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<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/> Democrats
Make a $250 Pitch to Senior Voters
<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/democrats-make-a-250-pitch-to-senior-voters/>
*Scotty Starnes
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If you can't win voters over with your failed, bankrupting America policies,
buy their vote. This is the tactic Democrats are using for November. They
couldn't pass a budget before the election but they are trying to figure out
a way to pay 52 million Social Security recipients $250, since senior
citizens have gone two years without a 'cost of living adjustment, (COLA),
for the first time in the history of Social Security.
If you can't fool them, buy them off.
CNSNews.com
<http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/democrats-make-250-pitch-senior-voters>
reports:
*Democrats are making a pre-election pitch to give Social Security
recipients a one-time payment of $250, part of a larger effort to convince
senior voters that their party, and not Republicans, will best look out for
the 58 million people who get the government retirement and disability
benefits. *
*The $250 check is meant to make up for a second year without a
cost-of-living increase due to low inflation.*
President Barack Obama has urged Congress to approve the $250 payment. House
and Senate Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid say they will
bring up the legislation when lawmakers return for the lame-duck session in
November. In the meantime, Democrats are using the proposal to augment their
campaign pitch that Republicans would undermine Social Security.
"Instead of helping seniors," Pelosi's office said, "Republicans, backed by
their allies on Wall Street, are threatening to privatize and cut Social
Security, just as they tried to do under President Bush."
Liberal Factcheck.org
<http://www.factcheck.org/2010/08/obamas-latest-social-security-whopper/>exposed
this lie, but then again, Democrats are know to use facts or logic when
trying to buy votes.
Added Reid, "The only thing standing in the way of America's seniors
receiving this critical support are Senate Republicans."
*Actually, 12 Democrats and one independent who aligns himself with
Democrats joined 37 Republicans in blocking the $250 bonus when Senate voted
on the issue last March*. Two of the Senate Democrats who voted against it
then, Michael Bennet of Colorado and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, are engaged
in tough campaign battles to keep their seats.
*Democratic leaders in the House never brought the issue up for a vote.
Obama first asked Congress for the $250 payment last February.*
"It's clearly a last-ditch election-year Hail Mary," said Michael Steel, a
spokesman for House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio. If supplementing
the incomes of seniors was really a priority, he said, Democrats would have
acted on it before they adjourned for the campaign.
*Democrats may have the votes in the House to push through the measure,
although still unanswered is how they plan to cover the estimated $13
billion to $14 billion cost of giving $250 to each of more than 50 million
Social Security beneficiaries. Obama hasn't offered any suggestions and the
Senate measure last March was rejected 47-50 primarily because it would have
stacked the cost on top of the nearly $12 trillion federal debt.*
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