Biden Admin responsible for SS Pay Increase.

[Pohemi]

Joe probably thinks he wrote a personal check.
Old folks often have scrambled memory's and say silly things, I just nod and smile, then offer them some ice cream.

Sounds like @Greenman needs some ice cream

The only issue I see here is that you're responding to a point I never made.
Sugar or waffle cone?

The only issue I see here is that you don't recall comments that YOU made, then try to put it on others being idiots? Nope, we see you, clown.

 

[Muse]

No, the SS pay increase is due to increased cost of living, which was not caused by the Biden Administration. Stop watching Fox News, it will rot what remains of your intelligence.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

I didn't say that Joe Biden has caused a global inflation crisis. He did however with his massive spending drive the inflation up in a huge way in the US.

What you're trying to convince everyone is that massive spending doesn't contribute to inflation? There a quite a few economist that will disagree with you.

Inflation is at a 40 year high because corporate profits are at a 70 year high.

 

[cytg111]

He coulda killed it couldnt he? Why shouldn’t pcgeek suffer inflation with the rest of you?

 

[Amol S.]

I would like to thank Joe and his minions for the increase in my wife and my Social Security of 8.7%. Also the same increase of my retired military pay of 8.7%.

LOL

MSN

www.msn.com

"Seniors are getting the biggest increase in their Social Security checks in 10 years through President Biden's leadership," the White House tweeted Monday.

The tweet was accompanied by a note from Twitter that states "readers added context" that "Seniors will receive a large Social Security benefit due to the annual cost of living adjustment, which is based on the inflation rate."

Don't these people even bother looking at what everybody knows that SS and Military retirement payments are linked to Inflation and the Cost Of Living.

Talking about Social Security.... if your man Trump really cared about it, he would have pushed for Republicans to pass a bill making SS funds unlimitted and thus never running out.

 

[senseamp]

If Republicans had their way, there would be no Social Security.

 

[pcgeek11]

OP, stop taking government handouts and do something with your life. Always sucking off the teet of the government, how sad you are.

My military retirement that I earned and my Social Security and Medicare that I was forced to pay for?

Those handouts?

Bite me.

 

[pcgeek11]

No, the SS pay increase is due to increased cost of living, which was not caused by the Biden Administration. Stop watching Fox News, it will rot what remains of your intelligence.

That was my point... The White House tweeted taking credit and had to take it down, because they were called out on it.

 

[brycejones]

That was my point... The White House tweeted taking credit and had to take it down, because they were called out on it.

Suddenly pcgeek is concerned about honesty from politicians Lol

 

[ch33zw1z]

Suddenly pcgeek is concerned about honesty from politicians Lol

I wonder what spurred this drastic change of events

 

[96Firebird]

My military retirement that I earned and my Social Security and Medicare that I was forced to pay for?

Those handouts?

Bite me.

Get a job old man.

 

[IronWing]

That doesn't matter, I'm not making comparisons between countries. That has no meaning. I'm looking at the insane spending driving inflation up in THIS Country.

It was the Fed printing money to prop up corporate spending and profits for fifteen years that drove inflation. Insane spending not found. Insane debt financed tax breaks for the hyper-wealthy very much found.

Edit: If deficits bother you then you should be pushing for vastly higher taxes on the rich. The taxes will fund spending and spending will come down when the people who matter are paying for it. As long as we pay rich people to borrow their money instead of taxing them, the people who bought our political system have no incentive to rein in deficits. They're making money on the deal.

 

[Fenixgoon]

My military retirement that I earned and my Social Security and Medicare that I was forced to pay for?

Those handouts?

Bite me.

yes, those handouts
military pay: government spending
military retirement: government spending
social security: government spending
medicare: government spending

more like you're biting the rest of us you leech! /S


but seriously, no, you're not a leech. recognize that you're benefiting from government spending and programs. there's nothing wrong with that. the whole goddamn point of the government is to help people and make their lives better in the first place. the idea of this minimalist government where everyone keeps most of their tax money is silly, because the government's job is to ensure some basic level of services and quality of life for everyone.

as i read some time ago now taxes are the cost of civilization

 

[pmv]

I saw this fun comparison this morning.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1588155156465590273

Crime is bigger in Republican run states but the voters don’t care because the media ignores this. Apparently DeSantis and Zeldin had a joint event where they talked about how crime ridden New York is. They of course did not note that Florida’s crime rate is higher.

You know, I think, just from introspection, i.e. my own experiences, maybe one does end up noticing crime more in a high-population-density environment.

It's not all about rates, in the sense of 'murders per capita', it's also about geography, or 'murders per square mile'.

There was a time when I got quite alarmed at the number of murders apparently occurring in my neighborhood. Partly that was because of the (then) police practice of putting up big yellow signs at murder scenes with 'appeal for information' on them (plus partly just from reading the local paper).

Whenever I walked anywhere I'd find myself passing at least one, maybe several, of those signs (a particularly alarming one was about someone being burned to death in the street). And I'd recognise the names of local blocks of flats or streets in the crime reports in the paper.

I started to think the murder rate was really scarily high. But then when I looked up the recorded per-capita figures for the area, they were not particularly high at all, certainly not by the standards of most _US_ cities.

