WOW!!! I'm Going To Get $250

[Snag]

This is to good to be true.

Don't worry about the law or how things are suppose to work. BO will just give you money if he thinks it is needed.

$250 for the whole year!! You do the math. That really goes along way doesn't it?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091015/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_social_security_obama

[boxcar]

This is to good to be true.

Don't worry about the law or how things are suppose to work. BO will just give you money if he thinks it is needed.

$250 for the whole year!! You do the math. That really goes along way doesn't it?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091015/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_social_security_obama

That $20.83 per month will surely go a looooong way. I betcha most seniors won't know where to begin to spend that windfall. :rolleyes:

Boxcar

[ddog]

Pls mail it back since it is of no import to you.

your nation thanks you for your concern.

We won't be waiting by the post. :sleeping:

[Warren Henry]

Meant to offset the lack of increase in SS due to negative inflation.

If there was no inflation, then there shouldn't be an increase in SS. Nor should there be any kind of bribe, lollipop, or whatever given in its place.

Just another 13 Billion down the rat hole. No problem, just print more.

Any excuse to further ruin the country.

If my wife and I get this payment, I promise to blow it on a horse ;)

[JustRalph]

Meant to offset the lack of increase in SS due to negative inflation.

If there was no inflation, then there shouldn't be an increase in SS. Nor should there be any kind of bribe, lollipop, or whatever given in its place.

Just another 13 Billion down the rat hole. No problem, just print more.

Any excuse to further ruin the country.

If my wife and I get this payment, I promise to blow it on a horse ;)

Better than that...........buy a couple memberships to the Rush Limbaugh site

Or Maybe 20 or 30 copies of Sarah Palin's book............and hand them out

Or how about sending the money to the Sarah PAC or Fred Thompson's PAC

the list goes on............ :ThmbUp:

[Tom]

Or buy a coffin to use when the Death Panels call your number.

[prospector]

lets see...congress gets what? 6% increase for expenses?
seniors get $250 for a year...
better idea, cancel the 6% for congress, do a 25% reduction in all congressional staffs and give all seniors a 5% increase for the taxes coming from cap and trade...
works for me...

[Tom]

Great point - how can they justify an increase with no inflation?

This is the stuff that needs to be driven home at TH meetings, by whatever real press is left, by surly crowds of Us at THEIR homes, in their driveways, following their kids to school, their wives to work.

Time get in their faces and make it persona and include their families. THEIR polices affect our families, so I hereby declare their wives and kids fair game. Whatever it takes.

[cj's dad]

No SS increase but an amount ($250) that very closely equals what the increase would have been; BO (er, Robin Hood) to the rescue.

Maybe he should symbolically deliver a check to someone's grandmother while he rides into town on a white horse.

[mostpost]

I won't send it back, but I would rather it were targeted to seniors who are in need. My Post Office pension plus Social Security are sufficient without the $250. I know there are many seniors who are living on just Social Security. They could use the extra money, I'm sure.
Yes, I know that I will be the one who pays for it in the end.

[Tom]

No SS increase but an amount ($250) that very closely equals what the increase would have been; BO (er, Robin Hood) to the rescue.

Maybe he should symbolically deliver a check to someone's grandmother while he rides into town on a white horse.

Yeah, he could hand her the check and pull her plug with the other hand!

[Pell Mell]

What good is the COL increase anyway? They raise the part-B payment and if you live in senior housing, as a lot of my friends do, they increase the rent so they end up with 2 bucks more a month. Just enough to play a DD!:lol:

[sandpit]

Better than that...........buy a couple memberships to the Rush Limbaugh site

Or Maybe 20 or 30 copies of Sarah Palin's book............and hand them out

Or how about sending the money to the Sarah PAC or Fred Thompson's PAC

the list goes on............ :ThmbUp:

Thompson might be worth a donation, but Palin doesn't need anybody buying a book she didn't even write. Just like Hillary Clinton, they both had ghost writers, but fail to credit them on the cover. Very deceitful and narcissistic (sp?), just like the President. Better off buying one of John McCain's books, who at least credits his ghosts writer on every occasion.

[Tom]

Why would anyone listen to McCain's ideas? :rolleyes:

[BenDiesel26]

I won't send it back, but I would rather it were targeted to seniors who are in need. My Post Office pension plus Social Security are sufficient without the $250. I know there are many seniors who are living on just Social Security. They could use the extra money, I'm sure.
Yes, I know that I will be the one who pays for it in the end.

All this time, I would have thought you were a lifetime postal employee. Where else did you work as to collect social security, or were you hired after 1984 or whatever the date was?

[hazzardm]

I won't send it back, but I would rather it were targeted to seniors who are in need. My Post Office pension plus Social Security are sufficient without the $250. I know there are many seniors who are living on just Social Security. They could use the extra money, I'm sure.
Yes, I know that I will be the one who pays for it in the end.

Many needy charities would gladly use it more effectively than the Feds.

[Steve 'StatMan']

I imageine plenty $250 shares will end up in the hands of the casinos. Hey, give us horseplayers a chance at it! ;)

[boxcar]

Pls mail it back since it is of no import to you.

your nation thanks you for your concern.

We won't be waiting by the post. :sleeping:

I can understand how you'd find a bone attractive, Doggie, -- even small ones.

Boxcar

[mostpost]

All this time, I would have thought you were a lifetime postal employee. Where else did you work as to collect social security, or were you hired after 1984 or whatever the date was?
I started with USPS in Oct. 1977 when I was 36. Before that I worked for Motorola, when they were still making televisions; for an insurance company in downtown Chicago (don't remember the name); for Morgan Sash and Door (They were a wholesaler which dealt with lumber yards and home improvemnent companies) and finally for a small millwork house, which is when I moved to the post office.
So I had enough quarters even before I was hired at the PO. I don't remember the exact year USPS switched retirement plans, but those who were with USPS prior to that time were given an option whether to join civil service or remain in FERS. For me, FERS made more sense. I contributed to both USPS retirement and to Social Security.

SO, despite what many here seem to think, I do know what it is like to hold down a real job. :D :D

[boxcar]

I started with USPS in Oct. 1977 when I was 36. Before that I worked for Motorola, when they were still making televisions; for an insurance company in downtown Chicago (don't remember the name); for Morgan Sash and Door (They were a wholesaler which dealt with lumber yards and home improvemnent companies) and finally for a small millwork house, which is when I moved to the post office.
So I had enough quarters even before I was hired at the PO. I don't remember the exact year USPS switched retirement plans, but those who were with USPS prior to that time were given an option whether to join civil service or remain in FERS. For me, FERS made more sense. I contributed to both USPS retirement and to Social Security.

SO, despite what many here seem to think, I do know what it is like to hold down a real job. :D :D

When did any federal position become a "real job"? Oh...did I hear you say, "when I joined the USPS? :lol: :lol:

Boxcar