Social Security benefits have seniors worried

I am NOT 62 or 65 years old "YET", but I WILL be along with you jerks (and YOU know who you are) I am no different than most that are sliding to the "elderly age" I have paid and paid and freaking paid since I was 14 years old and I got my first after school job. Most of you have done much the same. Yet some of you say that older Americans that worked hard for the minimum wage for so many years should just hurry up and die? Who are you? Do you have a life? Do you just sit on you computer and write nasty comments? You know who you are Surf and others, is there any joy or happiness in your lives? Do you have any friends or are you the one not invited to "Christmas Dinner" by your own family? Are you going to get "Old" someday, do you even think of anyone except yourself..EVER? You people are indeed a SAD piece of work and please do not Whine when your time comes, there might be people on here telling you to suck it up and Hurry up. People just like you. People who have no one. COMMON, you are the exception, many agree and enjoy you on here.

HEY COMMONSENSENOTC..., I'm trying to get a handle on what your politics are. I see your post all over the place. Are you far left , far right, drifting in the middle. Some of your post I agree with the others I think that you have lost your mind.The reason that I say this is that I'm right of the middle, I didn't say far right.Ten years ago I had to have surgury on my lower back for a bone spur that was about 2/3 of the way around my spinal cord and putting pressure on my spinal cord which had a serious effect on my walking. I had to sign a paper that said that it did not happen while on the job. And I did not think that it did,so I signed it. When I had the surgury the doctor's found two ruptured disc,one above the bone spur and one below the bone spur,that had to have happened on the job since I had been working there for ten years at the time and had been having low back problems for a long time. After returning to work on 12/01/2001 I was fired on 12/30/2001. The Co. fired me for stealing a waste pump that they found two weeks later. The only thing that saved me was SSD. In NC they can fire you for any reason and there is very little you can do about it.My wife faced the same thing about four years later, she was fired after having surgury from an injury at Food Lion. She was fired for doing what she had been traind to do about 12 years earlier.Now I'm on SSD AND SHE Has been trying for about 3 years to get it. We have lost almost everything before they would step in and help her.I can't get anything because I make to much from SSD even though I owe around 65,000.00 in CC,hospital pharmacy and many others such as food insurance,taxes,etc.And as a RVN veteran I will not feel disgrased taking a dime from the GOV. S/F ROGER FLEMING ertran696

Well the men and women on the hill didn't care about that , they voted themself's a raise. What do you say about that???????????????? S/F ROGER FLEMING

This IDIOT OBAMA and his menions only bring disgrace,treason,and everything he has said and done has been a miscarriage of justice to this country. S/F ROGER FLEMING

So because what, the cost of gas went down we are supposed to believe there was no increase in the cost of living this year? I can name several things I bought in grocery shopping this week that not only cost more than they did last year but actually more than they did just a few months ago. If the cost of living is decreasing, other than in fuel costs I don't know where it is at. As regards seniors, Most of them have worked longer and harder than anyone posting their snide remarks on this page. They deserve their benefits more so than the trash in public housing breeding one illegitimate child after the other each year for the taxpayers to support and so that they do not have to get off their lazy behinds and work. And what is the comment in one of these posts about them dying off sooner? Maybe that is the plan. After all the demos health care plan calls for massive cuts in Medicare funding when the society is rapidly aging. And of course the one thing it will cover is the end of life counseling to encourage people to just give up and die instead of being a further drain on our resources. Maybe that is Obama's plan. Maybe he envisions a "Logan's Run" type of society. Reach a certain age and you are gone. Of course, at some point, that will include all of you.

No inflation = no COLA. You don't deserve a raise just because you've made it another year. You get a cost of living adjustment when the cost of living rises. It hasn't....so you don't get a COLA this year. It really IS that simple. Maybe Obama and Pelosi will give you another ridiculous $250 gratuity to hope that you'll vote for the Socialists.

This is a sad world we live in when we can't take care of the old, when all they have done is worked their whole life. Instead of "cash for clunkers" we should be pushing "raises for the really old"

How is it that old people deserve more than anyone else. My disability checks aren't jumping to the cost of living. No one is giving more food stamps because my steak has jumped 72 cents a pound. And it's not like these old people have anything to do or any place to go. As long as Dancing with the Stars or Faux News is on TV they are fine. Best I can tell most of these people could care less, they don't know the difference between cat food and tuna. I mean how much we talking about anyway, $800 a month? Who can live off of that? Sooner they go the better I guess, maybe that's the plan.

I love seniors but really how many of us paying into social secuirty get a yearly cost of living raise??? Just something to think about!

Our society continues to neglect the elderly on the local, state and federal level through reduced benefits and higher taxes.After years of hard work , we are betraying this generation.The $ 250.00 is a political gimmick by the Obama Administration to deflect criticism.The federal government has bankrupt our nation through incompetence and corruption and average working Americans , who have always played by the rules ,are being asked to foot the bill.Expect to see a continued deterioration in your standard of living. This movement towards socialism that has slowly crept along for years ,is now being expedited by King Obama.Every American's standard of living will continue to fall because our nation still has not addressed the fundamental problems that plague us. No politician will ever reveal the truth, Republican or Democrat ,because there would a harsh reality about the state of our nation. So expect the political gimmicks to continue. This enables them to bide time until the next election cycle.Social Security is a socialist program and a Ponzi scheme but many have paid in and want a return. Americans will have to eventually wean themselves off this program.It will be 25 more years before I am a recipient of Social Security and I am making plans not to depend on it.Social Security will not survive another 25 years!

I hate to say it but, "I told you so !" When people were running around saying how good Hussein Obama would be for our country, many of us were trying to help others to "see the light." So far, I agree with all the other commentators, like stop supporting all of the illegals and the "baby factories" and on and on and on. Let us pray for our country.

Why don't we cut the WELFARE benefits and give the elderly who very likely worked hard ALL their lives the money they need to survive in their later years. What is wrong with these damn people, it is ridiculous that the elderly have to suffer and the illegals and lazy welfare mothers get increases in their benefits all the time.

Is Obama willing to admit that this more or less shows that the government's reported inflation numbers are bunk? There's a typo in the article, also: "The White House says the extra $250 payments will cost the government more than $13 billion" That should read: "The White House says the extra $250 payments will cost the TAXPAYERS more than $13 billion."

how many of these senior citizens voted for the annointed one last fall? How many believed him when he made all those outlandish promises? How many will rush to sign up for the free "end of life" counseling should he get his health care plan past the Legislators? Let's hope everyone thinks before they vote again; both on a national, state, and local level.