In fact, when I looked at that data in detail, I realised, the murder scenes I'd been noticing on my walks past those big police-appeal signs, constituted every single murder there had been in the area, and when totted up and divided by the population, actually came out as quite a low per-capita rate.

What misled me was the geographical density of those crimes - per capita the rate was very low, but per-square mile it was a different story, precisely because the population density is very high.

In a low-population-density area, you probably wouldn't pass many murder scenes on an average stroll around the neighbourhood. So maybe in a crowded city you over-estimate how bad things are becuase you don't appreciate just how many _people_ there are around you?

 

[pmv]

That was my point... The White House tweeted taking credit and had to take it down, because they were called out on it.

Personally I'd concede you have a legit point about that, and move on, on the basis it's not a big deal in the history of political lies (indeed, as I said before, using figures without taking into account inflation is a very standard bit of political misrepresentation).

It doesn't really compare with, say, saying the evidence for Iraq having WMDs is 'clear and unequivocal' or with falsely saying an election was rigged.

 

[zinfamous]

My military retirement that I earned and my Social Security and Medicare that I was forced to pay for?

You voted for Republicans, again and again, and will continue to do so, of whom all make absolutely no secret about taking those SS benefits that "you were forced to pay for," hand them over to Wall street so that middle men can now siphon 2-3% of their value from you with zero penalty on their end, all the while tying your SS value to the holy stock market, while you sit their and watch the value of your "forced to pay for money" get tied to the same insane volatility that you claim to hate.

But you keep voting for this to happen and will never admit that this is exactly what you are doing. This is what the GOP is constantly promising for you, out in the open for decades now, and you keep eating it up.

You're a clown.

 

[zinfamous]

yes, those handouts
military pay: government spending
military retirement: government spending
social security: government spending
medicare: government spending

more like you're biting the rest of us you leech! /S


but seriously, no, you're not a leech. recognize that you're benefiting from government spending and programs. there's nothing wrong with that. the whole goddamn point of the government is to help people and make their lives better in the first place. the idea of this minimalist government where everyone keeps most of their tax money is silly, because the government's job is to ensure some basic level of services and quality of life for everyone.

as i read some time ago now taxes are the cost of civilization

In summary: PCgeek benefits from all the "entitlements" that he hates yet refuses to stop receiving them, and the determines that anyone else who is not him, benefiting from the same entitlements that he needs and absolutely votes to end, are the actual leeches. You can't make this stuff up, and here he is.

 

[ivwshane]

yes, those handouts
military pay: government spending
military retirement: government spending
social security: government spending
medicare: government spending

more like you're biting the rest of us you leech! /S


but seriously, no, you're not a leech. recognize that you're benefiting from government spending and programs. there's nothing wrong with that. the whole goddamn point of the government is to help people and make their lives better in the first place. the idea of this minimalist government where everyone keeps most of their tax money is silly, because the government's job is to ensure some basic level of services and quality of life for everyone.

as i read some time ago now taxes are the cost of civilization

I cannot upvote your comment enough!

Yes! Fuck yes! Stop being pissed off when government tries to help people, stop being upset when it’s not you getting the help. I have no problem with people complaining about government being inefficient or when policy doesn’t work, but let’s stop complaining about people getting help though.

 

[pcgeek11]

Get a job old man.

I don't need a job.

I have 2 Pensions, Social Security and my 401K.

 

[pcgeek11]

You voted for Republicans, again and again, and will continue to do so, of whom all make absolutely no secret about taking those SS benefits that "you were forced to pay for," hand them over to Wall street so that middle men can now siphon 2-3% of their value from you with zero penalty on their end, all the while tying your SS value to the holy stock market, while you sit their and watch the value of your "forced to pay for money" get tied to the same insane volatility that you claim to hate.

But you keep voting for this to happen and will never admit that this is exactly what you are doing. This is what the GOP is constantly promising for you, out in the open for decades now, and you keep eating it up.

You're a clown.

Four Pinochios...

 

[Indus]

Four Pinochios...

Well he does have a point. It's just you bought the sales pitch premise.

And sure you can claim that about dems and their pet projects but social security, medicare, medicaid are never going to be on their chopping block!

 

[Sunburn74]

Inflation is at a 40 year high because corporate profits are at a 70 year high.

I'm not sure this is true or fully accurate. Some sectors are doing extremely well, others not. As far as I can tell, all predictors are that almost 100% we will be in a recession in the next 12 months.

I think the major drivers of inflation are the war in Ukraine and rising energy costs consequential to that war (this affects absolutely everything), and increases in discretionary spending as a result of the COVID pandemic and lockdowns (basically a catch-up effect). I could be wrong but you can't blame it all on company profits. A rising tide doesn't lift all boats.

 

[pcgeek11]

Well he does have a point. It's just you bought the sales pitch premise.

And sure you can claim that about dems and their pet projects but social security, medicare, medicaid are never going to be on their chopping block!

They aren't on any chopping block.

 

[soundforbjt]

They aren't on any chopping block.

Go read Bush’s 2005 Inaugural Address and tell me republicans don’t have it on their minds.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

They aren't on any chopping block.

Nonsense, Trump tried to get rid of a payroll tax for Social Security to kill it off, but thankfully Biden saved us from it becoming permanent. He promised he'd kill it off had he won the election, and he'll do it in 2025 with support from GOP senators elected Tuesday if he is elected in 2024.