[buggyone]

In order to respond to the quote of a different thread, I am quoting it here.

"We came up with hundreds of billions $$$ to bail out the banks but need to take food out of the mouths of people that worked hard their whole lives."

Take food out of the mouths of people that worked hard their whole lives?? If someone worked hard their whole life, they would not be living only on Social Security. They would have saved money for retirement and would be using Social Security as a SUPPLEMENT for their retirement savings.

Secondly, it seems as though the poster was saying that TARP (bank bailouts) was the idea of the current administration.

Remember, also, that the proposed Social Security "reduction" is only a fraction of a percent less in the Cost of Living Adjustment made each year. SS recepients will still get an increase each year.