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Obama Calls for Emergency $250 Payments to Social Security Recipients
Responding to the Labor Department's expected announcement that Social Security recipients will not see an increase in their benefit checks for the first time in three decades, President Obama called for one-time emergency payments of $250 for seniors, the disabled, and others receiving Social Security, the Washington Post reported Thursday. The payout, which will cost $13 billion, is part of the administration's ongoing effort to sustain the economic rebound without a massive additional stimulus bill.
Yearly increases in Social Security benefits have been a "ritual" since the 1970s, when the government moved to ensure that benefits kept pace with inflation. Last year's increase was an unusually high 5.8 percent, but stagnant consumer spending this year marks the first time that the Labor Department's formula will prescribe no increase.
Stagnant Prices Prevent Social Security Increase [Washington Post]
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Yearly increases in Social Security benefits have been a "ritual" since the 1970s, when the government moved to ensure that benefits kept pace with inflation. Last year's increase was an unusually high 5.8 percent, but stagnant consumer spending this year marks the first time that the Labor Department's formula will prescribe no increase.
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Pete
10:38AM Oct 15th 2009
With 500 billion in proposed Medicare cuts for seniors what a coincidence Obama is choosing NOW to come up with a $250 vote buying check to grease the skids for Government Run Health Care.
Stop the BS politics with our money and just give seniors a COLA.
Stop the BS politics with our money and just give seniors a COLA.
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Charles
10:46AM Oct 15th 2009
Forget the $250. Its a slap in the face. Write your congressman. They are the ones behind it all. This morning the banks are going to give out another big bonus. Bigger than last time. Enough is enough.
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(7) jim
10:49AM Oct 15th 2009
Buy back those seniors,Barry!!...Course the same libs were laughing when Bush sent out 400...and we don't have the money which means more debt..which means Obama lied in 08 when he said you will not sign anything that added to the deficeit...and the 250 is gone and then some before it ever gets to us...but its the thought that counts
Its 14 billion not 13 million
Its 14 billion not 13 million
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(7) raposa
11:22AM Oct 15th 2009
I would like to tell BHO that I may be on social security but I am not taking charity. If you send me $250, I will send it straight to the RNC to get rid of you and your band of Elmer Gantries.
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(0) beckjr2000
11:22AM Oct 15th 2009
I guess someone told him that the elderly are not drinking their Koolaide!
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(2) dan
11:22AM Oct 15th 2009
as someone who is on disability and receives less then 800 a month i can say to all you nay sayers that this would not only help me but is very much needed you try to pay your bills with that kind of money and to read all this negative input is very disheartening
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(7) libslie0066
12:52PM Oct 15th 2009
Congress increased their own benefits this year, or didn't you know that? This is a joke, I am retired also, and for this President to tell us that our costs of living have not gone up is another bald faced lie. Wait until next year, when we will be paying taxes on many more items we use in our every day life, including heating bills, electricity, food, etc. You need to find out what is happening all around you. We are on the bottom of the list as a concern to this President.
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(7) libslie0066
12:49PM Oct 15th 2009
You can't make up absurdities better than this!
Isn't politics grand?
HURRAH FOR THE DEMOCRATS!
Jesse Jackson's Newest Staff Member:
Mel Reynolds
Jesse Jackson has added former Chicago Democrat
Congressman Mel to Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's payroll.
Reynolds was among the 176 criminals excused
in President Clinton's last-minute forgiveness spree.
Reynolds received a commutation of his six-and-a-half-year
federal sentence for 15 convictions of wire fraud, bank fraud,
and lies to the Federal Election Commission.
He is more notorious, however, for concurrently serving
five years for sleeping with an underage campaign volunteer.
This is a first in American politics: An ex-congressman who had
sex with a subordinate.... won clemency from a president who had
sex with a subordinate...then was hired by a clergyman who
had sex with a subordinate!
His new job?
R U ready for this?
YOUTH COUNSELOR
IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY OR WHAT?
Isn't politics grand?
HURRAH FOR THE DEMOCRATS!
