Say NO to a "cat food Christmas"

[JDPriestly]

3. This is neither a joke nor an exaggeration.

In London in the early 1970s, the elderly woman in front of me was buying catfood.

The cashier taking her money looked very concerned when it came to my turn. She turned to me and whispered as the elderly woman left the store, "That's for her. She eats that." (not her exact words). I looked at her and asked if she was joking. Dead serious, she said, "No. She eats that."

That is really where we are headed.

Some Social Security recipients only receive a few hundred dollars a month and have no other income than food stamps, reduced price meals at the Senior Citizens' Center and Medicare/Medicaid.

Obama will promise to adjust the chained CPI to protect the most vulnerable. But he will not always be in office. This is not the first change to the method for calculating cost of living increases for Social Security. If we allow our government to go ahead with this one, it surely will not be the last.

The Republicans are chiseling away at the incomes of the middle and working classes. The attacks on the pensions of public servants and on Social Security and Medicare are just the front attacks. They will back this up with even more draconian cuts on everyone.

They are sadistic and cruel and will impoverish and demoralize the poor and elderly first and then attack the incomes of everyone else. A guy like Boehner does this for thrills and profit.

He didn't say anything about the deficit until a Democrat was in the White House. He is a hypocrite.