Cost of Living went down last year, so of course there is no
increase in Social Security this year! Logically, there
should be a decrease, to stay proportionate to cost-of-living
decrease. But SS will not do that. It will stay the
same. So SS recipients will be doing better than just getting
the usual cost-of-living adjustment. They will be receiving
morethan what a
cost-of-living adjustment would have been.
Posted by rgoodwin on 15th of Oct 2009 at 11:10 am
You cannot convince me that day to day living costs have gone
down in the past year. House values have dropped YES but day to day
living has done nothing but increase. Please evryone, raise your
hand if your utility bills, gasoline bills, food bills, repair
bills, and more have gone DOWN. Maybe gasoline nudged back a bit
from all time high but it's still almost 3 bucks a gal where I
live. They are going to give the extra money to the seniors to try
and win them back onto the TEAM.
Posted by billrosen on 15th of Oct 2009 at 11:16 am
nicely said Robin...this mini senior bail out is all about
getting votes, as is the refusal to secure our boarders and allow
illegals to stay in this country and cheat the system, be nice to
large groups of people whose votes will keep you in power.
Do you really believe the cost of living went down? Are you
paying less for things now than you did last year? Of course not!
The COLA is based on figures from the BLS which are totally
fraudulent and contrived. Any here not eat or use fuel in
their vehicles? Those figures are excluded in the COLA numbers
calculated by the BLS.
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Social Security
Posted by bobkatg on 15th of Oct 2009 at 11:03 am
Headlines in many reports today were misleading.
Cost of Living went down last year, so of course there is no increase in Social Security this year! Logically, there should be a decrease, to stay proportionate to cost-of-living decrease. But SS will not do that. It will stay the same. So SS recipients will be doing better than just getting the usual cost-of-living adjustment. They will be receiving morethan what a cost-of-living adjustment would have been.
Social Security
Posted by rgoodwin on 15th of Oct 2009 at 11:10 am
You cannot convince me that day to day living costs have gone down in the past year. House values have dropped YES but day to day living has done nothing but increase. Please evryone, raise your hand if your utility bills, gasoline bills, food bills, repair bills, and more have gone DOWN. Maybe gasoline nudged back a bit from all time high but it's still almost 3 bucks a gal where I live. They are going to give the extra money to the seniors to try and win them back onto the TEAM.
nicely said Robin...this mini senior
Posted by billrosen on 15th of Oct 2009 at 11:16 am
nicely said Robin...this mini senior bail out is all about getting votes, as is the refusal to secure our boarders and allow illegals to stay in this country and cheat the system, be nice to large groups of people whose votes will keep you in power.
Do you really believe the
Posted by duesy on 15th of Oct 2009 at 11:08 am
Do you really believe the cost of living went down? Are you paying less for things now than you did last year? Of course not! The COLA is based on figures from the BLS which are totally fraudulent and contrived. Any here not eat or use fuel in their vehicles? Those figures are excluded in the COLA numbers calculated by the BLS.