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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama called on Congress Wednesday to approve $250 payments to more than 50 million seniors to make up for no increase in Social Security next year. The Social Security Administration is scheduled to announce Thursday that there will be no cost of living increase next year. By law, increases are pegged to inflation, which has been negative this year....

 

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Since inflation has been negative the zero increase actually makes seniors better off than in normal years when cost of living increase matches inflation.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm. - Milton Friedman

 

 

"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." - James Madison

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I'm just going to attempt to rob a bank and subsequently end up in prison where I have food, shelter and a cellmate who likes to beat me up for cigarette money.

 

That's my retirement plan.

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