Jesse Jackson's Newest Staff Member:
Mel Reynolds
Jesse Jackson has added former Chicago Democrat
Congressman Mel to Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's payroll.
Reynolds was among the 176 criminals excused
in President Clinton's last-minute forgiveness spree.
Reynolds received a commutation of his six-and-a-half-year
federal sentence for 15 convictions of wire fraud, bank fraud,
and lies to the Federal Election Commission.
He is more notorious, however, for concurrently serving
five years for sleeping with an underage campaign volunteer.
This is a first in American politics: An ex-congressman who had
sex with a subordinate.... won clemency from a president who had
sex with a subordinate...then was hired by a clergyman who
had sex with a subordinate!
His new job?
R U ready for this?
YOUTH COUNSELOR
IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY OR WHAT?
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(6) CJ
1:12PM Oct 15th 2009
NOW WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED BY THIS VOTE
meet the senators who voted pro gang rape
October 8, 2009
In 2005 —
Twenty year old American Jamie Leigh Jones was drugged and gang-raped by KBR co-workers in Iraq. [That attack was so violent, her breasts are permanently disfigured.] After her attack she was locked in a shipping container without food or water, and after release warned not to leave her post. Jamie was a long way from anywhere with no help in sight. She stuck it out. [Jones is not an isolated case.] And, after Jamie made it back to U.S. soil, where there should have been help in sight, she was prevented from bringing charges in court. Her KBR contract stipulated sexual assault allegations could not be made in court. Sexual assault allegations could only be heard in arbitration.
In response to abuses of the “arbitration” contract clause used by military contractors like KBR, Senator Al Franken (D-MN) recently proposed an amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill that would withhold defense contracts from companies that contractually block employees from taking workplace sexual assault and battery cases to court. The Amendment passed. You would think something like this would pass unanimously too. Surely our Senators in Congress do not want to employ and protect companies that sanction gang rape? But it did not pass unanimously.
Thirty Senators voted against the Franken amendment. They all have four things in common. They are all Republicans. They are all white. They are all male. And judging by their votes, they all think gang rape is just a little horseplay among friends. Here are their names. And if you didn’t vote McCain/Palin be glad. McCain is on the list.
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbied against the Franken amendment as well. I guess being opposed to co-worker gang rape is not good for business?
meet the senators who voted pro gang rape
October 8, 2009
In 2005 —
Twenty year old American Jamie Leigh Jones was drugged and gang-raped by KBR co-workers in Iraq. [That attack was so violent, her breasts are permanently disfigured.] After her attack she was locked in a shipping container without food or water, and after release warned not to leave her post. Jamie was a long way from anywhere with no help in sight. She stuck it out. [Jones is not an isolated case.] And, after Jamie made it back to U.S. soil, where there should have been help in sight, she was prevented from bringing charges in court. Her KBR contract stipulated sexual assault allegations could not be made in court. Sexual assault allegations could only be heard in arbitration.
In response to abuses of the “arbitration” contract clause used by military contractors like KBR, Senator Al Franken (D-MN) recently proposed an amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill that would withhold defense contracts from companies that contractually block employees from taking workplace sexual assault and battery cases to court. The Amendment passed. You would think something like this would pass unanimously too. Surely our Senators in Congress do not want to employ and protect companies that sanction gang rape? But it did not pass unanimously.
Thirty Senators voted against the Franken amendment. They all have four things in common. They are all Republicans. They are all white. They are all male. And judging by their votes, they all think gang rape is just a little horseplay among friends. Here are their names. And if you didn’t vote McCain/Palin be glad. McCain is on the list.
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbied against the Franken amendment as well. I guess being opposed to co-worker gang rape is not good for business?
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(0) maggie
1:11PM Oct 15th 2009
Does he realize how many elderly and disabled don't even care where the money comes from? They don't vote. They think only of themselves. They couldn't care less who is running this nation. Just gimme the the money. I know of many that are already looking forward to how much drugs they can buy with this money. They laugh about it. I know that there are also, very many who can really use this money. Not to take away from their needs. However, it disgusts me the way the druggies laugh at it all!
