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In reply to the discussion: Is this a joke: 20 years? [View all]tiredtoo
(2,949 posts)39. Some discussion here about how small the benefit cuts are.
Well, my most recent increase in SS was immediately used up to pay additional insurance premiums and increased cost of prescriptions. We do not want any cuts we want an increase in cola !
Actually the increase in insurance premiums and prescription drug premiums are greater then the increase in SS. This leaves me with less money for Oreos and other important items. Damn, this sucks !
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And to add to the pain of this many of us have lost our company retirement accounts, if we
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#2
Well I'll surely be dead by then, I just hope it's by natural causes and not starvation..n/t
monmouth3
Dec 2012
#3
Let's just make this easy, kill off all those ready to qualify for their SS "benefit". All the l%
mother earth
Dec 2012
#5
Exactly. If you can't make profits for the master, you worth is zero...the new slavery.
mother earth
Dec 2012
#17
It's called debt bondage. Nothing new, but it did go out of fashion here for about 150 years.
geckosfeet
Dec 2012
#43
In 2014, Tea Party 2 privatizes Social Security! And our dreams will come true!
freshwest
Dec 2012
#14
Obama's "compromise" is putting us on the road to privatization of everything.
JDPriestly
Dec 2012
#49
Lack of involvement on the state level by people who don't want that, is doing it.
freshwest
Dec 2012
#52
The elephant in the room: WHY have the CPI in the deal AT ALL? Whether it's large or small. nt
Honeycombe8
Dec 2012
#9
You think they don't know that? This is their way of stealing those copper pennies off
Autumn
Dec 2012
#21