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CountAllVotes

(21,691 posts)
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 12:44 PM Mar 4

It is Senior Citizen day at the local health food store!

I'm off to buy some 1. milk, 2. oatmeal (and lots of it) and 3. nothing else!

I wonder if my $23.00 in food stamps is on my card? Along with the 10% discount, I'm in the black! Yippee!

I never know month-to-month.

It is better than a big fat zero!

This is what I *get* after working since the age of 16 years old, a small amount of Social Security and

$23 in food stamps.

How lucky can one get?





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It is Senior Citizen day at the local health food store! (Original Post) CountAllVotes Mar 4 OP
Sad, isn't it? ...and now they're telling us to save as much as we can because we may LoisB Mar 4 #1
It is a disgrace CountAllVotes Mar 4 #2
'Disgrace" is the absolutely correct word. LoisB Mar 4 #3
Yes indeed CountAllVotes Mar 4 #4
Found CountAllVotes Mar 4 #5

LoisB

(10,173 posts)
1. Sad, isn't it? ...and now they're telling us to save as much as we can because we may
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 01:43 PM
Mar 4

have disruptions in Social Security payments.

CountAllVotes

(21,691 posts)
2. It is a disgrace
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 01:52 PM
Mar 4

Just wait until the MAGAS take a cut. They get a lot more than I do which is not a feat to contend with as a person that is disabled and unable to work and too old to work!

The one I know of I have disemboweled (former executor that doesn't know it!).

Done.

It was not difficult at all.

In fact, good riddance.

The only thing these people care about is money.

They base the value of a President on money, nothing else.



CountAllVotes

(21,691 posts)
4. Yes indeed
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 02:27 PM
Mar 4

It was a disgrace to find out that my executor is now a Red Hat freak!

She's reaping the system for all she can get and is JEALOUS of ME because PG&E gave me a new refrigerator because the old one was 25 years old and ready to die. I milking the system in her reality while she's living in a house that was obtained for free! I am the waste and fraud!

How sickening!

So glad to get rid of this parasite on America!



CountAllVotes

(21,691 posts)
5. Found
Tue Mar 4, 2025, 02:39 PM
Mar 4

Former Social Security commissioner Martin O'Malley warned that payments to beneficiaries could be interrupted within 30 days as a result of changes recommended by the advisory Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

DOGE, which was tasked by Donald Trump with shrinking the size of the government and cutting waste in the federal budget, is reportedly planning on slashing the Social Security Administration (SSA) workforce by half, in a move that could dramatically impact the program.

"Ultimately, you're going to see the system collapse and an interruption of benefits," O'Malley told CNBC of the DOGE cuts. "I believe you will see that within the next 30 to 90 days."

https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-benefits-could-face-interruption-within-30-days-2039144

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I guess I better stock up on oatmeal.

I have a message for the man that opened the door for me and I said thank you too. After I said that, he told me to vote for Donald tRUMP for president.

I didn't say a word, I just walked away.

I should have told him to FUCK OFF!



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