For the first time in decades there will be no cost of living adjustment (COLA) for SSI recipients. Instead, Obama has proposed a one time $250 payment to all recipients. Just enough, most likely, for the SSI recipients to catch up on some late bills. Here's a little list of where Granny's money is going:
Aid to Afghanistan $7.5 Billion
Space ship that NASA crashed into moon $79 million
Total cost of Iraq War to date: $690,951,524,000.
Mess doesn't usually get "political" but this no COLA crap got us HOT. Thanks for working hard all your life, folks. Hope you can still afford a TV or a newspaper so you can watch where your money is going! Let's see if the people who work at SSI get a god damn COLA this year.
As a prominent escort to many noted elderly widows in San Antonio, I can assure Mess that freezing their cola is a great idea. Drinking it hot can cause gas, and nothing is more horrendous than a senior citizen with gas. Why, just this morning I
ReplyDeletetold my latest decrepit doyenne, Lil O'Lady, heiress to the White Only Liquid Bleach fortune, "Put the Pepsi in the icebox before you drink it, Lil. Watch another episode of MURDER SHE WROTE, listen to your Liberace records, and read a little Mario Puzo, and your beverage will be chilled shortly."
Sincerely,
William P. Massengill III