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Showing Original Post only (View all)Peas for old folks: Three months of meals, disappeared each year. Hunger. [View all]
For an 80-year-old woman, the "chained CPI" will reduce her earned benefits by one week's food per month, for someone already living on the edge. Three months of meals gone each year.
All because the Predator Class wants more planes, yachts, houses, and other shit.
That's sick, the stuff of sociopathy.
So tell Obama and his two good friends (pictured frolicking in my sig) to go take a flying fuck at the Moon. We cannot let the elderly starve so Romney can buy more car elevators.
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Peas for old folks: Three months of meals, disappeared each year. Hunger. [View all]
MannyGoldstein
Apr 2013
OP
No he won't. He'll be rewarded for this choice. Bank on it, he certainly is.
SammyWinstonJack
Apr 2013
#31
I will certainly never be bullied into voting against my better judgement again, ever.
Mnemosyne
Apr 2013
#4
And that's a substitution (pebbles for peas), so it doesn't indicate a rise in the CPI anymore.
dawg
Apr 2013
#48
Why, exactly, does he have "no choice but to negotiate with" Teabaggers?
AnotherMcIntosh
Apr 2013
#19
Truth is.... they can already afford to buy all the planes and yachts and houses they want...
world wide wally
Apr 2013
#16
worse-- they want to pauperize the middle class to have more people to look down on
carolinayellowdog
Apr 2013
#52
Vague, capricious, arbitrary and unspecified promises of "protections" are unacceptable.
bvar22
Apr 2013
#24
The pissy trivial amount of extra income for the lowest quintile of beneficiaries--
eridani
Apr 2013
#33
The people who will be 'protected' are already going without proper food and medicines because
Bluenorthwest
Apr 2013
#42
One of the nice things about Senator Durbin is that if you are a constituent, he'll write back.
AnotherMcIntosh
Apr 2013
#21
It wasn't too long ago when Pelosi was saying the planned chained-CPI wasn't a cut.
AnotherMcIntosh
Apr 2013
#38
On the Catfood Commission, Durbin voted to eventually reduce the average SS benefit by 22%
MannyGoldstein
Apr 2013
#29
His more-accurate argument is, for me, a new one. Of course, he's not running for re-election.
AnotherMcIntosh
Apr 2013
#37
Presumably you've already asked the sonofabitch what the insulin substitute is supposed to be? n/t
eridani
Apr 2013
#35
No, but that's a good question. I wonder. If a person eats less, do they require less insulin?
AnotherMcIntosh
Apr 2013
#36
Those two gentlemen pictured with our president can go take a flying fuck at the
indepat
Apr 2013
#43