Don’t Count on Future Social Security Increases

COLA

I have not heard why we are not getting an increase, and who is orchestrating this.

Elisabeth Anderson of NY @ Aug 25, 2009 19:31:50 PM

no cola on future social security

Unfortunitaly I helped elect obama,...I never voted a straight republican or demorcratic ticket in my life,..at this point I'm totally FED UP WITH ALL POLTICANS !!!!!! The Bush Regime ruined this country beginning with the Patroit Act,..now everything is systamatically being taken from us by ALL POLITICANS !!! Whatever rights,monies,benifits we have left,..it's just a matter of time,..going back to Regan,(and probably before him)ALL U.S. PRESIDENTS HAVE BEEN ROBBING SOCIAL SECURITY TO PAY DOWN THE NATIONAL DEBT ,LET'S NOT FORGET "STOP LOSS" whereby any military personel can not get out of the military when thier time is offically "UP",.. NO, they are made to do non ending "tours of duty" unless of course they come back in a body bag,...WHAT THE HELL HAS HAPPENED TO THIS COUNTRY ????!!!!AS far as I'm concerned,..it doesn't matter whether or not you vote, this country is on a down hill slide that I personally don't ever see us coming out of,...so bend over and kiss your posterior GOODBYE !!!

m. p. malan of CA @ Aug 01, 2009 19:24:07 PM

No COLA in 2010-2012; Conjecture or Presidential Decision

I recently heard that President Obama made the comment "don't plan on any cost of living allowance" for Social Security recipients next year -

Is that because there's is no cost of living increase projected ? I find that difficult to comprehend - virtually every single item I purchase at the grocery store has increased in price every few months this year - and I believe we had more months of $ 4.00 gasoline than we have had $ 2.50 a gallon gas -

-OR- has our President found a way to discontinue the SS COLA - If YES, then it's my viewpoint that high-ranking government employees - President Obama included, should be social security recipients along with the rest of us american citizens - and while we're at it - they should also be required to participate in whatever provider care requirements are imposed upon us in the health care reform bill that the President is trying to cram down our throats.

I guess all the time President Obama lived and worked in Chicago, he never heard the likes of Milton Friedman, a renowned professor of economics at the University Of Chicago - or studied his methodologies - FREE ENTERPRISE - a dollar earned by an employee in the private sector will improve the revenue of 20 or more other private sector enterprises - in case he doesn't get it - i get my paycheck - then I spend it at the grocery store, the gas pump, barber shop, pay my mortgage (oops some of those financial institutions aare now government owned) - would appreciate feedback if revisions to COLA are voted upon by congress

Robert White of TX @ Jul 27, 2009 16:31:39 PM

Obama and Social Security

How can Obama withhold our SS annual increases without the approval of Congress?

B Niemann of TX @ Jul 25, 2009 09:39:53 AM

Suprising? Not from MY EXPERIENCE!!!

I am not suprised.

I worked from the time I was 10 years old, and yet all I get is bare boned short of $700 per month because government kept telling me I was not QUALIFIED, then after 8 years of fighting with the government I finally get a judge who tells SS that I should have qualified 8 years earlier.

Then I get a check and sign it and deposit it in the bank. No one told me that signing the ment I was agreeing that SS had now paid me everything I was owed and that I would not get anything else, but apparently that is how it is.

You see I get less than $700 per month because my so-called work-credits had expired in the meantime, so instead of getting my $1400.00 per month I get HALF of what I am supposed to be getting... and I keep falling further and further behind.

I lost my home and even ended up behind bars, not because I am a criminal but because the government is the criminal!

What precisely was I paying into since I was TEN YEARS OLD???

Apparently NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Paul of MN @ Jul 19, 2009 03:37:48 AM

COLA increases for Social Security Recipients

I am retired on Social Security Diasbility and have no retirement monies put aside because I had to use them to support myself and my wife and daughter after I was severely injured and had to fight Workmens Compensation for benefits. Everything but My income which I paid for for 35 years of work is now in the hans of our so called "REPRESENATIVES" in Washington. God help us because most of us will have to do the unthinakable and declare bankruptcy and lose everything we have worked all our lives for. P.S. Congress and Senate this alternative will only incresae the banking and real estate problems. Why don't you use you heads and make the wealthy and the cash laden businesses put up or shut up.

Douglas Smith of MD @ Jul 17, 2009 18:45:33 PM

Pathetic

Well, what do you expect when you elect an affirmative action Marxist/Socialist/Communist who hides his birth certificate and school records and has so little valuation on life that his first act as POTUS is to sign the bill sending our money overseas for abortions????? If you think no cost of living increase is bad, wait until the nat'l health care act becomes law and you're moved to the back of the line for life-saving transplants so that those illegals get them instead of you! The fools who elected this horrible, horrible "man" are as horrible as he is.

I'm afraid our country is gone. Oh, and don't forget the cap and trade bill. Prepare yourselves for $600 utility bills. It won't stop and it won't end. These people got their foot in the door. As Ronald Reagan once said, "...a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth."

Nancy Tannenbaum of TX @ Jul 16, 2009 15:06:23 PM

SS

Aren't we happy we put the democrats in power...now we reap our reward

george bourque of FL @ Jun 23, 2009 19:31:14 PM