Cuellar’s Pathetic Explanation for No Social Security Increases in 2011

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"I am referring to the top 2% who can surely afford an increase in their tax rate."

You sound like a loyal Obama socialist, there Comrade Dralla. As Obama ... Read More 

"I am referring to the top 2% who can surely afford an increase in their tax rate."

You sound like a loyal Obama socialist, there Comrade Dralla. As Obama has said, some folks have made enough money, right?

Who the hell is he or you to say how much money a person should be allowed to earn and why should they pay more just because they have some left over after the 15th of April???!!! Last I checked, we still go by the Constitution, not the Communist Manifesto... despite the best efforts of commie Bernie Sanders.

"Wasn't the tax rate in the 90% range under Eisenhower?"

Yeah, and there was a freaking World War to be paid for too, Comrade. Remember that one? But, it was wrong then just as it would be wrong now. Since you are such a history buff, perhaps you will also recall this memorable quote from the noted socialist, Karl Marx:

"From each according to his means, to each according to his needs."

It's classic socialist class envy politics. Make the other guy pay for my needs simply because he has made too much money, according to me. Goes right the most base human nature of greed and envy.

Charity comes from the heart. Anything else comes from the barrel of a gun.

 

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Bryan Underwood for Congress. Get Cuellar OUT!

 

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Hmm so people understand that cola law is 35 years old and understand why there is no increase ok cool.

I guess we're supposed to be angry about the way the news was ... Read More 

Hmm so people understand that cola law is 35 years old and understand why there is no increase ok cool.

I guess we're supposed to be angry about the way the news was announced? Noone likes spending and people understand how cola is calculated and that it's been done this way since 1975.

I'm missing why we'd be angry at cuellar due to cola.

I guess Bryan Underwood would change the law and spend the money we don't have? Is that the message?

Go Bryan spend that money...???? Weird just weird

 

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Jim,
I do understand and accept the calculation method to establish the COLA. My comment was addressing the specific comments made by Bob Pritts. For example, "Hello, ... Read More 

Jim,
I do understand and accept the calculation method to establish the COLA. My comment was addressing the specific comments made by Bob Pritts. For example, "Hello, Henry. Why didn’t you do something about it? You are in U.S. Congress!" and, "That’s enough to make you puke but unfortunately is a liberal Democrat’s view of logic … just lie or mislead to save your butt at all cost."
I have not followed the progress of Senator Sanders amendment, but I did come across this a few minutes ago,
"Sanders said the estimated $13 billion cost of the help for seniors struggling to pay rising health care and prescription drug costs is only a fraction of the $70 billion in annual tax breaks that Senate Republicans are pushing for the wealthiest Americans."

"During these very difficult economic times many seniors and disabled veterans are spending a lot of their limited incomes on rising health care and prescription drugs costs. They need help.” Sanders said. “It makes a lot more sense to me to protect some of the most vulnerable people in our country with the equivalent of a COLA than it does to give huge tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires. I very much hope that the Republicans will not, filibuster this proposal” he added."
"In addition to the White House backing for Sanders proposal, AARP, the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion were among the organizations that backed his amendment earlier this year."

So, Specifically addressing Bob Pritts, Congress is attempting, through Senator Sanders and Rep. Pomeroy D-N.D. "Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., chairman of the Ways and Means subcommittee on Social Security, has introduced a new bill to provide $250 payments to seniors, if there is no increase in Social Security. Maybe, he said, there will be more of an appetite in Congress to pass it after lawmakers hear from voters in November.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/11/no-boost-for-social-security-checks-in-2011/#ixzz12D1tK5kn, to try and pass a second time, after the elections, a COLA amendment.

I do not know how Rep. Cuellar voted. I would be curious to know if he voted against it.

I hope you did not think that I was referring to the top 40% of wage earners who make up the backbone of our great nation. I am referring to the top 2% who can surely afford an increase in their tax rate. Wasn't the tax rate in the 90% range under Eisenhower?

 

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So do you want cola increase or not? Spend or not?

 

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John, You seem confused and erratic. Congress is controlled by Democrats. 12 Dems plus Liebermann decided to stop the proposal. It's not a suprise Republicans voted against ... Read More 

John, You seem confused and erratic. Congress is controlled by Democrats. 12 Dems plus Liebermann decided to stop the proposal. It's not a suprise Republicans voted against a Sanders. The man describes himself as a Socialist. The reason you are not getting a COLA increase is you were over paid in 2009. It's in the story you referenced. Did you not read the whole article? It also has to do with the way the law works. "From August 2009 through August 2010, the most recent data we have available, the Consumer Price Index for Urban Workers (the CPI-W) rose by 1.4 percent. Social Security uses the CPI-W to calculate COLAs, so how can there be no COLA scheduled for next year?
The reason is that in the prior year--August 2008 through August 2009--the CPI dropped by 2 percent. But since the Social Security law doesn’t allow for a negative COLA, beneficiaries simply received a zero COLA for 2010. In effect, this means that the purchasing power of their benefits rose by around 2 percent. To make up for that, Social Security will continue to pay zero COLAs until the CPI catches up to its previous level."( http://blog.american.com/?p=20907)

I would not call allowing people to keep the money they earn a tax benefit. The top 40% of Wage Earners Pay 86% of Federal Income Taxes in America and 47% of Americans pay no Federal income taxes at all. The free ride is over.

 

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Did anyone check out that Vikings game last night? Crazy.

I was sad to read the numerous complaints about the peanut fest the weather was nice.

That guy Bryan Underwood ... Read More 

Did anyone check out that Vikings game last night? Crazy.

I was sad to read the numerous complaints about the peanut fest the weather was nice.

That guy Bryan Underwood looks like he has one of those mustaches like lech wolesa had. At least Christine O'Donnell brings the hotness

 

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Very bizarre article. Not real sure if Bob thinks we should have a cola increase or not. Clearly he commands you to vote for some other guy but doesn't say why. Most bizarre.

If ... Read More 

Very bizarre article. Not real sure if Bob thinks we should have a cola increase or not. Clearly he commands you to vote for some other guy but doesn't say why. Most bizarre.

If Bob's taken to moonshine he should share

 

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Bob, I am a senior of social security. I was disappointed to read on Sunday that there would not be a COLA in 2011. However, when I read this article, on Sunday, by the ... Read More 

Bob, I am a senior of social security. I was disappointed to read on Sunday that there would not be a COLA in 2011. However, when I read this article, on Sunday, by the Associated Press, "Govt: No call for Social Security increase in 2011," I read the following: "Social Security recipients got a one-time bonus payment of $250 in the spring of 2009 as part of the government's massive economic recovery package. President Barack Obama lobbied for another one last fall when it became clear seniors wouldn't get an increase in monthly benefit payments in 2010." It also states, "Congress took up the issue, but a proposal by Sen. Bernie Sanders died when 12 Democrats and independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut joined Senate Republicans to block it. Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine was the only Republican to support the second bonus payment." Did the Associated Press get it wrong?Do you have better information? Why does the Republican Congress have such a hard time with this COLA and yet wants to keep a tax benefit for the wealthiest Americans?