_bi_ge/us_social_security_no_cola - broken link)
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Old 12-08-2010, 05:01 PM
 
Location: Pa
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What pork was attached to the bill? What other legislation that had nothing to do with seniors was attached to the bill?
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Old 12-08-2010, 05:04 PM
 
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The economy shrunk, tons of jobs lost, we are looking for ways to reduce government employees and the retirement pensions they bamboozled us with through the bought politicians.
I think the $250 is a gimmick to make hay for political reasons.

Old people should want to fire all the Democrats and Obama anyway.
Passed Obamacare to supposedly save money, now if you don't have insurance they will fine you up to $5000 and after AARP backed Obama, they also had to increase the cost of their insurance by 15% this year to deal with Obamacare. That right there is talking lots more dough than the $250.

Look at the $250 and be mad, but forget about the extra $6500 Democrats want to cost you?
It's a diversion IMO.
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Old 12-08-2010, 05:05 PM
 
Location: Midwest
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Hey all you seniors that fell for the rhetoric of the Republican candidates, how do you like your Republicans now?

Thats right. They will give tax breaks to the wealthy and rob from the senior citizens who live on a fixed income. I could have predicted this.
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Old 12-08-2010, 05:05 PM
 
Location: Long Island (chief in S Farmingdale)
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What pork was attached to the bill? What other legislation that had nothing to do with seniors was attached to the bill?
Nothing
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Old 12-08-2010, 05:06 PM
 
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What pork was attached to the bill? What other legislation that had nothing to do with seniors was attached to the bill?
and was the bill paid for under the paygo laws?
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Old 12-08-2010, 05:07 PM
 
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Going after the seniors? Talk about a low blow, looks like "get a job grandma" is coming sooner than later.
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Old 12-08-2010, 05:07 PM
 
Location: Midwest
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The economy shrunk, tons of jobs lost, we are looking for ways to reduce government employees and the retirement pensions they bamboozled us with through the bought politicians.
I think the $250 is a gimmick to make hay for political reasons.

Old people should want to fire all the Democrats and Obama anyway.
Passed Obamacare to supposedly save money, now if you don't have insurance they will fine you up to $5000 and after AARP backed Obama, they had to increase the cost of their insurance by 15% this year to deal with Obamacare. That right there is talking lots more dough than the $250.

Look at the $250 and be mad, but forget about the extra $6500 Democrats want to cost you?
It's a diversion IMO.
Why would senior citizens need to buy health insurance when they already have Medicare?

Show us something that validates your math and I don't mean something from Glenn Beck!
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Old 12-08-2010, 05:09 PM
 
Location: Silver Springs, FL
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Thanks for the heads up, when my Mom calls, wanting to kvetch about this, I'm gonna let the phone go to voicemail.
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Old 12-08-2010, 05:09 PM
 
Location: Pa
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According to your link:
The increase for 2009 was 5.8 percent, the largest in 27 years. It was triggered by a sharp but short-lived spike in gas prices to above $4 a gallon in the summer of 2008. By law, the next increase in benefits won't come until consumer prices as a whole rise above what they were that summer.

Basically, they have their benefit levels flatlined at a time when they're encountering higher costs, reducing their quality of life experience and disappointing them greatly about Social Security," said Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., a member of the Ways and Means Social Security subcommittee.

Rep. Sam Johnson of Texas, the [COLOR=#366388! important][COLOR=#366388! important]top [COLOR=#366388! important]Republican[/color][/color][/color] on that subcommittee, acknowledged that disappointment but noted the big increase seniors received in 2009 and the fact that a COLA increase means there will be no rise in Medicare Part B costs for doctors' visits. "Increasing our nation's crushing deficit on the backs of our children by an additional $14 billion is wrong," he said.
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