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Cleita

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1. Just my personal problem with this as I posted elsewhere:

Reply to berni_mccoy (Original post)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 01:34 PM

Dec 2012

Social Security and Medicare have 0 to do with the deficit. As a senior I don't know how I will do with less. In the last three years I finally got a COLA of twenty five dollars. My actual COLA has tripled in the last three years where food, gas and insurance is concerned. The only thing that hasn't gone up is my rent because I live on family property and they haven't raised it on me although they could get twice as much rent as I pay them. Right now I have to go to the store and I will have to pay with a credit card because my SS is a week away and I have no money left in the bank. I'm almost 73 years old. I don't know how I will be able to survive if I live to be eighty with this plan. I'm quite willing to work but no one will give me a job these days because they are overflowing with younger applicants. I'm fortunate that I'm in good health, but what if I need assisted living in the future, how will that work out?

I don't know how this will affect seniors as a demographic, but this is how it will affect me personally.

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I don't think SS should be cut at all... HOWEVER [View all] berni_mccoy Dec 2012 OP

Just my personal problem with this as I posted elsewhere: Cleita Dec 2012 #1

It will affect me the same as you. RebelOne Dec 2012 #5

You're correct, SS has nothing to do with the defecit and the GOP rustydog Dec 2012 #10

Chained-CPI reduces COLAs by 10%. So in the long-run, SS benefits will be 10% lower. reformist2 Dec 2012 #2

The BLS Calculated 3% over a 10 year period. Where do you get 10% from? berni_mccoy Dec 2012 #3

HERE'S THE MATH. reformist2 Dec 2012 #8

That is Horrible Math. berni_mccoy Dec 2012 #14

Sorry, I meant to say thirty years in both cases. The numbers are correct now. reformist2 Dec 2012 #17

People are up in arms over 0.3%? I know people that have worked 10 years without one raise. nt Comrade_McKenzie Dec 2012 #4

And that is very wrong too. Cleita Dec 2012 #22

SS has nothing to do with the deficit. Nothing. Autumn Dec 2012 #6

I agree, but we should refrain from hyperbole over such a minuscule number. nt Comrade_McKenzie Dec 2012 #9

I don't give a fuck it it turns out to be 10 cents cut from a SS check Autumn Dec 2012 #11

It's not about the deficit. That will be directly returned to SS payments of current workers. berni_mccoy Dec 2012 #15

Social Security should not be a part of these talks Autumn Dec 2012 #18

We don't need lower revenue on paychecks. We need higher paychecks so that the Cleita Dec 2012 #23

Why is SS on the table in discussions about something it had nothing to do with?? sabrina 1 Dec 2012 #7

+1000. If the Republicans asked for us to subsidize hookers for them, would that be on the table? gkhouston Dec 2012 #20

But you know... Bluenorthwest Dec 2012 #12

As I said, I don't think SS should be impacted. berni_mccoy Dec 2012 #16

What ever happened to the littlemissmartypants Dec 2012 #13

this should be in the discussions at all which is why everyone is and should be pissed off No Compromise Dec 2012 #19

If we fold on this, they will keep chipping away until we are back to 1932. Cleita Dec 2012 #21

sorry, that is NOT what I'm reading. cali Dec 2012 #24