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jtuck004

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38. We are already being screwed. The inflation factor they are talking about doesn't include food or

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 01:18 PM

Dec 2012

gas which add a lot to expenses. The CPI for Seniors would account for that.

Instead we talk about cpi, and forget TPTB start out stiffing us by ignoring that.

Kinda like they hide unemployment figures to make them look lower. People get used to less, they don't feel like they are missing so much. Later, when they take more, it doesn't feel like such a big cut.

Mr. Charlie is a slick one...

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Here's what 12 years of chained-CPI would have done to a typical SS benefit. (Graph included.) [View all] reformist2 Dec 2012 OP

How do "we" nix it if that's what Obama proposes it, Dems back him up, and the Repugs jump on it? MotherPetrie Dec 2012 #1

Can't we get 40 Dem senators (+ Bernie) to filibuster this??? reformist2 Dec 2012 #4

Our main hope Mr.Bill Dec 2012 #6

By 2032 the economy will look a lot different and we don't really know how. kelliekat44 Dec 2012 #43

Too late to nix it. Obama put it on the table. It will not be taken back now. RomneyLies Dec 2012 #2

Not really quaker bill Dec 2012 #11

Well, it's not a given. Obama can say, nope, new congress, new negotiation. cui bono Dec 2012 #14

Yes, I believe that is correct! drynberg Dec 2012 #42

There you go nineteen50 Dec 2012 #21

But that ain't no benefit cut, no sir! aquart Dec 2012 #3

That's right. progressoid Dec 2012 #9

For some people that's the difference between Mr.Bill Dec 2012 #5

Yep. This is scary stuff. Imagine a senior trying to live on $800 a month today. reformist2 Dec 2012 #13

My wife is a retired RN who has been at times a Home Health nurse and a Hospice nurse. Mr.Bill Dec 2012 #16

You are exactly right humbled_opinion Dec 2012 #20

I'm already breaking my pills in half pscot Dec 2012 #17

You would soon have no pills to break in half Mr.Bill Dec 2012 #19

Or the difference between chicken and cat food. n/t Stonepounder Dec 2012 #39

eliminate congressional pensions Angry Dragon Dec 2012 #7

Thank you. It was a meme for a while on Facebook - truedelphi Dec 2012 #25

This message was self-deleted by its author CaliforniaPeggy Dec 2012 #8

Question ... 1StrongBlackMan Dec 2012 #10

first off they are not raises. aandegoons Dec 2012 #12

You got a pay cut the day you your boss said all the dollars YOU earn belong to him or her. jtuck004 Dec 2012 #37

Sorry, but all that's left to say is what a bunch of assholes. cui bono Dec 2012 #15

Kickety kick and kickin' agin'. Melinda Dec 2012 #18

I'm getting that same sick feeling..... lib2DaBone Dec 2012 #22

Politicians always do the same thing nineteen50 Dec 2012 #23

Anyone who says that they support the President for doing this, because the President is a truedelphi Dec 2012 #24

"Democrat" doesn't mean what it used to mean. RC Dec 2012 #26

Progressive Poverty: the longer you live, the poorer you become. Kip Humphrey Dec 2012 #27

That is so wrong... Harmony Blue Dec 2012 #32

And the CPI that they use now Curmudgeoness Dec 2012 #28

Of course for members of Congress...... NorthCarolina Dec 2012 #29

K & R !!! WillyT Dec 2012 #30

Good illustration jsr Dec 2012 #31

What I hate about the chained-CPI thing gollygee Dec 2012 #33

The whole idea is bogus - it's supposed to be a consumer price index, not a survivor price index. reformist2 Dec 2012 #35

And we're talking about people who haven't been having steak gollygee Dec 2012 #36

Where is the Medicare chart? And how about those tsuki Dec 2012 #34

We are already being screwed. The inflation factor they are talking about doesn't include food or jtuck004 Dec 2012 #38

When my parents retired they could manage. They made glinda Dec 2012 #41

This is ridiculous - tens of millions of people working every day, and everyone going forward jtuck004 Dec 2012 #46

This is sadly how it works for the majority of Americans after they retire. glinda Dec 2012 #48

Chain Chain Chain benld74 Dec 2012 #40

One thing about is if the 1% want it it is not good for the other 99% madokie Dec 2012 #44

Everything is so complicated bucolic_frolic Dec 2012 #45

K&R woo me with science Dec 2012 #47