Right on!

No LEFT turns here!!!! LOL!!!

Thanks for the reminder!!

Hi AW2....welcome!!!! Great to see you here!

Add inflation into the mix and you get your "death panels"!!!
Consider most seniors live on a fixed income. Those who have rightfully saved for their future have a set amount of money that they calculated they need to live. Lets say for the sake of easy math and arguement that the average Sr. lives off of $1000 a month. Since Apr of 2008 to Apr 2009 the Federal Reserve doubled the money supply, cutting the purchase power of that money in half. Now in reality the Sr. that expected to live on $1K a month now only has the purchase pwoer of $500. Couple this with the increase in all other cost (due also to inflation) and the problem is vastly compounded. If you want our Seniors to live out the rest of their life as they planned it we need to stop the agency of inflation, the Federal Reserve. End the Fed, support HR 1207.

"the Silence of friends." Speak up, while you still have a voice!

Amen on speaking up!!!! We all need to get involved and take back our government!

If this new healthcare passes, we will not have to worry about making ends meet!
If we are no longer working and paying taxes then we will no longer be in need of health care. Just dry up and blow away.....go away....is what they want!

Thanks for stopping by and sharing that cup of coffee!!!!!

and congress gave themselves a raise of course! is it 2010 yet??

Social Security checks have gone up automatically every year since 1975, when the first automatic cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) took effect. Prior to that, a separate act of Congress was required to grant any adjustment to compensate for inflation. But this January, there won%u2019t be any COLA, for the first time in the 35 years the system has been in operation. The reason is simple: The official measure of the cost of living has gone down, not up. And the major reason for that is that oil prices plunged from the peaks of the previous year. It%u2019s a reversal of what happened last year, when soaring fuel prices pushed the cost of living measure sharply upward, producing the 5.8 percent COLA increase that went into effect last January. That was the largest increase since 1982. That came about because, by law, the COLA is determined by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), which is tabulated by the career professionals at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. And from the third quarter of 2007 to the third quarter of 2008 (the period determined by law) the CPI-W went up 5.8 percent.
But now things are different. The CPI-W peaked a year ago, just before the 5.8 percent increase was calculated, and took a nose dive in the months that followed. Quarterly figures won%u2019t be available until October, but based on monthly figures, the CPI-W now stands 1.9 percent below where it was 12 months before. If Congress had simply pegged the COLA to the CPI-W, that would mean Social Security benefits would have to be reduced in January by somewhere around 2 percent, depending on what the final quarterly figures turn out to be. However, the 1972 law that set up the COLA specifies that benefits can%u2019t be reduced. So it is a certainty that when the Social Security Administration announces next month what the COLA will be for January, it will be zero. And that%u2019s not all. There will be no COLA for January of the following year, either, unless the CPI-W rises.....it is insanity for our seniors!

And you are so right, Bev, congress will NEVER go without their raises!!!!

Sent this out...it's right on!

Thanks, Helen!!! We all have been trying to get the word out!!!