Daryl Hunt
Your Worst Nightmare
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You are an asshole-learn how things work. Social security is based on the per cent growth of urban manufacturing wages, which did not grow under Obama since he killed manufacturing. Trump brought it back and we got cost of living raises due to THAT. Has nothing to do with the rich. And if you call a man a liar, be ready to rumble-I don't take that shit from anybody.Can't blame that on Trump-we had no COLA's under Obama and just started under Trump.I just got the news. My rent and part of my Utilities are going up another 30 bucks as of the first of the year. Meanwhile, my heating bill has been going up slowly. My Insurance for my vehicle has gone up. Food prices have gone up and continue to rise. All in all, the total adjustment will be in the excess of over 100 bucks. And then it also bumps me into a higher tax bracket as well.
That means that the COLA of 48 bucks a month doesn't cover the increases once again. Okay, I can afford it. But let's look at the ones on just SSI.
With the Rent and Utilities going up that 30 bucks for a total of 405 bucks for a long term RV Space the size of a postage stamp, versus a 1200 buck SSI check max down to 667 bucks on the low side, add in the other costs, where does that leave the people unable to work due to age and injuries. These people paid into SSI and Medicare their whole adult lives. And they are finding out the programs they were depending on are either being short changed or cut out completely. Now they are being told that they are freeloaders and shunned by one group of people. Guess what, most of these people did the shunning themselves. The Food Banks, Free Lunch Programs, used clothing programs and more from the community is drying up slowly.
There are many "Welfare" programs that they can utilize including housing but those are on the chopping blocks as well. You won't see them on here complaining about it. They can't afford a computer, much less internet access. Most only use throw away 19.95 phones with no internet access. Their life is difficult to say the least. But some want to make it even worse and are in the process of doing just that.
I have been slipping for a couple decades from Middle Class to lower middle class with no change in my financial status. But these folks have gone from poor to poverty with no change in their financial status.
Can you lie more. Here is the Cola during the Obama and Rump years to date. The Cola rate for 2009 was actually from Bush Jr. The 2017 rate was from Obama. Congress has voted for many years to not accept their automatic Cola rate for themselves. But to say that COLA is the fault of any one President just shows how damned stupid you are. Cola is directly attached to the Growth. No Growth, no Cola. If the nation is in a recession, there is a negative growth, there will be a negative growth and a zero Cola allowance.
Okay, Rumpster, listen up. It's not the Cola that's the problem. It's the Rich People that are just grabbing a bigger piece of the pie with little or no regard to the average peoples lives. Yes, the "Average" numbers show an increase but those numbers don't show the real story. When the Rich shows such a huge gain and the average person goes backward little by little, the average number will show an increase. And that is the number you keep harping about.
- January 2009 -- 5.8%
- January 2010 -- 0.0%
- January 2011 -- 0.0%
- January 2012 -- 3.6%
- January 2013 -- 1.7%
- January 2014 -- 1.5%
- January 2015 -- 1.7%
- January 2016 -- 0.0%
- January 2017 -- 0.3%
- January 2018 -- 2.0%
- January 2019 -- 2.8%
- January 2020 -- 1.6%
This isn't a Rump or Obama problem. It's a problem of our entire Government being bought, paid for and controlled by these rich people who show total disregard to America.
I didn't call you a liar then. But you have lived up to that title now. I proved that COLA, did in fact, happen under Obama and explained why it didn't happen in certain years and why. How it was linked to the growth. Why two of the years of the worst recession we had zero COLA. But it gets in the way of your BS Liar Rant. Sorry bout that, liar.