NO SOCIAL SECURITY "COST OF LIVING" IN 2016. THERE IS NO REASON  NOT TO PAY.

THE KUHNS REPORT

LAS VEGAS - Hello America, and how is the world treating you?

Senior citizens lose out again.  "CBS Money Watch" just reported that social security recipients will not receive a cost of living (COLA) increase for 2016. The feds say it is because of the "low gas prices." WOW! If you believe that I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. People, SEVENTY(70)   MILLION individuals who depend on the paltry annual increase to survive is again ripped off  and snookered by the government.

The federal employees and all public sector employee's across the nation will receive an annual COLA between two (2%) and eight(8%) percent in their paychecks in 2016. This because of their powerful  public employees and federal union representation. It should be noted the fed employees and many other public employees make an average $119,000 per year versus an average worker in the private sector who DOESN'T work for a government entity earning only $67,000.00 per year. It has been reported that public sector and federal employees make about seventy-eight (78%) percent more that  those working in the private sector for the same job.

Also remember that even Congress has an automatic built in "cost of living adjustment" (COLA) which they receive each and every year. Hell, Congress met and passed that law years ago, in the dead of night in a secret meeting, away from public scrutiny.  I suspect they did that to cover their butts so the American public would not know who voted themselves a raise. My gripe is these Washington lawmakers already make about $172,000 a year and the large salary and annual increases are paid to them even though they work only two to three months out of the entire year. They also set up for themselves a cushy, lucrative, obscene retirement and pension plan which they can tap for the rest of their lives after serving a few years in Washington (courtesy of us taxpayers) while all of the rest of us working outside the government have to toil, sweat and strain on a job for TWENTY years or more and then hope we saved enough to live out the rest of our years, in old age. These lawmakers also set themselves up with a health plan which no one in the private sector could even begin to touch. SIDE NOTE:  About the health care plan - -remember when Obama ran for president. He said he would give ALL  Americans the EXACT health care plan that HE and all lawmakers in Washington and Congress enjoy. That promise was a BIG! BIG! lie, wasn't it?

My point is that the Feds, including Congress and lawmakers on the hill look out for all public employees across the country but ignore the Americans that worked all their lives to build this country.

Folks, this is the  THIRD time in these many years that social security recipients were DENIED a "cost of living adjustment" (COLA) while  people working for the government in public employ continued to receive "cost of living" increases. Where is the equity? Where is the parity? There is none for us social security recipients, is there?

President Obama, congress people and even candidates running for president are always telling us "we are all in this together." Another lie, folks.  If in fact, we (all Americans)  "were in this together" the result would be : When socials security recipients are DENIED a cost of living" increase ALL public employees and federal and government workers across the nation would be DENIED a "cost  of living" increase also. I submit;  "What's good for the goose is good for the gander."Why is it they want senior citizens and disabled workers to FEEL the PAIN, while the feds and public employees feed at the trough filled with taxpayer money like a bunch of rabid hogs?

Personally, I have a few theories of why social security cost of living (COLA's) are being denied. Come on! Three times in the near past and the denials of the COLA's are becoming more frequent.
I suspect that it IS NOT because "GAS PRICES are so low, as reported in the media. Instead,one of my theories is that there may be a manipulation of the social security system possibly brought about by a group(s) and/or a few politicos in Washington who believe that not paying SEVENTY(70) MILLION people their social security increase will somehow begin to make the social security fund appear stable and in turn will help delay future failure of the entire social security system. Just imagine the BILLIONS of dollars the government is saving with just ONE instance of not paying out  the "cost of living? Folks, in the recent past they've already denied the "cost of living payout THREE times.

Final thought: I submit that if each  and every person in America had to pay into the social security system (that includes, federal employees, all city, county, and state public employees and Congress) everyone would be receiving a "cost of living" increase in 2016. Why should all of these government employees across the country be EXEMPT? If these people, who feel entitled, had to depend on social security as a retirement vehicle you can bet that the system would be protected. This "Us against them" mentality and the government public sector employees versus everybody else has got to STOP. - And, that's my opinion. Make your own decisions. Make up you own mind.

BRADLEY W. KUHNS, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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