5 things:
1. President Obama was highly indignant t'other day when the senate voted down the background registration for gun buyers. "Close to 90% of your constituents wanted this, but the Senate voted no." Hmm.
2. He doesn't seem to realize that close to 90% of HIS OWN supporters among the American public also wanted not see any cuts in Social Security. He, of course, is saying the chained CPI is NOT a cut. Hello? When you get less money, that's a cut! The first thing he did when he got into office in 2009 was say NO COLA until 2013 or so. That meant that I and a bunch of others on SS got no increases in our payments, despite the rising cost of just about everything.
3. But that disconnect between his voters' wishes and his actions did not seem to bother him at all. You don't have to be paranoid to get old in this country, but it helps!! Our elected representatives don't seem to give a damn about older voters except when they want us to vote for THEM.
4. Worse yet, it's old women who will suffer most from these "cuts" that nobody will admit are cuts. We didn't get the salaries the men did, so that means we kept on paying for SS out of each paycheck because our wages never reached the cutoff point.
5. Anyway, I'm pretty tired of the attitudes on Capitol Hill and in the White House. "Let them eat cake!" Indeed. And have I and others made this complaint before? Yes. Do you think anyone paid attention?
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