Quote Originally Posted by Moveon View Post
I guess I thought that most of the people posting in here were from KY as they have the highest number of post on their KY site. I forget that there are many other states.

I vote Democrat because my parents voted for the democrats mainly. But being on social security I was fearful that the GOP would do away with Medicare and Social Security. I'm disabled due to heart disease and depend on Medicaid to help me pay for the many medicines I need to survive.

The Dems have always been for the little people or poor more than the GOP. Look at what the GOP did when they were in power. They cut taxes for the rich. And that is about all they do. They do protect our 2nd amendment right and want to cut government and privatized most all government services. I don't think that would help me. '

I live out in the suburbs and have a nice home with a full acre of ground. I now own to houses. I will need to sell one and move out of that house. I have so much stuff to move and with my health problems I will have to hire a mover as there is no way I can do that type of work. So not all the dems live in the inner big cities.

Remember back in the late 50's a lot of white people moved out of the inner city and the black population started to expand and the burbs were developed. Now the inner city has an increased population of blacks and poor whites. Not all people living in the city are poor though. There are still many homes with people that have money living in the city.
The biggest thing you miss is the fact that NO ONE is touching Medicare and Social Security.

What you miss is that the Senior Citizen voting block is one of the largest voting blocks out there. Senior citizens are living longer than ever before, and that voting block is growing steadily.

THEY will vote for the money, especially if they are on Medicare and Social Security.

Democrats quite effectively use scare tactics to scare seniors like you into believing those evil republicans are gonna take Social Security and Medicare away. In reality, YOU JUST GOT the largest raise in Social Security ever. And guess what Biden or Trump or republican or democrats didn't do that........IT is a triggered COLA.

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History of Automatic Cost-Of-Living Adjustments (COLA)
The purpose of the COLA is to ensure that the purchasing power of Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits is not eroded by inflation. It is based on the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) from the third quarter of the last year a COLA was determined to the third quarter of the current year. If there is no increase, there can be no COLA.

The CPI-W is determined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Department of Labor. By law, it is the official measure used by the Social Security Administration to calculate COLAs.

Congress enacted the COLA provision as part of the 1972 Social Security Amendments, and automatic annual COLAs began in 1975. Before that, benefits were increased only when Congress enacted special legislation.

Beginning in 1975, Social Security started automatic annual cost-of-living allowances. The change was enacted by legislation that ties COLAs to the annual increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI-W).
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