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Obama calls for $250 payments (bribe) to senior
Breitbart ^
| 10/14/09
| STEPHEN OHLEMACHER
Posted on 10/14/2009 2:29:03 PM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama called on Congress Wednesday to approve $250 payments to more than 50 million seniors to make up for no increase in Social Security next year.
The White House put the cost at $13 billion. The Social Security Administration is scheduled to announce Thursday that there will be no cost of living increase next year. By law, increases are pegged to inflation, which has been negative this year.
It would mark the first year without an increase in Social Security payments since automatic adjustments were adopted in 1975.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 250; calls; greedygeezers; obama; payments
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To: Nachum
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posted on
10/14/2009 2:39:04 PM PDT
by
Deb
(Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
To: Nachum
That’s like $50 in this day and age, and it’ll be taxed like the clunkers I’m sure. Dems are such spendthrifts...
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posted on
10/14/2009 2:40:25 PM PDT
by
Freedom2specul8
(I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
To: Deb
((Or raise their heart rates!))
23
posted on
10/14/2009 2:42:36 PM PDT
by
Freedom2specul8
(I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
To: Nachum
Boy that 68 cents a day is really going to help!!
24
posted on
10/14/2009 2:42:54 PM PDT
by
Ben Mugged
(Unions are the storm troopers of socialism.)
To: RckyRaCoCo
25
posted on
10/14/2009 2:42:59 PM PDT
by
cweese
(Hook 'em Horns!!!)
To: Nachum
I’d like to see them include a note asking them if the seniors would take money from their grandchildren. The
Greatest Generation and their children just can’t get enough of this ‘free’ stuff.
26
posted on
10/14/2009 2:43:32 PM PDT
by
metalcor
To: Nachum
Will white males be exempted?
To: Nachum
That’s like a 3 cent raise. How about slashing government salaries firing a lot of people.
28
posted on
10/14/2009 2:46:45 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: Nachum
LETS JUST CALL IT WHAT IT IS ...A BRIBE!!
I GIVE YOU MONEY ...YOU AGREE WITH HEALTH CARE....I AM OUT OF WHITE COATS!
29
posted on
10/14/2009 2:47:11 PM PDT
by
Texas4ever
(God is in control!)
To: Nachum
So that means that in 2011 when inflation comes back Obama will cut everyone's SS payments by $250? After all, not repeating a one time payment is the same as a cut.
30
posted on
10/14/2009 2:49:27 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Soon everyone will win a Nobel Peace Prize for not being George Bush...well, except for George Bush.)
To: Nachum
President Barack Obama called on Congress Wednesday to approve $250 payments to more than 50 million seniors to make up for no increase in Social Security next year. And we wonder why America is going to hell in a handbasket!
Let me translate this for the California readers....or Floriduh voters....
"...since the government has decided not to send you more money next year, the government has therefore also decided to send you more money next year."
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posted on
10/14/2009 2:49:46 PM PDT
by
NorCoGOP
(Recession: friend loses his job. Depression: You lose your job. Recovery: Obama loses his job.)
To: Nachum
What a joke. How can that be justified by other than political grounds? The COLA formula doesn’t support it.
32
posted on
10/14/2009 2:50:33 PM PDT
by
kabar
To: ex-snook
"By law, increases are pegged to inflation, which has been negative this year. " Negative my arse. YOU LIED.
I think the calculation is from July to July. Last July we had extremely high gasoline and natural gas prices which have plummeted since then, thus the negative inflation rate for the year.
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posted on
10/14/2009 2:51:23 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Soon everyone will win a Nobel Peace Prize for not being George Bush...well, except for George Bush.)
To: metalcor
The Greatest Generation and their children just can’t get enough of this ‘free’ stuff.
Dang right. All us old folk provided you with a pretty good country (millions of illegals think so and try to get in) and allot of inventions to make your life easier.
What have you provided? Invented?
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posted on
10/14/2009 2:52:49 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Nachum
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posted on
10/14/2009 2:54:30 PM PDT
by
omega4179
(pos approval rating -11)
To: Nachum
By off. Give Seniors money now so they’ll support HCR.
36
posted on
10/14/2009 2:56:14 PM PDT
by
rintense
(Senior Marketing / IT / UX architect unemployed and looking for work. Freepmail me if you have leads)
To: Nachum
bribe for support for healthcare.
37
posted on
10/14/2009 2:56:43 PM PDT
by
wiggen
(Never in the history of our great country have the people had less representation than they do today)
To: Nachum
Obama: “Take $250 free, spend it and be happy, and then we kill you.” How nice.
38
posted on
10/14/2009 2:56:51 PM PDT
by
bvw
To: Sacajaweau
Or their social security checks without the loss...its NOT Obozo’s to “give”..after all, social security is all in safe place where it has been accumulating for years safely as it was put in...right? Uh, no?
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posted on
10/14/2009 2:58:33 PM PDT
by
Recovering Ex-hippie
(Pray for Israel! And Georgia ! And the Iranian people! and Honduras!)
To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
"Will white males be exempted?" White males have no rights...just keep working and pay you taxes.
40
posted on
10/14/2009 3:01:59 PM PDT
by
blam
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