Democrats and Republicans Support $250 Senior Stimulus

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I am on ssa only. Heating has gone up 17 per .housing 35.The only thing that has gone down is flat screen tv,s and every thing else has gone up.They vote for the rich and not the poor.My heating is going to get turned off .I am 75.

tom selmon of SC 11:30AM December 08, 2010

why do the disable get hurt so much. it goverment is doing to . all people pick on us what is ever we should do homeless loose our children comite sueiside if the govement has a heart we should get our money. just like everyone else we worked hard and we are esponsible for the money after it is our money and we want it now.is there any one else fell thisnwat?

mary of WI 8:40AM October 30, 2010

the internet needs to dump it's old out of date information

martin kerley of IL 1:05PM June 14, 2010

Maybe the Consumers' Price Index should be revised, since it no longer reflects reality. Perhaps the bozos who administer/evaluate the components of this Index can include Health Care, energy costs and food costs in the CPI. I can guarantee the Index would not be flat anytime in this century!

smack-water-jack of CA 7:10PM June 12, 2010

every since the health plan started,every health bill IVE HAD HAS BEEN MORE,what was 5.00dollars is now 20.00,what was 100.00is now 250.00, I CAN'nt even afford a MrI, IT NOW cost me 400.00dollars which I DON't have,all my diabetic stuff I now have to pay for,at least a co-payment .I'm 82 tears old and was looking forward to maybe having the stimulus money to really be mine but you rich people took care of that. I LIVE with my oldest daughter whom has been out of work for two years now, she's 59 years old.I get 1238.00dollars ,I pay her housepayment and what other bills I can,we are on food stamps and if it were not for the LORD and others that help us we'd be homeless.I am so very thankful to THE lord THAT I belong to the LORD and pray daily for all who do not know him,if it wasn't for JESUS, WE;D BE IN DISPAIR.I no longer look to or trust the government and after all these years it's a very sad thing to say about our country.I love living here and feel so bad for others;who are so very much worse off than we are.I don't know why I'm even writing this but naybe some one some where will think of others.

Mildred Gravitt of MO 8:12PM June 07, 2010

I havve to agree with Sherry of AR. Every word strikes true. Congress and the Senate, along with all other government employees continue to give themselves raises while crying poverty in the Social Security Funds. This is crap. There is and has always been a fund called the Social Security Slush Fund. This money is spent on who knows what, but not on anyone collecting Social Security. They will deny it exists, but when I cornered them on the phone, the rep. I was talking to admitted it exists. But not for the public.
Indeed, all the prices are going up. Maybe the economy isn't because of all the jobs lost, but in order to keep businesses running, they have to raise the prices. And they have. I have noticed a 33 percent increase in just the cost of my food. And don't dare buy anything I don't have to buy. There's no money. I am currently at the bottom of the Social Security / SSI scale.

Denise Martin of MI 7:51PM June 01, 2010

I do not know why the goverment thinks they have the final say in what kind of money all of the United States americans who are on SS deserve to receive when they give their own raises and poor people like me and millions sit here and struggle terribly every month. I do not know what country they live in up there in Washington but to tell us americans on Disability, SS, or SSI that there was not a cost of living increase due to there not being a change in our economy but yet groceries, gas, and all bills have all risen. So my question is they live high off the hog while we poor people sit here and get less and less food, and can not afford to live comfortably. ALL of us on SSI or SS or SSDI suffer more each month with constant increases of prices on everything, I guess the GOvt. wants us to drown well they are getting their wish.

Sherry of AR 7:30AM May 28, 2010

WIDOWS AND WIDOWERS DON'T EVEN GET A TAX BREAK . TRYING TO STRUGGLE ON SS & SMALL RETIREMENT AND TAXED AS SINGLE. IT IS NOT OUR FAULT OUR SPOUSES HAVE PASSED AWAY. WE DESERVE A BREAK. VWE DON'T VEVEN GET A BREAK ON THE STIMULUS

JAN LOPEZ of NV 5:46PM May 19, 2010