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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.
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!
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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