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(-7) bonbon
6:55PM Oct 15th 2009
Maggie, I see what you are saying, and you are absolutely right.
there will always be those who abuse, and it is impossible to weed them out.
there will always be those who never get involved.
and there will always be those that really need, and deserve the help.
that is just the way it is.
there will always be those who abuse, and it is impossible to weed them out.
there will always be those who never get involved.
and there will always be those that really need, and deserve the help.
that is just the way it is.
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(6) bonbon
6:42PM Oct 15th 2009
so instead of a raise that goes with the cost of living we get a whole $250.00.
so should we save it, or put it towards that extra $1700.00 we are exxpected to be paying this year thanks to cap and trade. or are we supposed to divide that up for the year, which amounts to a whole $20.83 a month. or better yet $4,81 a week. or is supposed to last for the next 2 years. yep here we go again.
I do not deny this tidbit won't help, but it is like trying to fix a leak in Hoover damn, with a bandaid.
and what a lot of you do not realize is everyone on social security pays a monthly premium for medicare, we do not get it free. plus we have to meet a deductible every year, plus we pay the difference that medicare does not pay.
so before you start cheering realize, this really won't help in the longrun.
and as Mrs. Big ZERO herself stated whn Bush gave out his stimulus checks last year,
' "You're getting $600.00- what can you do with that?" Mrs. Obama said in Pontiac, Michigan last week "Not to be ungrateful or anything, but maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn't pay down every bill every month. The short-term quick fix kinda stuff sounds good, and it may even feel good that first month when you get that check, and then you go out and you buy a pair of earrings. " '
Michelle Obama's $600 Earrings, written by Amanda CArpenter, Tuesday, July 15, 2008.
or maybe you prefer this. from the big ZERO himself.
from Obama 08: Barack Obama's plan to stimulate the economy.
"The goal should be to lessen the pain that waould occur from an economy-wide slow down, not to use American's economic hardship, as a rationale for enacting an Ideologically Driven Agenda."
so $600.00 was not enough, especially as she points out you go out and buy a pair of earrings with it, duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
remember that was when gas was $4.00 a gallon,..
and no one should use bad economic times to further their own IDEOLOGICALLY DRIVEN AGENDA.
and if that does not make them both hypocrites, I don't know what does.
so should we save it, or put it towards that extra $1700.00 we are exxpected to be paying this year thanks to cap and trade. or are we supposed to divide that up for the year, which amounts to a whole $20.83 a month. or better yet $4,81 a week. or is supposed to last for the next 2 years. yep here we go again.
I do not deny this tidbit won't help, but it is like trying to fix a leak in Hoover damn, with a bandaid.
and what a lot of you do not realize is everyone on social security pays a monthly premium for medicare, we do not get it free. plus we have to meet a deductible every year, plus we pay the difference that medicare does not pay.
so before you start cheering realize, this really won't help in the longrun.
and as Mrs. Big ZERO herself stated whn Bush gave out his stimulus checks last year,
' "You're getting $600.00- what can you do with that?" Mrs. Obama said in Pontiac, Michigan last week "Not to be ungrateful or anything, but maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn't pay down every bill every month. The short-term quick fix kinda stuff sounds good, and it may even feel good that first month when you get that check, and then you go out and you buy a pair of earrings. " '
Michelle Obama's $600 Earrings, written by Amanda CArpenter, Tuesday, July 15, 2008.
or maybe you prefer this. from the big ZERO himself.
from Obama 08: Barack Obama's plan to stimulate the economy.
"The goal should be to lessen the pain that waould occur from an economy-wide slow down, not to use American's economic hardship, as a rationale for enacting an Ideologically Driven Agenda."
so $600.00 was not enough, especially as she points out you go out and buy a pair of earrings with it, duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
remember that was when gas was $4.00 a gallon,..
and no one should use bad economic times to further their own IDEOLOGICALLY DRIVEN AGENDA.
and if that does not make them both hypocrites, I don't know what does.
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