Comments on: SS ‘Freeze’ Means Seniors Must Scrimp

By: Confucius

Confucius — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:31:32 +0000

Never mind that as a group ‘seniors’ are the wealthiest class of people in the US.

Don’t forget how they get all the discounts and best parking spaces. (Not including the NO PARKING ZONEs, where they seem to like to park.)

By: retire05

retire05 — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:59:29 +0000

I find this who “the Democrats gave us Social Security” thing to be absolutely laughable. Now, Obama, in his great wisdom, thinks seniors can be bought for a measly 250 pieces of green paper that is rapidly losing its value due to his policies.

Let’s not forget the facts on the ground: when FDR, and the Democratic Congress passed the largest Ponzi scheme ever known to man, they set the age of retirement at 65 for a reason. The average life expenctancy of a white male, at that time, was 58. Much less for a black male. So men would have to live at least 7 years beyond norms before they would collect a dime. And in the wisdom of the Democrats, knowing that women lived longer, and stood a better chance of collecting SS, they reduced the benefit to women.

You see, Social Security was a feel-good bill. It was meant to show that FDR, the great savior, was going to take care of all America’s old folks. Few at the time even bothered to point out that you were only meant to pay into the system, but not live long enough to take anything out.

Then, using the Democrats standard of wisdom, along comes LBJ. He decides that there is waaaay too much money just lying around in the Social Security Fund and hey, why not just go ahead and use it. And then came another brilliant idea; hey, let’s require seniors, who have working spouses, to add their SS payments into the joint income so we can tax money that was never meant to be taxed.

So now they think they can buy seniors off for $250. Because, after all, it will be taxable for most senior, will not even cover the cost of Medicare Part B for three months, and the nation will say “How wonderful the Democrats are”.

By: Tater Salad

Tater Salad — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:31:18 +0000

Sorry President Obama, I do not want your $250.00 to buy my vote for your so-called “reforms”. As a combat wounded Vietnam veteran, Marines and disabled I will however take the money and it will go to the Republican Party to replace you and your Marxist commrades in the coming 2010 elections and yours in 2012. Have a nice day Sir! I was wounded multiple times and it just makes me hurt inside to know that me and my buddies (!st Marine Division) gave your hearts and soul keeping this country free from socialism and communism and you and your commrades are just giving it away without a shot. God Bless America damn it!

By: Liberals Demise

Liberals Demise — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:19:46 +0000

Someone invite dingleBarry over their house for Purina Cat Chow on crackers and kool-aid. See if it tastes like that dip he doses out on Wednesday nights to his socialist clan.

By: U NO HOO

U NO HOO — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:04:23 +0000

I receive Social Security and I aint beeching about no raise. I don’t need no steenking raise.

My emploer’s pension has never and will never go up.

I read the fine print and live with it.

Keep the measly $250 stimulus or whatever Obama is calling it. If he can’t give me enough for an extra week’s go away vacation I don’t want to be bothered.

Poke chops and arugula sound good to me.

SEG

By: MinnesotaRush

MinnesotaRush — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:51:17 +0000

The ACORN gang and its’ ilk seem to be doing nicely (homes, cars, cell phones, food, cash …); and our public servants in congress and the administration aren’t missing out on any COLA’s.

Just sayin’, ya know.