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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
You are so full of shit that diarrhea is spewing out of your ears.
1) MOST of the federal budget is already spent on seniors vis a vis social security and medicare, so the idea that congress is spending trillions on this and that and nothing for seniors is flat out stupidity.
2) Seniors don't have to choose between food and medicine. Perhaps you missed it but 6 years ago Medicare part D was created, it covers prescription drugs for seniors.
3) Increases in social security are automatically calculated by a formula that was made law a long time ago. This year's congress or last year's congress has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not social security checks will go up next year.
4) Is it painful being so stupid? Or is ignorance truly bliss?
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You are correct...in that SS an Medicare is a major portion of the Federal budget.
I am also fully aware that Medicare will now pay for most prescription drugs...but I am also fully aware that it does not pay for all drugs and/or in the dosages recommended by a doctor...so these additional costs are out of the pockets of the SS recipient...some of whom receive a few hundred dollars per month and would not even survive if it were not for food cupboards.
I am also aware that SS recipients have withheld from their SS checks a premium for Medicare coverage and as I stated the premium for the prescription drug program is going up.
I am aware that a formula is used to calculate what the COLA amount should be if a COLA is to be allowel and I am aware that a COLA can be denied.
I also am aware that next year...once again...the aged that already receive very little in SS payments...will once again have to tighten their purse strings...and make decisions between food and medicine...staying cool or suffering with the heat...staying warm or suffering with the cold etc. etc. etc.
Is it painful for you being so stupid? Or is ignorance truly bliss?