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Poll shows support for Social Security bonus

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Chris Bridges

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Tuesday, November 16. 2010

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Last week’s BarrowJournal.com poll asked participants if the government should issue a $250 bonus payment to Social Security recipients to compensate for the lack of a cost of living adjustment.

Fifty-five percent of respondents favor the bonus payment while 45 percent are opposed to the estimated $14.5 billion expenditure.

The Social Security Administration recently announced that it would not make a cost of living adjustment for the second year in a row. Some lawmakers have proposed issuing “economic recovery payments” to help Social Security recipients make ends meet.

The proposal has yet to go before Congress for a vote.

This week’s poll asks if parents should be notified when an arrest or other serious incident takes place at their child’s school. Some area parents have complained that school officials do not provide information regarding school security matters.

Results will be published in the Nov. 17 edition of the Barrow Journal.

A new poll is posted each week on www.BarrowJournal.com.

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#1 ridiculous on 11/16/10 at 02:26 PM [Reply]

Poll shows most people would like to pick their neighbor's pocket of $250.

Big news.

How about getting your own $250 and not taking it by force from me?

#1.1 Anonymous on 11/16/10 at 09:46 PM [Reply]

pick their neighbors pocket? I worked for my benefits, and I would bet I paid more into s.s. than I will ever get back. So hopefully you will never become disabled, but if you do, I hope you remember that statement when you feel you deserve more than the pennies you will get versus what you paid in. Do every one a favor and don't let your ignorance show

#1.2 Anonymous on 11/16/10 at 11:03 PM [Reply]

Try working all your life and paying into the SS system. Then, when you turn 65 being told you don't get your COLA because the cost of living hasn't gone up. Of course the cost of living has gone up. It's a governement dodge. Where am I supposed to get my own $250 ? I don't want to pick anyone's pocket. I want to get what I was promised.

#1.2.1 Anonymous on 11/17/10 at 04:47 PM [Reply]

Try working all your life, paying a large portion of what you make into SS and then when you reach the age of retirement (currently 67) that there is NO MONEY, so sorry but the ponzi scheme imploded.

That's what I expect to happen. I don't see SS being there for me when I retire and I'm sure the age of retirement will have gone up from 67 to 75 or 80!!!!!

So not only am I paying for your retirement, I'm saving for mine -- something you probably should have done as well

#2 Anonymous on 11/16/10 at 04:01 PM [Reply]

Oh Please, of course the majority of respondents were going to support it -- After all they are receive SS benefits. That's like asking me if I want my company to give all us employees a $250.00 Christmas bonus. Of course we would vote yes.

A BETTER poll would have been to differentiated the responses by age group.

#2.1 Anonymous on 11/16/10 at 09:50 PM [Reply]

Peoples ignorance never ceases to amaze me. You deserve to live in Winder.

#3 Anonymous on 11/17/10 at 03:14 PM [Reply]

the money you put into SS has long been gone, spent by the fatcats in DC for vote buying schemes. the money you are recieving now is put in buy the current work force.
who will never see a dime from SS.
Buy the time I am elidgeble for SS (10yrs) that ponzi scheme will have already collapsed.

#4 metro on 11/17/10 at 03:42 PM [Reply]

Here we go again...the spoiled rotten, fat baby boomers feathering their beds at the expense of the tax payers once again....

#4.1 Anonymous on 11/17/10 at 10:18 PM [Reply]

Yes. You are so right. "The spoiled rotten fat baby boomers". We worked our tails off at jobs your generation wouldn't be able to handle. Hard labor. And, we actually had to use our minds. We didn't have the computer age to do it for us. Now, that our bodies are worn out, we just want what we were promised. "Spoiled rotten"? We live on less in a month than you live on in a week. But, we are the older generation. We've learned how to make do while we were supporting your generation so you could have the soft life.

#5 dawn full er on 11/17/10 at 10:27 PM [Reply]

i feel that it is true there will be no ss by the time i get 65, due to the people from other countries who come here at 65 years old never paying into ss and they get a check, think about it people, they told us if we the US legals, if we pay into it we will have it, but they let anyone have it that did not pay into the system, think about that, if you want to know where your dollars go really check into it, also there are a lot of ssi people who are not disabled, they work under the table and sell their pain meds!!!
now think about that

#5.1 Anonymous on 11/18/10 at 04:22 PM [Reply]

So true. The illegals are getting what we paid into all these years. And, I have seen a lot on disability that earned big sums under the counter. I stood in line behind a woman today. Could show a valid Ga. drivers license and was using food stamps. Didn't speak a word of English. Looked to be about 55 or 60. --- I think I am going to bow out of this discussion. I feel like I am having a battle of wits with unarmed people. "No COLA because there was no inflation". Who does your shopping? --- And a 401K. Never even heard of those until half way through my working life. And, didn't work for companies that offered them. I wish I would have saved. That was my bad. But, I paid for over 40 years into SS as did my spouse.

#6 still ridiculous on 11/18/10 at 09:35 AM [Reply]

Why do you 'deserve' the $250? It's not your money. There is nothing left of what you paid in. It's mine and others. I may wish to give you $250 but I don't want the government taking it by force and giving to people who haven't earned it.

There was no COLA because there was no inflation. What's hard to understand about that?

No one owes you anything. Stop demanding that people give you what they have earned.

#7 anonymous on 11/18/10 at 09:38 AM [Reply]

Please note that the country started to decline when people like the above understood that they didn't have to be responsible for their own lives but could demand that the feds could take from others to give to them.

#8 TheLaw on 11/18/10 at 03:06 PM [Reply]

I've been paying into SS for 20 years. I have at least 30 more years to work. I have no delusions that I will get anything out of the money I have paid into SS. I pay large sums into my 401K and other means of savings.

All the money I have paid into SS is gone. I will never see it again.

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