In case you haven't heard the US Government has decided to not give seniors a cost of living adjustment in their Social Security check for the next 2 years: Millions Face Shrinking Social Security Payments. Now keep in mind that the COLA is not a huge amount of money. I think my mother got $25/month last year.
Withholding money from seniors is just wrong! We bail out the banks, bail out GM, bail out Chrysler, give Cash for Clunkers (and destroy perfectly good cars that could be driven by seniors) but we won't give an extra $25-$50 bucks to seniors for food and medicine. That makes perfect sense!
To quote this article:
"Seniors may perceive that they are being hurt because there is no COLA, but they are in fact not getting hurt," said Andrew G. Biggs, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank. "Congress has to be able to tell people they are not getting everything they want."
Hmmm...Maybe Andrew G. Biggs needs to be told he can't get everything he wants either as well as Congress, the Senate and the rest of Washington. Then maybe there might be some money left over for Seniors!
