Obama wants to cuts Seniors while he gives raises to his cronies!

[Christians4LessGvt]

While Obama proposes a decrease in Cost of Living Adjustment for Seniors,
look what he is doing for his "connected" cronies at the White House!

[Xavier_Onassis]

The President did not ever say that he wanted to cut seniors, and he has not done so.
If there are cuts, it will be because of a refusal of the imbecilic teabaggers to remove loopholes and restore the Juniorbush tax cuts.

[Christians4LessGvt]

The President did not ever say that he wanted to cut seniors, and he has not done so.

Do you even read?
I said Obama has proposed cuts to Cost of Living adjutments to seniors.
Which in fact he has done.
While he is giving big raises to his white house cronies!
There was no cost of living increase in 2010 for the first time since 1975.
But yet Obama can hand out all the raises to his political cronies at the White House.
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/RetirementandWills/RetireInStyle/social-securitys-new-math-who-loses.aspx

it will be because of a refusal of the imbecilic teabaggers

Yeah it's always somebody else's fault.
Bush fault.
Tea Party fault.
You are delusional.

[Plane]

Clinton reduced COLA by about one percent , but he isn't remembered for it.

This may be the third rail but whether the politicians get a shock or not seems to depend on the carefull verbage.

[Xavier_Onassis]

There is a formula set by Congress long ago for determining COLA increases. There have been none recently because the pre-established inflationary figures were not met. Obama did not change this. The fact that there was no increase was according to the formula, which has nothing to do with anything Obama has done.

I do not consider a lack of a COLA increase to be a "cut". A "cut" would be a DECREASE in what I actually pay, not a lack of an increase.


I fail to see why this should be related in any way to the salaries of these temporary people in the government, This sounds like right wing crap to me, and that would be because it is right wing crap. Supposedly the government needs to pay salaries that are comparable with what the same skill set would require in a non government job. Washington DC is a hideously expensive place to live, and always has been.

[BT]

Why do we have a director of african-american media and why did they get a 36k raise?

42k to 78k seems extravagant.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Perhaps his responsibilities have changed. Without a job description is really is not possible to judge.

I fail to see how this is related to Social Security in any conceivable way. Give every SS recipient one dollar and it would be vastly more.

[BT]

ss  is paid from the same fund as executive branch salaries. Why cost cuttings on one side and extravagance on the other?

[Kramer]

I think Obama, as president, breaks yet another record this week for the most kids on food stamps too. Something Michelle can be proud of.

[Christians4LessGvt]

There is a formula set by Congress long ago for determining COLA increases.
There have been none recently because the pre-established inflationary figures
were not met. Obama did not change this. The fact that there was no increase
was according to the formula, which has nothing to do with anything Obama has done.

Yeah sure....lets pretend it's real classy giving huge raises to White House cronies
while the rest of the country suffers thru a near depression.

[Xavier_Onassis]

The original post is a typical right wing attack on Obama. Raises in the WH are determined by the administration. COLA increases for SS recipients are determined by a previously written formula. These are entirely unrelated. The purpose of giving raises to Administration people is to hire qualified people who must live in the DC area, which is extremely expensive. It is not doen to be, as you claim, "classy".

This is just another propaganda blurb of no significance.

[Christians4LessGvt]

XO.....you can spin it anyway you like, but the fact
remains Obama proposed cuts in Social Security while
he gives big fat raises to his cronies in the White House.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/07/06/20110706obama-federal-debt-talks-cuts.html#ixzz1RphoFCgM

[Xavier_Onassis]

He did not define the sort of cuts that would be made, and they would be conditional on Republicans RAISING taxes and eliminating loopholes. Grover Norquist would have to bend over and be violated egregiously for this to take place.

And again, these are UNRELATED entirely. Just crappy propaganda.

[Christians4LessGvt]

And again, these are UNRELATED entirely.

They are related in the fact that while Obama proposes cuts to
Social Security he gives cronies in the White House big fat raises.