No Raise for Soc.Sec. or retired military......
Oct 19, 2015 06:18:00 #
The cost of living index says no raises this year, does that mean no raise for Congress? :roll:
Oct 19, 2015 06:30:10 #
I would put money on NO!!! :) They are our leaders!!!:(:(
DaveO wrote:
The cost of living index says no raises this year, does that mean no raise for Congress? :roll:
Oct 19, 2015 06:40:22 #
Oct 19, 2015 06:40:50 #
hj
Loc: Florida
.... but there's plenty of money to fund all the i******s and those who have been on welfare most of their lives.
Oct 19, 2015 06:57:47 #
Plenty of money for some of my park trash relatives and they're not i******s.....why work if you don't have to??
Oct 19, 2015 07:05:43 #
DaveO wrote:
The cost of living index says no raises this year, does that mean no raise for Congress? :roll:
No raise since 2009.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/19/congressional-pay_n_7337282.html
Oct 19, 2015 07:07:41 #
hj wrote:
.... but there's plenty of money to fund all the i******s and those who have been on welfare most of their lives.
+ 1.
Oct 19, 2015 07:22:07 #
jerryc41 wrote:
:thumbup:
Oct 19, 2015 08:10:44 #
Oct 19, 2015 08:44:47 #
warrior wrote:
Tighten my belt one more notch :thumbdown:
It's a Catch-22. There's no Soc Sec increase because prices haven't risen enough to justify one. If there had been considerable inflation, the small Soc Sec increase would still have left us behind. I prefer lower prices to a small increase in pay.
Oct 19, 2015 08:59:04 #
jerryc41 wrote:
It's a Catch-22. There's no Soc Sec increase because prices haven't risen enough to justify one. If there had been considerable inflation, the small Soc Sec increase would still have left us behind. I prefer lower prices to a small increase in pay.
Oil prices are largely responsible for the computation. It is a foregone conclusion that many older retirees hardly benefit from this decrease, but instead are facing higher healthcare costs. I know of people in their later years that are already facing higher prescription costs that alone would not even remotely be paid for with a 15 or 20 dollar per month increase in benefits. Plus, the verdict is still out on Part B increases. No doubt that further analysis is needed.
Oct 19, 2015 09:35:36 #
DaveO wrote:
The cost of living index says no raises this year, does that mean no raise for Congress? :roll:
Yes, Congress will get a raise because they use a different formula to get their 3% raise every year, but they are so poor, you know they need that raise.
Shame on them, that's one of the reasons people are going for people such as Donald Trump for President.
Trump said he would not take any pay if he is elected President.
Oct 19, 2015 09:47:31 #
Jerry pointed out that Congress has v**ed to not take the raise since 2009. As far as Trump is concerned........
Oct 19, 2015 09:49:02 #
DaveO wrote:
Oil prices are largely responsible for the computation. It is a foregone conclusion that many older retirees hardly benefit from this decrease, but instead are facing higher healthcare costs. I know of people in their later years that are already facing higher prescription costs that alone would not even remotely be paid for with a 15 or 20 dollar per month increase in benefits. Plus, the verdict is still out on Part B increases. No doubt that further analysis is needed.
Obama was thinking of raising the Part B Medicare to $159.30 a month from $104.90 a month.
I keep stressing that someone has to keep these i*****l i*******ts on entitlement Welfare/Medicaid, I guess it is our, (Social Security recipients), tern this year. Next year Obama may raise the FICA tax on working individuals to help keep these i*****l i*******ts; someone has to keep paying, nothing is free.
If Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton gets elected, it will be more of the same policy as Obama is doing.
Oct 19, 2015 09:56:49 #
A. J. wrote:
Obama was thinking of raising the Part B Medicare ... (show quote)
Not true. Obama and Congress must act to prevent the increase.
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/10/07/Millions-Facing-Hefty-Increase-Medicare-Premiums-2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/us/congress-and-obama-administration-seek-ways-to-limit-increase-in-medicare-premiums.html?_r=0
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